Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 3.0 (Paperback)

~ Daniel N. Egan (Author)
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Product Description

A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own website with DotNetNuke, the free, open source evolution of Microsoft's IBuySpy Portal

• Create and manage your own website with DotNetNuke
• Customize and enhance your site with skins and custom modules
• Extend your site with forums and the best of third-party add-ons
• Complete coverage of setup, administration, and development

In Detail

DotNetNuke
DotNetNuke is a free, open source evolution of Microsoft's celebrated ASP.NET reference implementation, the IBuySpy Portal Solution Kit. DotNetNuke began life as a framework for constructing data-driven intranet and Internet portal applications. It has now developed into an advanced web content management system with tools to manage a dynamic and interactive data-driven website.

If you work with ASP.NET and VB.NET, and want an interactive website, with forums, news and image management, where visitors can register, participate and contribute to your site, then DotNetNuke is the ideal solution for you. This book is your indispensable guide to creating content-rich websites with DotNetNuke 3.0, as quickly as possible.

The first part of this book gives you a deep understanding of working with basic DotNetNuke sites, guiding you through the features and giving you the confidence to create and manage your own site. After that, you will journey to the heart of DotNetNuke, and learn about its core architecture. From there, you will learn how to customize DotNetNuke sites through skinning and creating custom modules.

Enhancing your site with forums and ecommerce functionality, creating multiple sites and deploying your site round off the book. You will master each of these topics as you leap into the development of a DotNetNuke 3.0 site.

What you will learn from this book?

This book will give you the skills to create and manage DotNetNuke websites as quickly as possible. You will:

• Install and configure DotNetNuke
• Use the standard modules
• Understand the core architecture of DotNetNuke
• Explore the inner workings of DotNetNuke modules
• Extend DotNetNuke with by creating powerful custom modules
• Create your own skin using a HTML Editor
• Learn about the new Whidbey style Provider Model
• Find out about where and how to host and deploy your site

Approach

You can use this book to help you set up and administer a DotNetNuke portal, even if you have a limited knowledge of ASP.NET. You will learn how to setup and administer an example site, stepping through all the tasks to ease your learning.

If you are a developer, this book will help you extend the DotNetNuke portal by first helping you understand how the core framework works and then show you how to create custom modules and skins. A rudimentary knowledge of VB.NET programming is assumed, but the emphasis is not on becoming a better VB.NET programmer but on taming DotNetNuke.

Who this book is written for?

This book has been written for both the beginner wanting to set up a website and also ASP.NET developers with a grasp of VB.NET and access to Visual Studio .NET. No prior knowledge of DotNetNuke is assumed.

The new features of DotNetNuke 3.0 are discussed extensively, so even if you have worked with previous versions of DotNetNuke, you will find something new.

From the Publisher

A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own website with DotNetNuke, the free, open source evolution of Microsoft's IBuySpy Portal Create and manage your own website with DotNetNuke Customize and enhance your site with skins and custom modules Extend your site with forums and the best of third-party add-ons Complete coverage of setup, administration, and development

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Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904811272
• ISBN-13: 978-1904811275
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #829,008 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable book for demystifying DNN Modules, June 29, 2005

By	Stacey A. Levine - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book was invaluable for helping me write my first DNN module. With the book, I was able to get my first module up in a day or so. Without it, I would have probably torn out what is left of my hair.

I have both this book and the one from the core team. The one from the core team realy only covers setting up the portal. This is the book to get to help you get started on module development.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Written with the developer in mind, was pleasantly surprised, April 11, 2005

By	John Vandenbrook "John VandenBrook" (Algonquin, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are interested in learning about DotNetNuke, or if you already have an understanding of the portal and wish to learn how to extend its functionality for DNN version 3, I can easily recommend this book. This is one of those few technical books that I've read front to back. It begins with an overview of DotNetNuke and the enhancements in version 3, and then quickly jumps into a systematic approach of how you can build your own modules. A degree of ASP.NET is assumed, but in my humble opinion anyone who is excited in what DNN has to offer and is eager to learn, can use this book as a foundation for building their first .NET private assembly - and one that works within the DNN framework, no less. The wrap up with "Must have DNN Modules" was terrific. He critiques some modules that other developers have created, and gives resources on where to find both free modules and ones you can purchase. He makes what seems otherwise impossible, practical and reasonable to accomplish. In fact, after reading the chapter on skinning even I may give it a shot... I'm not quite sure how to explain how this was an easy read. I thought the other was efficient in his explanations, unique in his analysis, and extremely clear in his presentation.

Both developers as well as those who are interested in learning more about DotNetNuke 3, and the community involved in this effort, will most likely be pleased and benefit from this book.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well Written. Very good for the novice, March 31, 2005

By	M. Washington (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is really good for the novice. A lot of things that you could only learn from reading thousands of messages in the user groups is available in one place. The book really takes time to explain things and doesn't assume you know something. It was nice to learn about Dotnetnuke where everything was explained slowly and in detail. It also contains a surprising number of pictures and this really helps a lot. It's a must read for anyone considering using Dotnetnuke.