Building Websites with VB.NET & DotNetNuke 3.0

Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 3.0

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

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Paperback, 280 pages
Released: March 2005
ISBN: 1904811272
Authors: Daniel N Egan

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About the book...
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.

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
The following links will take you to a full Table of Contents and chapter summary.

Introduction
1: What Is DotNetNuke
2: Installing DotNetNuke
3: Users, Roles, and Pages
4: Standard DotNetNuke Modules
5: Host and Admin Tools
6: Understanding the DotNetNuke Core Architecture
7: Creating Custom Modules Free Chapter
8: Creating DotNetNuke Skins
9: Enhancing Your Portal
10: Deploying Your DotNetNuke Portal
11: Creating Multiple Portals
12: Implementing the Provider Model in DotNetNuke
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Daniel N Egan: Over the past seven years, Daniel has held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. Currently, he is a System Development Specialist for Automated Data Processing's Southern California region working extensively in database applications and Web development. Daniel is an MCP and MCSD. In addition to his development work, he teaches a VB.NET Certification course at California State University Fullerton as well as serves on its .NET Advisory board. He is also the founder and chief author of Dot Net Doc (www.DotNetDoc.com), a .NET and DNN developer resource website built using the DotNetNuke framework. He has written numerous articles on DotNetNuke and the underlying DNN architecture. He is also the founder of the LA/Orange County DNN User Group and is currently working on two DNN Related projects. DNN User Group Online (www.DNNUGOnline.com), a portal designed to allow User Groups to broadcast their meetings online. DotNetNuke Radio, a live internet radio show about DotNetNuke.

ABOUT 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.

Visit www.dotnetnuke.com for more information.

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