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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

Overview of this book

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality, and you provide the website interface, logic, and workflow. Once your website is up and running, your content contributors can add and edit content on their own, without the need to work with developers or the IT department. First time developers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 face a relatively steep learning curve. Not only are they expected to be conversant in the Microsoft .NET Framework, they are also required to be familiar with the concepts of MCMS 2002. Many beginners to MCMS start out by looking at the example site that ships with the product; tweaking it, dissecting it and turning it inside out using the obscure code comments as markers. However, when it comes to starting their own website from scratch, many are baffled ? where do they begin? This book exists to answer that question; teaching the essential concepts of MCMS 2002 in a clear, straightforward and practical manner. Containing answers to some of the most asked questions in developer newsgroups, this book is a treasure trove of tricks and tips for solving the problems faced by MCMS developers. This is a unique resource focused exclusively on the needs of developers using MCMS. It doesn?t waste time and pages on user or administrator level information that is well covered in other documentation. It?s a distillation of practical experience that developers need to get results, fast. The authors carefully structured example project complements and extends the knowledge gained from an initial look at the examples that ship with MCMS.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

Frequently Asked Questions


Sometimes, the Installation Wizard coughs up fur balls and refuses to continue until you feed it the right medicine. We have put together solutions to the common problems that have perplexed fellow developers in the past.

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Is it possible to install MCMS on a central server and have all our developers connect to it?

No, this is not possible. Each and every developer requires a local instance of MCMS on their machines. We discuss the extra steps required to establish a multi-developer environment in chapter 3.

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I am a developer for both MCMS 2001 and MCMS 2002. Can I install both versions on my computer?

Again, this is not possible. MCMS 2002 and MCMS 2001 share different versions of the same library files, so they cannot co-exist on the same computer. This includes the Site Builder and Site Manager client applications, so only one or the other can be installed at the same time. This also includes service pack versions, so an MCMS 2002 Site Manager instance will...