ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Planning and Building your First Content Management System
Chapter 2: Adding a Database to a Content Management System
Chapter 3: Content Management System Architecture
Chapter 4: Adding Security and Membership to a Content Management System
Chapter 5: Creating the Articles Module
Chapter 6: Pages and Zones
Chapter 7: Images, Files, and RSS
Chapter 8: Administrator Control Panel
Chapter 9: Further Possibilities
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Planning and Building your First Content Management System
  • What a Content Management System is
    • Web Content Management Systems
  • Why use ASP.NET
    • ASP.NET membership and profiles
    • ASP.NET Master Pages and Themes
    • ASP.NET 3.5
  • Setting up your environment
    • Installing IIS
      • Operating systems and IIS versions
      • Installing IIS in Windows XP Pro
      • Installing IIS in Windows Vista
    • Installing ASP.NET 3.5
    • Installing Visual Web Developer Express 2008
    • Configuring and testing your setup
      • Configuring IIS on Windows XP
      • Configuring IIS on Windows Vista
      • Setting NTFS permissions
      • Testing IIS
  • Writing a simple content management application
    • Default.aspx
      • Content.txt
    • FCKEditor
    • Edit.aspx
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Adding a Database to a Content Management System
  • Why use a database
  • Why use SQL Server Express
  • Installing and configuring SQL Server 2005 Express
    • Installing SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express
    • Running SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express
  • Creating a database for our simple Content Management System
    • Creating a new database with Management Studio Express
    • Windows authentication vs SQL server authentication
      • Configuring an SQL user account
      • Configuring the database to use the SQL Server account
    • Creating a database table with Management Studio Express
    • Using the SimpleCMS database in Visual Web Developer
  • Using the SimpleCMS database in the CMS application
    • Creating a new Default.aspx file
      • Configuring the data source
      • Binding the Data Source to a Repeater control
    • Creating a new Edit.aspx
  • Creating multiple content pages
    • Altering the database table
      • Adding data to the new column
    • Altering the SqlDataSource code
  • Understanding SQL Server commands
    • SQL query syntax
    • SELECT queries
      • WHERE clause
      • TOP
      • ALL | DISTINCT
      • COUNT
      • GROUP BY clause
      • ORDER BY clause
    • INSERT queries
    • UPDATE queries
    • DELETE queries
    • Other queries
  • Entities and relationships in brief
    • Entities
    • Entity relationships
  • SQL injection
    • Preventing SQL injection
  • Changing the database user account
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Content Management System Architecture
  • Multi-tier architecture
    • The data store
      • The Pages table
      • The Panes table
      • The Articles table
    • The data access layer
      • Creating the typed dataset
      • Filtering data from the dataset
      • Insert method
      • Update and delete methods
    • The business logic layer
      • The ArticlesBLL class
    • The presentation layer
      • Building the Master Page
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Adding Security and Membership to a Content Management System
  • ASP.NET membership
  • Configuring and using forms authentication
    • Creating a new application
    • Creating the home page
      • Create the Master Page
    • Enabling forms authentication
    • Creating the membership database
    • Configuring the SqlMembershipProvider
    • Creating the login page
    • Creating a user account with the ASP.NET configuration tool
    • Creating a login
  • Adding forms authentication to our CMS
    • Preparing an existing SQL database
      • The aspnet_regsql.exe tool
    • User accounts
    • Membership roles
      • Adding users to roles
    • Login page
    • New user registration
    • Securing content
    • Login status
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Creating the Articles Module
  • Application specifications
    • The Article publication process
    • User controls
      • Building a user control
    • Additional specifications
  • Building the Articles module
    • Database layout
    • Data access layer
    • Business logic layer
    • User controls
      • Listing Articles
    • Author, Editor, and Publisher roles
  • Additional features
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Pages and Zones
  • Master Pages
  • Themes
  • Menus
  • Page hierarchy
  • Regions and Zones
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Images, Files, and RSS
  • How images and files work on the Web
  • File upload control and beyond
  • Image gallery
  • Document repositories
  • RSS feeds
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Administrator Control Panel
  • Basic site settings
  • User accounts
  • Articles
  • Reporting
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Further Possibilities
  • Upsizing to the SQL Server
  • Additional modules
  • Base pages
  • Error trapping
  • Summary

• Index

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