Beginning DotNetNuke 4. 0 Website Creation in C# 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express

by Nick Symmonds

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B01ENK3KAY
• ISBN13: 9781590596814
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Apress L. P.
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good Starter Book

This book is a brief introduction into the world of DotNetNuke. It will get you started, but it will not lead you into advanced topics. This book is geared towards people curious and interested into DNN. This book is not for developers, unless DNN is completely new to you. The author is good about making steady progress throughout the book, not losing his audience. I must say, this book is for Novice to Competent User, not proffesional. Good Luck.

Good if you're looking for an intro into DotNetNuke...

Not being terribly familiar with the Microsoft family of development technologies, I was completely unaware of what DotNetNuke was. My first guess would have been the latest virus du jour to hit Microsoft. But the book Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in C# 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional by Nick Symmonds does an OK job of introducing the reader to the basics of what you're dealing with... an open-source portal framework for .Net development... Contents: The Basics; The Express and DotNetNuke Combination; Installation; Basic C#; Visual Web Developer; DotNetNuke Basics; Creating a DNN Module; Finishing the DotNetNuke Module; DNN Permissions and Portals; DNN Hosting; Creating a DNN Skin; JavaScript and Ajax; Next Steps and Suggestions; Index Symmonds tries to cover quite a bit of material in this book, any one of which could take an entire book on its own. You would best be served to have an understanding of C# before you begin, as this is really not a C# tutorial. He does create a "time card" application in C#, which then becomes the basis for a DNN module in the later chapters. There's material on how to install the express versions of the Microsoft development environments for web and C# coding, but again it's not a definitive reference. It's enough to get you up and running, and then you can launch off from there once you follow the directions for this particular exercise. The main thrust of the book is to show how DNN can help you development portal-like web sites using the open-source framework, and how a program written in a language such as C# can easily be ported over to run as a web-enabled module. I don't think I'd want this to be my first exposure to web development, nor is it a book that an expert would use on a daily basis. But for someone like me who had no previous reference to DNN, it served a purpose... good introduction to understand the capabilities, and enough material to take me through the basics. If I were to decide that this was an option I wanted to pursue, I'd "know what I don't know" and could find additional material that would take me deeper into the subject... Given the right mindset, the book is good for what it sets out to do. But if you've already done things with DNN, you might find it a bit too basic for your tastes... I personally liked it because I came away with knowledge I didn't know existed prior to this...