Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in .NET) [Paperback]

Nick Symmonds (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590597672 | ISBN-13: 978-1590597675 | Publication Date: November 30, 2006 | Edition: 1

DotNetNuke is a programming framework that assists in creating and deploying web projects in ASP.NET 2.0. Its ease of use means that non-programmers can take advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 features when building a web site, thus allowing many more people to work on dynamic web sites. It integrates with many of Microsoft's other free products, such as SQL Server 2005 Express, making it a powerful and attractive option when developing web sites.

Uniquely, this book contains detailed instructions for the installation of DotNetNuke, Visual Web Developer, and SQL Server 2005. This ensures that every reader, no matter what their level or ability, has a working suite of tools that will stand them in good stead for the rest of the book and their ASP.NET 2.0 careers. The rest of the book contains tutorials on how to create and publish an ASP.NET 2.0 website written in Visual Basic 2005, taking care not to exclude any of the non-programmers who will be using the book to get up to speed on DotNetNuke.

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"This book is an introduction to Visual Studio (VS) 2005, Visual Web Developer (VWD), and DotNetNuke (DNN). … The table of contents is well done. The index is adequate … . The material is well presented. … I recommend this book to those who want to use DNN … ." (C. A. Wolfe, Computing Reviews, Vol. 50 (1), January, 2009)

About the Author

Nick Symmonds works for the IntegratedSystem Solutions division of Ingersoll-Rand, developing and integrating security software. He started out 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 four books currently out: Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .NET (Apress, 2002); GDI+ Programming in C# and VB .NET (Apress, 2002); Data Entry and Validation with C# and VB .NET Windows Forms (Apress, 2003); and Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in C# 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express (Apress, 2006).

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. We want to identify as many opportunities as possible surrounding this book and its technology cluster, events, resources, themes, broadcast opportunities, websites, etc. that could help promote the book and get it seen by the end-customer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (November 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597672
• ISBN-13: 978-1590597675
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,375,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good primer, June 2, 2007

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Kevin Mitchell (Riverside, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

This is a very good introduction to DotNetNuke. It will help you install DNN on you own machine and guide you through building a simple website.

If you know a little about programming in VB and know something about HTML and CSS, this book will show you how to write your own DNN modules and create your own DNN skins and containers. You won't learn how to write complex modules or elaborate skins but you'll learn the basics.

If you already know how to install DNN and how to create DNN modules and skins, this book is not for you.

If you know nothing about programming in VB and know nothing about HTML, then you should probably learn about them before you tackle this book.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To the point, February 20, 2007

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This review is from: Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

It's not for the complete novice and it won't teach you how to code. But it will get you up and going with VWD and DNN. Well written with good screenshots. He also takes you through the process of creating modules. It's a good primer and was what I was looking for.

1.0 out of 5 stars Not useful title anymore, March 25, 2009

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A. Cetin (Warsaw, Poland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

This book has easy to follow language, especially if you are like me, who was coding WinForm, and trying to learn web programming and trying to learn dnn as a platform, until you come to Chapter 7, you feel that you start to learn something, and you have nice kickoff for dnn module development. But unfortunately it is the end of the story there. On Chapter 7, which starts to show you how to develop a module in dnn, it is not working in recent versions of DNN (4.9.2 and 5.0.1)! So, it is impossible to continue. Unfortunately, the author also looks like he is not interested in this book anymore, as there is no correct errata in the publisher's website about this error. I don't recommend this book anyone who is trying to learn module development in dnn, look for other sources (if you can find, please let me know also).