Joe Brinkman

Professional DotNetNuke ASP NET Portals

4 stars (Definitive book for understanding DNN) - I had just started playing around with content management systems when I can across DNN. At first, the interface seemed slick and all seemed to be going great guns, even when I had not read any book or reviews of DNN. Ane then came the problems....some pages wouldn't get deleted...the DNN tree just didn't seem to work. That was when I bought the book and enjoyed every topic it covered. I was helped a lot by the ASP.Net forum, where all sorts of issues were discussed. Overall, a pleasant experience and would recomment this over the other VB.Net book for DNN. 1 stars (A Huge Disappointment) - Two of us have been trying since 9:00 this morning to get DotNetNuke installed on a development server using the instructions in this book. It is now 9:00 in the evening. We aren't newbies, either--I have used SQL Server and ASP.Net for several years. During the course of our day, we discovered several outright errors is the installation chapter (for example, the wrong SQL Server password is shown in the Web.config example) and the web site for the book is woefully incomplete in its errata notes. I rarely give books single-star reviews, but this one is deserved. If a zero-star rating was available, that's what I'd give it. 5 stars (Shaun Walker is the Obi Wan of DNN) - How can you do better than having a book written by the guy that leads the project? Shaun Walker is the man when it comes to Dot Net Nuke. He is uniquely qualified to provide insight into the internal structure of the system. ...
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