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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

Summary


The Web Author Console is a highly customizable component. You can change its look and feel by modifying the HTML that renders the Web Author Console, or build a totally new control from scratch by following the code provided in the Default Console that ships with MCMS.

In this chapter, we created new Action Controls by creating classes that inherit from each of the BaseAction classes. We created an Action Control that bypasses the Save New Page dialogs by inheriting from the BaseAction class.

We went on to create two Action Controls that inherit from the BasePostback class: a control that deletes not only the current posting but also all postings connected to it; and a control that releases the ownership of a posting. We saw how server-side scripts can be called in postbacks by overriding the PerformActionBehavior() method.

Next, we saw how controls that open new dialog windows can also be created by inheriting from the BaseNewWindowAction class when we created a control that opened...