Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in C# 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) [Paperback]

Nick Symmonds (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590596811 | ISBN-13: 978-1590596814 | Publication Date: June 26, 2006 | Edition: 1

Are you tasked with creating and maintaining a web presence? Do you suspect that there is a better way to manage business internally? Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in C# 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express is for you. It leads you through the emerging world of web portals by applying the most user-friendly and current development software, like C# Express and the powerful, flexible DotNetNuke. You will learn to create the professional web presence your company needs.

The book takes you through the steps necessary to get an internal web portal running for employee use. If you have some programming experience and creativity, this book will help you expand your business presence in a short amount of time. It features simple explanations and proof-of-concept examples throughout. The book concludes with the creation of a web portlet that you can plug into an external website for a web presence.

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About the Author

Nick Symmonds works for the Integrated System Solutions division of Ingersoll-Rand, developing and integrating security software. He started his professional life as an electronics technician. While getting his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hartford, he started to gravitate toward programming. Nick has spent quite a few years programming in assembly, C, C++, and Visual Basic. Recently, he has latched onto .NET like a lamprey and loves digging into the .NET core. Nick has written several articles on programming and has three books out: Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .NET (Apress, 2002), GDI+ Programming in C# and VB .NET (Apress, 2002), and Data Entry and Validation with C# and VB .NET Windows Forms (Apress, 2003). He lives with his family in the northwest hills of Connecticut and has recently become addicted to golf and road cycling. He also enjoys woodworking, hiking, and exploring the hills on his motorcycle.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (June 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590596811
• ISBN-13: 978-1590596814
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,383,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not enough, July 16, 2006

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Merlin (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in C# 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

Well. If someone is going to buy a book on DotNetNuke in C#, probably that person is very unlikely to need a basic intro on the language.
So, the topic actually starts at page 143 (which on a ~370 pages book it almost means half of it).
Regretfully, I bought it since it has a chapter on modules programming in C# (DotNetNuke uses VB, so I liked the possibility of using another language). Wrong, the initial instructions corrupted my configuration files and the chapter got confusing. I basically ended up closing the book, got the official DotNetNuke documentation and figure things out on my own. I could have saved 40 dollars.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tries to do way too much, June 28, 2006

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C. T. MCANALLY "cmcanally" (Carrollton, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in C# 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

This book advertises that it is first and foremost about DotNetNuke 4.0, and it is the first book out on 4.0. That should have told me something. The book focuses on teaching you how to use and install, Dot Net 2.0, Visual Web Developer Express, and it has a chapter teaching you how to use C#. The first two should already be understood by a person trying to setup and use DotNetNuke.

C# is introduced and described, as I said earlier, in one chapter. However you can't teach C# in one chapter. What results is a mishmash of advanced and beginning topics with nothing covered in depth.

With so much devoted to C#, VWD, Dot Net 2.0, DotNetNuke gets short shift and no 4.0 topic is covered in enough depth. Simply put he doesn't do enough with DotNet Nuke and too much with peripheral topics.

The big issues, Module Development, Skinning and site administration are just not adequately covered.

Wait for other books on DotNetNuke. Hopefully they'll do a better job as most are written by members of the development team.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very, very, very novice book, July 1, 2006

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Juan Jesus Saez Soto (Murcia, Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in C# 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

This is a book for very beginners. The title deceives saying that it is from novice to professionals. Don't waste your money.

Maybe have been too generous evaluating it with two stars.