Albadit/DnnManager.NET

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# DNN Manager **Run DNN sites on your Windows PC without the IIS and SQL Server chores.** DNN Manager is a desktop app for DNN (DotNetNuke) developers. It creates a working DNN site in one step and then manages every site in your IIS from a single window - start, stop, logs, terminal, database - in the style of Docker Desktop. [**Download**](https://github.com/Albadit/DnnManager.NET/releases/latest) · [User guide](.docs/user-guide.md) · [Development](.docs/development.md) · [Architecture](.docs/architecture.md) · [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) ## Why A local DNN site by hand means: download a release, unzip it, create an IIS site and app pool, set folder permissions, create a database and a login, edit `web.config` and click through DNN's install wizard. And once it runs, IIS puts it to sleep after 20 minutes, so the next page takes half a minute again. DNN Manager does all of that for you - and undoes it just as easily: removing a project takes its IIS site, folder and database with it. ## What you get - **A new site in one click** - pick a DNN version from GitHub, give it a name, **Create project**. The first visit shows your site, signed in as the host account you chose - no install wizard. - **Every IIS site in one table** - live status, CPU, memory, DNN version and database. Changes made in IIS Manager show up by themselves, no Refresh. - **Start, stop, restart or remove** one site or several at once. - **Keep warm** - no more slow first page: chosen sites are kept awake with a tiny request every few minutes. - **Import, export and clone** sites as `.zip` + `.bacpac`, also from Azure SQL. - **Host an existing folder** - the IIS site and database for code you already have. - **A bottom panel like VS Code's** - Output, live DNN / IIS / Windows logs, and terminals (PowerShell, Command Prompt, Git Bash) opened in a project's folder. - **Open with…** Visual Studio, VS Code, Rider, Cursor and others, or SQL Server Management Studio signed in to the site's database. - **Your choice of database** - a SQL Server container it sets up in Docker for you, your own SQL Server / SQL Server Express, or a LocalDB file. - **Help built in, in plain words** - a step-by-step getting started guide on the first start, a tour of the window, **F1** help for every page and tooltips that say what each button does. - **Light and dark theme**, UI scaling, and an efficiency mode that keeps the app idle while you aren't looking at it. ## Quick start 1. Download `DnnManager_Setup-<version>-x64.exe` from [Releases](https://github.com/Albadit/DnnManager.NET/releases/latest) and run it - it asks for administrator rights and installs for all users, into Program Files. 2. Start **DNN Manager** and accept the UAC prompt - it manages IIS, so it runs as Administrator. The **Getting started** guide opens and explains the rest - **Skip guide** if you know your way; the **?** at the top right opens it again. 3. Open **Settings** (the gear): **IIS → Set up IIS** enables the Windows features DNN needs, and **Docker container → Set up docker-compose** creates the SQL Server container. Using your own SQL Server instead? Pick it under **Database server**. 4. Click **New project**, enter a name, pick a DNN version and press **Create project**. When it's done, open `http://<name>.dnndev.me` - `dnndev.me` points to your own PC, and DNN Manager puts the name in the hosts file too, so it opens without internet (a custom domain like `shop.test` works the same way - see [Host names and working offline](.docs/user-guide.md#host-names-and-working-offline)). The [user guide](.docs/user-guide.md) walks through every page, menu and setting. ## Requirements - Windows 10 / 11 or Windows Server, with IIS (DNN Manager can enable it) - An account that can run programs as Administrator - For the default database: Docker Desktop with Linux containers - or any SQL Server, SQL Server Express or LocalDB instead ## Build from source You need the [.NET 10 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/10.0). ```bash git clone https://github.com/Albadit/DnnManager.NET.git cd DnnManager.NET dotnet run # builds and starts the app (asks for admin rights) dotnet test tests/DnnManager.IntegrationTests --filter "TestCategory!=Integration" # fast tests ``` Debugging, the conventions and how to extend it are in [.docs/development.md](.docs/development.md); the tests in [.docs/testing.md](.docs/testing.md); publishing and the installer in [.docs/releasing.md](.docs/releasing.md). ## How it's built A WPF app on .NET 10, laid out as Clean Architecture in a single project: | Layer | What it holds | |---|---| | `DnnManager.Presentation` | WPF windows, pages, themes and the app's start-up | | `DnnManager.Application` | Use cases (new project, import, clone, remove…) and the interfaces they need | | `DnnManager.Infrastructure` | IIS, Docker, SQL Server, GitHub releases, settings, keep warm, logs | | `DnnManager.Domain` | Plain records, no dependencies | Domain and Application don't depend on WPF or Infrastructure (a test, `LayeringTests`, keeps it so); use cases reach IIS, SQL Server and the file system through interfaces. The layers, how an operation runs, how the window stays current and a map from each feature to its code are in [.docs/architecture.md](.docs/architecture.md). ## Documentation | For | Document | What's in it | |---|---|---| | Users | [User guide](.docs/user-guide.md) | The window, every page and menu, automatic DNN setup, import / host / clone, keep warm, backups, limitations | | | [Configuration](.docs/configuration.md) | `Documents\DnnManager` and its database, every settings key, environment variables | | | [Troubleshooting](.docs/troubleshooting.md) | Known problems, their causes and fixes | | Developers | [Development](.docs/development.md) | Prerequisites, build, run, debugging, conventions, extending | | | [Architecture](.docs/architecture.md) | Layers, how an operation runs, live updates, project layout, design decisions, component map | | | [Upgrading DNN](.docs/dnn-upgrades.md) | DNN's upgrade path, the analyser, backups, each step, the checks, rollback, the knowledge base, what was tested | | | [Testing](.docs/testing.md) | The fast and the integration tests, adding a test | | | [Releasing](.docs/releasing.md) | Version, changelog, portable exe, installer and launcher; the release workflow (built, tested, tried and published from the tag, once a reviewer approves); code signing (off until set up); CI and checksums; what to do about a bad release | | | [Security](.docs/security.md) | Administrator rights, secrets, what DNN Manager deletes, network exposure, open risks | | Everyone | [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) | What changed in each version | | | [Release notes](.docs/release-notes/) | The notes of every GitHub release, one file per version | ## Contributing Issues and pull requests are welcome. Before opening a pull request, run the fast tests, add a line to [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) under *Unreleased*, and update the docs when behaviour changes. Follow the conventions in [.docs/development.md](.docs/development.md#conventions). ## License [MIT](LICENSE). The terminal icons and keep warm's flame are [Codicons](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-codicons) by Microsoft, licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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