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(More customer reviews)It is great to review another book from Packt Publishing on DotNetNuke. It shows the commitment of the publisher to the CMS open source community and to DotNetNuke in particular. This time around I have reviewed "DotNetNuke 5.4 Cookbook".
I really like the cookbook format. It becomes very clear what each section wants to accomplish and what you will learn after going through it step-by-step. The fact that it is fully illustrated allows the novice to check if what they are doing is showing the results as portrayed through the book via its snapshots.
Even though this book has skinning and administration elements to it, but it is really geared towards the .NET developer audience. So if you are a developer wanting to get an introduction to DNN plus an in-depth development cover of DNN, then this is the book for you. If you are looking for more information on Skinning and Administration, then this is not your book. This is not actually a bad thing. It just shows that the book has a clear focus in terms of appealing to their .NET developer audience.
Chapter 1 goes through the installation process and a novice in DotNetNuke should have no problem going through it with the instructions provided.
Chapter 2 will cover basic administration tasks that anyone running a DNN site will have to know and understand like managing users, roles, pages and modules.
Chapter 3 will talk about a very important element of DotNetNuke which are the modules that either come with the platform or are available for free to download from DotNetNuke.com website.
Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 really focus on the development side of DotNetNuke. These chapters will speak very closely to the .NET developer who wants to get going with DNN and start creating and developing their own modules. It will go from basic development concepts used in DNN, passing though debugging strategies, going all the way up to advanced approaches to applying fancy features to a custom build module. In my opinion this is the core competence of this book.
Chapter 9 covers the language aspects of DotNetNuke. From the fact that you can have your site in any language via the language packages up to how to create multi-language sites and modules, this chapter shows it all. The developer will appreciate the fact that this chapter also shows how they should go about building a module and having it translated-ready from the beginning.
Chapter 10 gives a little more in terms of existing module management and advanced features that you can use with them.
Chapter 11 and 12 will go back to the bread and butter of this book, which is the development aspects. It will cover advanced features that are useful to have in DNN modules like importing/exporting data, security strategies and more.
Chapter 13 covers advanced skinning strategies. I think this could be very well removed from the book as it really doesn't appeal much to a .NET developer audience, which is the core public of this book.
This is really the type of DotNetNuke book that I like. It has a clear audience in mind (.NET developers) and delivers to that promise. Highly recommended literature if you are a developer who wants to get started on DotNetNuke development framework.
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This is a cookbook: each chapter contains a selection of useful self-contained recipes. The book begins with simple recipes for installing and configuring DotNetNuke then offers recipes for using out-of-the-box modules before delving into custom module and skin development. If you are a .NET developer with beginner to intermediate knowledge of Visual Basic or C# and want to develop a website/CMS using DotNetNuke, this book is for you. Familiarity with DNN operation, CSS, and basic web development (ASP.NET) skills is required.
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