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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

About the MCMS Host, Version, and Database


The upper section of the SCA provides you with information regarding the MCMS Host, Version and, Database.

MCMS Host

This entry shows the currently used protocol and server name to access the SCA.

MCMS Version

MCMS 2002 is the fifth version of MCMS. Your version number should begin with 5.x. If it's 4.x, you've got MCMS 2001.

Version Number

MCMS Service Pack Level

5.0.1581.0

No service pack installed

5.0.2284.0

Service Pack 1

5.0.4484.0

Service Pack 1a

MCMS Database

Do you remember the connection to the database that was created in Chapter 3? Well, the information that is stored in there is retrieved by the SCA and lets you easily find out which database you are currently connected to.

  • db Type is short for database (db) type. For MCMS 2002, this value would always be 'SQL Server'. This field was removed...