Blogging with .NET April 11, 2006
Posted by cuyler in Web Development.2 comments
One of my co-workers is interested in developing a web site that covers .NET programming. So I promised I would look into open-source Content Management Systems that use Windows and ASP.NET.
After a brief investigation, I discovered these links summarizing some of the available packages:
- OngETC.com has a list of CMS’s that use ASP
- CSharp-Source.Net has a list of open source CMS’s written in C#
Some of the more popular packages are DotNetNuke, Rainbow, mojoPortal, Umbraco and OpenWiki.
Without delving into the details, I cannot compare the packages. But it is perhaps noteworthy that you can purchase Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals or read PACKT Publishing’s online book, Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 3.0. Searching Amazon for “DotNetNuke”, you can find 3 more titles that are coming out later this year (covering DNN version 4.0). I noticed one of the authors has a DotNetNuke discussion on his blog. The DotNetNuke site also has a nice guided tour.
Microsoft .NET is a powerful system that allows a designer to use almost any modern programming language. Typically you would use Microsoft SQL Server as the database and IIS as the web server. Although this provides a powerful development package, you are pretty much forced to use Windows to host your web site. During my brief investigation I came across DotNetPark which offers a plan for $7 a month.
