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Product Description 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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September 16, 2008 The title misses,
November 17, 2007
Confusing and 1/2 is not useful,
January 05, 2007 This is supposed to be a book on developing a web site. He promises that you do not need to know programming or useless information about .NET. Then he devotes half the book to doing a Windows form for entering hours work, explaining basic HTML tags, reviewing the history of ASP - ASP.Net and uses some complex C# examples in object oriented techniques which have nothing to do with DotNetNuke and are never implemented again. This is what someone does who is paid by the publisher per word! This is supposed to be a Web form book! This book does not take you from "Novice to Professional". Read the DotNetNuke documentation instead. I'm sorry I spent the money.
 Good Starter Book,
August 24, 2006Good if you're looking for an intro into DotNetNuke...,
August 07, 2006 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...
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