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Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0

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Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0

Overview of this book

The release of Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) Service Pack 2 opens up the world of ASP.NET 2.0 to MCMS developers. Written by the masters of MCMS, this book shows you how to use the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 that everyone is talking about in your MCMS development. You will first learn how to install and configure MCMS SP2. There are two approaches to setting up a development environment for SP2: an upgrade from a previous SP1a installation or starting from scratch and building a fresh installation including SP2. Of course, both approaches are covered. You will become familiar with the MCMS Service Pack 2 development environment, and create custom Visual Studio 2005 templates to overcome some of the issues which are present with the templates shipped with MCMS SP2. After that, its time to look at some of the most exciting features of ASP.NET 2.0, and how you can make use of them in MCMS: master pages, site navigation, themes, and the membership provider model. One of the coolest features introduced with ASP.NET 2.0 is master pages, which allow developers to enforce common layout and behaviour across pages within an application. You will learn about the benefits of using master pages and see a step-by-step guide for implementing them in your MCMS applications, where they become master templates! ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a whole new way of implementing site navigation, driven by site maps. By programmatically adding channels and postings to a site map you will see how to smoothly integrate these controls to any MCMS site. To customize the look of your site, we will see how a common look and feel can be applied efficiently to a MCMS site by using ASP.NET 2.0 themes. An essential customization required for themes to work correctly in an MCMS site is a must-read feature of this chapter. MCMS has its own role based authorization and user management system which cannot be extended. However, the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Provider Model and the shipped controls can be used within MCMS applications to improve the implementation of Forms Authentication and provide a more elegant solution for authenticating against an external store. A collection of tips and tricks round off the book, including using the Provider Model design pattern to ease migration to Office SharePoint Portal Server

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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0
Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installation
Installation
Overview of MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2
Installation Approach
Upgrading to Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Service Pack 2
Configuring the Development Environment
Known Issues with MCMS SP2 Installation
Installation Tips
Summary
2
Getting Started with the Development Environment
Getting Started with the Development Environment
Visual Web Developer Websites
Creating an MCMS Web Application
Developing MCMS Web Applications
Configuring the 'CMS' Virtual Directory
Creating Custom MCMS Application Templates
Summary
3
Using Master Pages
Using Master Pages
Overview and Benefits of Master Pages
The TropicalGreen Web Site
Creating a New MCMS Web Application
Creating a Master Page for Use with MCMS
Creating an MCMS Template File Based on a Master Page
Modifying Master Page Properties from the Template File
Summary
4
Navigation Controls
Navigation Controls
Navigation for TropicalGreen
Site Maps and Site-Map Providers
Building an MCMS Site-Map Provider
The SiteMapPath Control
The Menu Control
The TreeView Control
Summary
5
Applying Themes
Applying Themes
Themes versus Cascading Style Sheets
Creating a Theme
Skins for Server Controls
Using Style Sheets
Summary
6
Authentication Controls and Membership Providers
Authentication Controls and Membership Providers
Authentication Controls
Implementing an MCMS Membership Provider
Using an MCMS Membership Provider
Creating a Login Page Using the Login Control
Using the LoginStatus and LoginName Controls
Supporting Custom Authentication Schemes
Summary
7
How-Tos, Tips and Tricks
How-Tos, Tips and Tricks
Tip #1 How-To Perform Cross Page Postbacks
Tip #2 How-To Implement an Ad Rotator
Tip #3 Considerations for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Summary

Using an MCMS Membership Provider

Now that we have created our MCMS Membership Provider, we need to register it with our Tropical Green MCMS application.

  1. 1. Right-click the TropicalGreen website and click Add Reference…

  2. 2. In the Add Reference dialog, click the Projects tab.

  3. 3. Click MCMSMembershipProviders and OK.

  4. 4. Open the web.config file.

  5. 5. Add the following section directly below the existing<authentication /> tag:

    <membership defaultProvider="McmsWindowsMembershipProvider"
userIsOnlineTimeWindow="30">
<providers>
<add name="McmsWindowsMembershipProvider"
type="TropicalGreen.MCMSMembershipProviders.
McmsWindowsMembershipProvider"
applicationName="/"/>
</providers>
</membership>

    Note

    Note that the type attribute of the<add> element needs to be entered on one line with no spaces or line breaks. The formatting above is for printing purposes only.

  6. 6. Modify the authentication section to use Forms Authentication:

<authentication mode="Forms">...
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