Portal SDK News

- Added security checks for modules on each tab in DefaultHandler.
- Removed the duplicate DefaultHandler.IsInRole method. The code now uses
PortalUtility.IsInRole.
- Added a call to LoadPortalSettings() in DefaultRedirector.aspx.cs. This will
reload the site's information from the database, which should improve debugging.
- Added Save() methods to each of the business objects. In some instances, new
stored procedures were necessary to reset all roles when calling Save(). The
following procedures were added:
DeleteAccountRoleByAccount
DeleteModuleRoleByModule
DeleteTabRoleByTab
Corresponding methods were added to the data tier classes.
- Corrected a consistency problem in which some of the data tier classes were
incorrectly using Insert instead of AddXxx.
- Changed the marker interface on DefaultHandler from IRequiresSessionState to
IReadOnlySessionState.
- Added a diagram (Core Tables) of the core portal tables to the database.
- Renamed the PortalSDK.Controls directory to Controls.
- There was no solution file for the PortalSDK.Controls project, so one was added.
- Changed several of the business objects to use a while loop instead of an if
statement in their Load() method.
- A second, more advanced sample control was added that performs an XSL
transformation.

The code for the alpha release is now available. Check the readme.txt file in the documents folder for instructions on how to set it up.

The data tier and most of the display business logic has been written. I'm hoping to have the presentation portions complete before Christmas.