Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

by Nick Symmonds (Author)
Key Phrases: image header, page functions, skin type, Fixed Width, Internet Explorer, End Get Set (more...)

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Product Description

DotNetNuke is a programming framework that helps you create and deploy web projects in ASP.NET 2.0. Its ease of use means that even nonprogrammers can take advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 features when building a web site. It integrates with many of Microsofts other free products like SQL Server 2005 Express, which makes it a powerful and attractive option for developing web sites.

Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express contains detailed instructions for the installation of DotNetNuke, Visual Web Developer, and SQL Server 2005. This ensures that no matter what your level or ability, youll have a working suite of tools as you work through the book and your ASP.NET 2.0 career. The book also features tutorials on creating and publishing an ASP.NET 2.0 web site written in Visual Basic 2005taking care not to exclude anyone whos utilizing this book strictly to get up to speed on DotNetNuke.

About the Author
Nick Symmonds works for the Integrated System 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 three books currently 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: 448 pages
• Publisher: Apress (November 28, 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.com Sales Rank: #560,435 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Kevin Mitchell (Riverside, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	eze311 "eze311" (GA) - See all my reviews

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

By	A. Cetin (Warsaw, Poland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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).