Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0

Lim Mei Ying, Spencer Harbar, Stefan Goßner

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Get Microsoft Content Management Server Service Pack 2 up and running
Use the most exciting features of ASP.NET 2.0 in your MCMS development

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 224 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : August 2006
ISBN : 1904811523
ISBN 13 : 9781904811527
Author(s) : Lim Mei Ying, Spencer Harbar, Stefan Goßner
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Microsoft Development , Content Management (CMS), Enterprise, Microsoft, .NET, Web Development

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Lim Mei Ying

Lim Mei Ying is a Senior Consultant at Avanade, a global technology integrator specializing in the Microsoft platform. Mei Ying has extensive experience in designing, implementing and supporting enterprise web applications as well as setting up Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) systems across the enterprise. An active contributor to the Microsoft newsgroup community, she has spent many hours figuring out the dos and don'ts of MCMS technologies, and thrives on the challenge of finding new ways to solve MCMS-related problems. Mei Ying, who has earned the prestigious title of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award for Content Management Server. Mei Ying lives on the sunny island of Singapore and blogs at meiyinglim.blogspot.com

Spencer Harbar

Spencer, a MCSD for Microsoft .NET, MCSE and MVP for MCMS, has over twelve years commercial experience of architecture, design, development, deployment and operational support of Web based applications and hosting platforms for some of Europe's largest organisations.

Spencer maintains www.mcmsfaq.com - a MCMS resources portal, and is active in the public newsgroups. His experience of MCMS goes back to the days of NCompass Resolution and he has been involved in many enterprise implementations.

Currently working as an independent consultant, Spencer delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling and the implementation of highly available Windows Server System based hosting platforms.

Product expertise includes MCMS, SharePoint Technologies, IIS, SQL Server, Commerce Server and BizTalk Server, Windows Security, PKI and High Availability.

Selected clients include Barclays Bank, Scottish Power plc, HBOS, Microsoft, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, Centrica, Clifford Chance, The Automobile Association and BASF

Stefan Goßner

Stefan Goßner works for Microsoft as an Escalation Engineer in the Developer Support department. He provides customers with technical solutions to problems related to Microsoft Internet Server Products. Stefan has breadth and depth in all areas of MCMS.

His contributions to the newsgroup have helped many people to implement MCMS solutions in corporations around the globe to the point where it has been said that if you don't know Stefan, then you're probably new to MCMS.

Stefan maintains a huge MCMS 2002 FAQ on the Microsoft Website and provides MCMS tips and tricks on his personal blog: http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner.

He lives in Munich, Germany.

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What you will learn from this book

ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS, together, for the first time.

Install and configure MCMS Service Pack 2
Become familiar with the MCMS Service Pack 2 development environment
Master ASP.NET master pages and make them master templates
Integrate ASP.NET site navigation controls into your MCMS site
Customize the look and feel of your MCMS site with ASP.NET themes
Apply the ASP.NET membership provider model to enhance MCMS authentication
Tips and Tricks to get ASP.NET and MCMS living together in peace

In Detail

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

Get Microsoft Content Management Server Service Pack 2 up and running, and start using the most talked about features of ASP.NET 2.0 like master pages, site navigation, themes, and the membership provider model, in your MCMS development.
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Who this book is for

The book is written for developers who work with Microsoft Content Management Server, and want to update their skills to take advantage of the latest offerings in ASP.NET. If you are an MCMS developer who hasn't yet got into ASP.NET 2.0, this book is an ideal introduction to the most exciting features of ASP.NET 2.0, and how you can make them work for you.