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Summary: ASP.NET Pro Magazine Review
Review: "I was looking forward to reading this book, and thankfully, author Stephen Fraser didn't let me down. He starts off with a bang in his introduction, commenting that the one feature all Content Management Systems (CMSs) have in common is that they are all overpriced. I couldn't agree more. With this book, Fraser attempts to prove this claim by providing readers with the knowledge of building a CMS from the ground up using the Microsoft .NET Framework. So not only do readers finish the book with a fully functional CMS, they also benefit from the experience with a real-world working knowledge of .NET in action.Fraser covers everything from CMS workflow to content conversion and personalization. Although anyone can download and use the complete CMS from Apress' Web site, only those who have spent the time and money to read this book will fully appreciate the author's work. The final CMS certainly doesn't match the capabilities of commercial systems - for example, there were no chapters dedicated to interoperating content workflow with rich client applications such as Microsoft Word - but the system does provide users with a platform to build additional .NET richness into the system. Perhaps Fraser can continue to evolve the system into the PHPNuke of the .NET world." - Mike Riley, ASP.NET Pro Magazine
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Summary: Content Management System? Are you sure?
Review: "Building A Content management System" is a misleading title The example is oversimplified in regards to name, and it is like any sample application that anyone who knows to create tables and knows how to create asp.net pages can think and produce. If you want to learn ASP.NET this book is not that great there are better ones in the market. If you want to learn content management systems and implement one this example is oversimplified and it does not lead you for building a real system
So i personally suggest keeping your money for a good book on ASP.NET or Content Management System
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Summary: ASP.NET Pro Magazine Review
Review: "I was looking forward to reading this book, and thankfully, author Stephen Fraser didn't let me down. He starts off with a bang in his introduction, commenting that the one feature all Content Management Systems (CMSs) have in common is that they are all overpriced. I couldn't agree more. With this book, Fraser attempts to prove this claim by providing readers with the knowledge of building a CMS from the ground up using the Microsoft .NET Framework. So not only do readers finish the book with a fully functional CMS, they also benefit from the experience with a real-world working knowledge of .NET in action. Fraser covers everything from CMS workflow to content conversion and personalization. Although anyone can download and use the complete CMS from Apress' Web site, only those who have spent the time and money to read this book will fully appreciate the author's work. The final CMS certainly doesn't match the capabilities of commercial systems - for example, there were no chapters dedicated to interoperating content workflow with rich client applications such as Microsoft Word - but the system does provide users with a platform to build additional .NET richness into the system. Perhaps Fraser can continue to evolve the system into the PHPNuke of the .NET world." - Mike Riley, ASP.NET Pro Magazine
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Before you allow the other eternal pessimists who wrote reviews on this book to sway you away from the purchase, think twice. Yes, this book steps you through the concepts and coding techniques to build a "smaller scaled" CMS with C#. The author comes right out and admits that. It would take a 4,000+ page book to outline the creation of a larger scaled $60,000 CMS with all of the bells and whistles. The author is well aware of that. What this book does give, is well rounded lessons on CMS concepts as well as the code and strategies behind building a C# CMS. It's meant to get you going and in almost all cases you're going to have to customize it to your needs. Even though I found that the author repeated come concepts when I pretty much got the point, I would rather have him over explain things than under explain. I did favor his writing AND coding style. In conclusion, I feel the knowledge I gained along with the code supplied with the book, will give me a nice kick-start to building my own custom CMS. I'm the Webmaster for a large college that just saved themselves $60,000 by investing in this book.
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Summary: Not too sure about "real world"...
Review: First off, the source code that accompanies the book is very useful (I use it to run an intranet) and it can be extended to display the content in a manner very different than the original author envisioned. That said, I think this book could be used as a classic example of how not to write extensible, maintainable code. Rather than demonstrate the power and ease of ASP.Net using datagrids and user controls, the content lists are constructed using loops and tables, and the form to edit content is repeated no fewer than 3 times. In order to filter the content before displaying it to the user we run a test on every row to determine if it meets the criteria rather than using a DataView and a filter. I am currently converting the code to a cleaner implementation and I find I am deleting an average of 2 pages of code per page, with no loss of functionality. When talking about content management I would have expected some sort of elegant promotion system, instead we are offered a custom page complete with custom code for each promotion, in spite of the fact that the only thing that changes between pages is who is allowed to perform the promotion and which state it is being promoted from/to. This book will not teach you to create flexible software that can be easily adapted to changing requirements. It will teach you to create brittle software that requires an inordinate amount of effort to make the simplest changes (replacing the editor textbox with a WYSIWYG control shouldn't require modifying 3 separate pages -- and I have the code to prove it).
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Summary: Lazy Critics, Fine Book
Review: I have to laugh at the lazy critics of this book who wanted a full blown CMS application in C# done for them. This book makes it clear that it's the "start" of a CMS application explained in an educational style. It has a great foundation for expansion, so role up your sleeves and do it. You can join some of us who are doing exactly that at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmsnet
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Summary: Lazy Critics, Fine Book
Review: I have to laugh at the lazy critics of this book who wanted a full blown CMS application in C# done for them. This book makes it clear that it's the "start" of a CMS application explained in an educational style. It has a great foundation for expansion, so role up your sleeves and do it. You can join some of us who are doing exactly that at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmsnet
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Summary: Lazy Critics, Fine Book
Review: I have to laugh at the lazy critics of this book who wanted a full blown CMS application in C# done for them. This book makes it clear that it's the "start" of a CMS application explained in an educational style. It has a great foundation for expansion, so role up your sleeves and do it. You can join some of us who are doing exactly that at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmsnet
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Summary: Author offers extensive updates
Review: I really appreciate the fact that the author provides content updates and more on his website, where you can get downloads, fixes, etc. to the content in this book. He's been extremely helpful to me in answering questions. The combination of the book and that has been a boon for our CMS efforts.
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Summary: Excellent book !!
Review: I'm amazed by the book, really. it's so user friendly and easy to grasp that it's beyond the good, hence excellent. i didn't find one useless sentence. all of it is just cash. the first chapters explain what the content managment is and afterwords it's just real code examples of content mangagment system and you really need these first chapters to understand:' hey what are we really talking about here?'.
I must say again, i'm amazed, but that's probably because i'm the target gruop and i fit in Stephens way of geting things explained. so i was so exited about this author that i checked others books of his, and belive it or not i found one which i think is the one of the best computer book i have ever red, i think it's not one of the best,it is the best..but that's another subject.
Really in this content managment system book you get only cash and you have so much fun. and you find yourself thinking 'why is this so perfect, can this complicated subject get a little complicated so you don't get all things served on the plate?'
With this book,It's extremely easy to comprehand this complicated subject(CMS).
The conclusion is that you get CMS for price of a book, it means you get all the code which you kan download from Internet.
again, amazing..
my background: 4 years in programming world, java,c++, asp.net sincerely
anonymous
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