This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a basic Windows Forms application to test remote authentication and authorization when communicating with a DNN CMS web portal using its web services framework / Web API. This is for development and educational purposes only running locally. You will at least want to make sure that you have SSL enabled for your DNN Web Services in a real world scenario.

When building the DotNetNuke Web Services API controllers, I want to use this REST convention for the endpoints to access a resource such as the Chinook database. Note: My DotNetNuke website is running under IIS 7.5 with “dnn7” as the host name binding. Only the request method, url, protocol, content-type and content-body are included in request examples below.

For this project, you will need to have access to the Chinook SQL Server Database.