Books : Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)
DotNetNuke is a programming framework that helps you create and deploy web projects in ASP.NET 2.0. Its ease of use means that even nonprogrammers can take advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 features when building a web site. It integrates with many of Microsofts other free products like SQL Server 2005 Express, which makes it a powerful and attractive option for developing web sites.
Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express contains detailed instructions for the installation of DotNetNuke, Visual Web Developer, and SQL Server 2005. This ensures that no matter what your level or ability, youll have a working suite of tools as you work through the book and your ASP.NET 2.0 career. The book also features tutorials on creating and publishing an ASP.NET 2.0 web site written in Visual Basic 2005taking care not to exclude anyone whos utilizing this book strictly to get up to speed on DotNetNuke.
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Average Rating:
Rating: - Delivers Exactly what it claims
This book will take you from absolutely no knowledge of DotnetNuke and get you well on your way. Simple to follow. Like any good intro book it will help you to understand how DNN works and gives you enough information to know where to go to learn more. For example after you are shown what a skin is and how to use it you are then shown how to make one of your own. You should then understand where you want to go from there. My experience level is 1.5 years as an ASP.net, VB and C# Developer with SQL ... Read More
Rating: - A very good primer
This is a very good introduction to DotNetNuke. It will help you install DNN on you own machine and guide you through building a simple website.
If you know a little about programming in VB and know something about HTML and CSS, this book will show you how to write your own DNN modules and create your own DNN skins and containers. You won't learn how to write complex modules or elaborate skins but you'll learn the basics.
If you already know how to install DNN and how to ... Read More
Rating: - To the point
It's not for the complete novice and it won't teach you how to code. But it will get you up and going with VWD and DNN. Well written with good screenshots. He also takes you through the process of creating modules. It's a good primer and was what I was looking for.