Chapter 1 covers planning and building your first Content Management System.

Chapter 2 is about how to replace the file-based system with a database version. It also explores SqlDataSource, and using SQL Server 2005 Express as a source for data in our application.

Chapter 3 covers Content Management System architecture. It helps us build the database, a data access layer, a business logic layer, and a presentation layer for our Content Management System.

Chapter 4 discusses how to configure ASP.NET forms authentication, along with how to provide controls for users to log in, as well as ways to secure the content displayed on the pages.

Chapter 5 covers the basics of how to display your articles, how to create them, and how you may want to extend them.

Chapter 6 covers the concepts of why we lay out the site in a particular way, as well as beginning to help us understand all the pieces involved in this process.

Chapter 7 discusses a great deal about dynamically providing content to the users. It explores streaming files and images from the database, as well as generating RSS feeds "on the fly".

Chapter 8 covers maintaining users, adjusting permissions, approving Articles, and viewing site settings and stats—all key aspects of the Control Panel, which could be called the "brain" of any CMS.

Chapter 9 discusses a few additional options such as upsizing SQL server, using base pages and inheritance, and so on that may help extend a CMS.

This book is for beginning to intermediate ASP.NET users, who have managed to learn Visual Web Developer and want to take on their first real world application. It will help those who have used SQL Server Express, completed a few sample projects, and who now wish to explore a Content Management System.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: To provide further uniqueness, we could name the fields employee.employee_address and customer.customer_address

A block of code will be set as follows:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim articlesAdapter As New DataSet1TableAdapters.ArticlesTableAdapter
GridView1.DataSource = articlesAdapter.GetData()
GridView1.DataBind()
End Sub

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items will be shown in bold:

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Register Src="~/Controls/ImageRotatorControl.ascx"
TagName="ImageRotator" TagPrefix="cms" %>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

aspnet_regsql.exe -S .\SQLEXPRESS -U sa -P SimpleCMS -d SimpleCMS_Database -A all

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in our text like this: "When you see the registration information, enter your name and company, then uncheck the Hide advanced configuration options checkbox".

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