We need to select a CMS for our company's website which will allow the designers to make changes to the pages, add pages, view and publish them.
We r using Visual Studio 2010 for web development and includes Global.asax, Masterpages, User-/Custom-Controls, Security (FormsAuthentication, custom Membership-/RoleProvider). W ehave SQL server 2008 for the DB.
I have looked into various CMS like Sitefinity,N2CMS, Umbraco, DotNetnuke. We kinda liked playing with the demo of N2CMS. We don't want to start developing the site from scratch. We want to integrate some CMS into our application for the designers to use. However, I can't find any helpful documentation regarding the integration. Everyone starts talking building from sctrach. The documentation for N2CMS seems so outdated.
If anyone can guide me how to set a CMS into exsiting application, I will really appreciate it.
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Which one is the best option to start off a web project in?
I know Wordpress can be used from within WebMatrix as well, but can it independently function on its own and get the sites done?
WebMatrix is a free tool that allows you to create, customise and publish websites. To get started you can select an application from the built-in gallery such as DotNetNuke, Umbraco, WordPress and Joomla or you can create your own master piece from scratch.
Webmatrix makes it easy to install and develop for Drupal on Windows, bringing open source applications to a whole new audience. As Drupal is as much a framework as it is a CMS, including it in the package makes it possible for any kind of web application to be developed on Webmatrix.
Note: Microsoft has been active in the Drupal community for a few years, and the community is proud that Drupal has been recognised as one of the best CMS and development frameworks available and selected by Microsoft for inclusion in Webmatrix.
WordPress is a standalone Content Management System. WebMatrix is a web development tool which can be used to author PHP files (which is what WordPress uses). You would only do that if you wanted to customise your WordPress system, but most users do not need to do that.
You do not need WebMatrix to work with WordPress sites, but for a beginner, it provides a fairly hassle free way to get your WordPress site up and running. WebMatrix includes a web server and will configure your WordPress site to get up and running on that.
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I have few queries related to this.
How can I configure and view the style components of telerik on web.
(if someone tried) Where can I find IIS settings in somee.com so If I want to modify anything there.
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How can I configure and view the style components of telerik on web.
Telerik RadProgressArea requires Full Trust level.
As long as you do not use RadProgressArea, it should be fine with most share hosting site.
If you have questions regarding server, you can ask at Server Fault.
Googling did not result any useful answers so I'm trying you.
Has anyone out there ever done an integration of a Sharepoint Blog into an ASP.NET web application? Or, do you know of any sharepoint web services available for retrieving and updating sharepoint blog content? Any info is appreciated.
Sharepoint is MOSS 2010
The web application is a sitecore intranet
portal 3.3 but this may be inconsequential
There wouldn't be a simple solution to this, however here are a couple of approaches you could explore:
1) Consume the SharePoint Blog RSS feed in your .NET application to get the blog posts
2) Use the SharePoint Client Object Model to interact with SharePoint via custom code. Using the object model (through C# or VB) you could create new posts (which are just list items) as well as retrieve them. Here is a good place to start on writing custom code with the Client Object Model: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee857094.aspx
Check this open source web part
http://www.bendsoft.com/downloads/sharepoint-web-parts/sharepoint-blog-reader/
It would be very simple to convert to generic .net usage, contact Bendsoft at their forum (http://forum.bendsoft.com), maybe they will help you with some of the work. It isn't very difficult when using a connector.
The solution is compatible with both SP 2007, 2010 and also feature versions like 2013.
I have a good amount of knowledge in the ASP.NET Webforms and MVC worlds. Shortly I will be tasked with implementing custom web applications with Sharepoint. I have great flexibility with this project (i.e - I can use custom web apps outside of Sharepoint if that's possible) but like most projects the most limiting factor I have to deal with is time.
Here are some questions that come to mind:
Can I easily integrate a custom MVC project into Sharepoint 2010? What are the pros and cons if I can?
Same as #1 only with Webforms.
If #1 and #2 are not viable solutions, can I easily create custom web applications within the Sharepoint world? What will the learning curve be with my background?
I understand developers can now use Windows 7 to deliver Sharepoint 2010 solutions. It looks like I can use a trial of Microsoft Sharepoint Foundations 2010. If that's correct, are there any development differences or gotchas I need to be aware of before digging into the Foundation version? I don't want to get up to speed on Foundation and then find out that the Server edition (the version that will be deployed) is vastly different.
Thanks!
SharePoint is based on webforms - it is relatively easy to add custom user controls and web parts, though if you want to use SharePoint data in a completely custom web app, especially mvc you will probably need to host it seperately - you can access everything you need through the SharePoint API, but it makes the deployment a lot more complicated.
The workarounds to get webforms mvc running in the SharePoint web app tend to involve stuff that would never get past corporate infrastructure people, but I've been getting good results with precompiled razor views set up based on http://razorengine.codeplex.com/ - my version that produces code which can be included in a SharePoint project is at https://github.com/tqc/RazorEngine
In the 2007 version there were significant architectural differences between WSS and MOSS. With 2010 there aren't as many differences, so you should be ok, but it would still be better to develop on the same version you are deploying to - download a trial of Standard or one of the demo VMs - If you do a lot of .net development, chances are you already have an appropriate dev license.
What are you trying to accomplish? Are you connecting your MVC site to SharePoint or are you building something "MVC" on top of the SharePoint server?
In any case, there is an MVC SharePoint project on Codeplex here http://sharepointmvc.codeplex.com/
Here is an article on the subject http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2009/03/17/asp-net-mvc-and-sharepoint.aspx
I havent touched it, and it seems a bit abandoned to me, but it might get you along.
Check out it outlines one method of running MVC with SharePoint
Generally, SharePoint will simplify many user-oriented requirements you may have - such as authentication, permissions control and personalised areas (with MySites).
If you go with SharePoint, you almost have to build your product for SharePoint Foundation so that you can keep your customers' total costs low (SharePoint CALs, SQL Server, hardware, etc). You'll want to build friendly user interfaces for managing permission, allowing your users to create their own pages, and other provisioning tasks -- or provide rock-solid documentation on how to do it out of the box with SharePoint. With SharePoint, you should use features and Web Parts to deploy your code either way , whether SaaS or on-premise. That will make it easier to deploy and upgrade.
i am working on a web application that now requires a CMS.
Could you suggest me a product that grant integration with my existing application.
The latter is implemented using .Net framework 3.5 Linq to sql and SQL Server 2008
I may consider even not open source product (affordable price)
i want to create a Master page and allow the application's users to modify the content.
Ideally give them the ability to add controls such as image sliders (but this is not the main scope)
Main objective is the ability to modify the content usually text. Bu more is always better........
Thanks
http://n2cms.com/ is very powerful cms that can be integrated with your application.
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ is a good open source choice.
Graffiti is now Open Source. I'm not sure how it integrates with an existing application.
SharePoint is the obvious answer, considering it's an ASP.NET application itself. It's free with Windows Server 2003 or 2008.
Umbraco is fantastic and free. Allowing you to integrate many plugins. If you are a developer you will probably fall in live as it offers a lot of integration.
DotNetNuke has a great (if not long winded) video intro and online demo so you can see how it works.