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I have a small site I developed for a friend that uses ASP.Net MVC and was wondering if I could hook it up to dotnetnuke or another CMS. Or is doing an admin site using dynamic data?
Here is a list of a few ASP.NET MVC based CMS's. However these are not based on the current release candidate but I think they are a pretty good start.
N2 Open Source ASP.NET CMS
http://n2cms.com/
Oxite
http://www.visitmix.com/Lab/Oxite
Hydrogen CMS
http://www.hydrogencms.net/Home.aspx
Take a look to Kooboo (kooboo.com). A simple to use and flexible CMS based upon ASP.NET MVC.
I wish there was a good CMS in MVC. However MVC isn't even RTM yet!
The thing with current .NET CMSs are that they don't handle URLs very well.
I'm hoping a CMS built on MVC will pop up at some point.
Try Composite C1. I have developed a few MVC modules for this. The good thing is that you can have both MVC and Web Form modules working side by side in this CMS.
Take a look at OpenSourceCms.com, they might have what you're looking for or the demos there might at least help lead you to an answer.
Oxite might be the closest to what you are after at the moment although I think it is more of a blog engine.
In my opinion, the only decent CMS is the one you write yourself. Just the features you want, with no inactive sections, but if you want to have a solid base to start with, try MVCwCMS (Please note I'm the author).
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I'm getting our company to switch from a classic asp, dreamweaver based design/develop workflow to a ASP.NET MVC based design develop workflow.
Is it recommended that designers use Visual Studio to edit Master pages and views? I'm thinking that it is ok because they might need to edit a config file or a controller along the way. However, if there is a different "Best Practices" method/workflow then I'm all ears.
Our designers use Visual Studio 2010 for editing our MVC 3 views. It took a couple days of meetings to just go over all the information they needed to know, plus we're here to help them if they have questions. We're on a team of 4 (2 programmers, 2 designers) and we're all plugged in to TFS 2010, which is another reason to have them on Visual Studio.
There's no reason any designer worth their salary shouldn't be able to figure out how to use Visual Studio for editing markup.
The problem is the user doing the design work will never get a preview of what the view looks like without actually running the app. So basically they just need a good text editor, and Visual Studio is just as good as any here.
The nice thing is you can alter a view at runtime and refresh the page and you'll see your changes, which leads to a pretty efficient do markup -> refresh development loop.
I agree with the others here that Visual Studio is the way to go but if there's some reason you don't want to use Visual Studio then WebMatrix maybe an alternative option in the future, but it currently only supports Razor views. It's underrated as a quick and simple way of editing Views, HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.
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Does anyone know of any good resources (books, articles, existing software, etc...) for learning how to implement A/B split testing in ASP.NET?
FairlyCertain is an AB Testing library for ASP.NET that's worth checking out. It drops seamlessly into your project and doesn't require any of the javascript voodoo that Google Website Optimizer uses (which kills your site's performance and SEO all in one shot).
I've been using it for a few of my projects for several months now with good success.
I have just written a short article describing a technique for doing split testing in ASP.Net MVC. You can check it out here
It will not take much work to make it work with traditional asp.net.
For anyone running into this post again, you may find this useful:
http://github.com/htayebi/AbTestMaster
It's an open source a/b testing framework for ASP.NET MVC which allows you to write the results either in sql database or csv file. You can download the nuget package or if interested, go through the code in github.
Google website optimizer?
http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/b/index.html
http://www.google.com/support/websiteoptimizer/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=14309
http://www.google.com/support/websiteoptimizer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=71976
I suggest you use Display Modes to achieve A/B testing.
But Display Modes just support simple problems by default.
If you already implement Display Modes in some other scenario. You can consider DisplayModeMatrix (just google it). It helps you use Display Modes more efficiency.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/DisplayModeMatrix/
Wth Display Modes you can simply delete/rename views after A/B testing to clean up your project.
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I've seen a little buzz on the open-source ASP.NET Web Forms MVP project, but where can I get resources?
http://webformsmvp.com is pretty much stubbed out for now. This appears to be a compelling refresh of the Web Forms paradigm and bring into the fold things that make ASP.NET MVC great. I hear it's going to be put out there at MIX10 this week, but anyone have any useful sites/references?
Tatham Oddie, one of the WebForms MVP developers, was on Scott Hanselman's podcast not too long ago. You can find that episode here: A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP. A PDF transcript is available there if you don't have time to listen to it.
Tatham's blog is at http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/ and his most recent post mentions the podcast and that they were quite about the project till now. The wiki page on the project's site that you linked to mentions the MIX 10 announcement.
You can find the video and slides of Tatham's and Damian's MIX10 session here (they do mention WebForms MVP near the end of the slides): Building Great Standards-Based Websites for the Big Wide World with Microsoft ASP.NET 4.
Apart from that, and the project's wiki page, I don't think there are any other resources. They suggest downloading the project demo to get familiar with it till documentation is available.
I am also not aware of this project - domain was registered long ago it seems but if you google for it there are not many results.
If you want to use MVP I can highly recommend you the following article by Billy McCafferty:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/ModelViewPresenter.aspx
Maybe you mix it up with what is extracted now from the ASP.NET MVC framework that goes into the "classic" ASP.NET - e.g. URL Routing functionality which you can read up there:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/13/url-routing-with-asp-net-4-web-forms-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx
Maybe this helps but I have not heard about any MVP project - and the one linked in your questions seems to have no relation to Microsoft (if you look it up on nic.com)
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I'm using ASP.NET on my current website and now I need to add some blogs to the site. I need at least 5 multiple blogs and I'm looking for a solution in ASP.NET.
I have been using WordPress before and was looking at Wordpress MU but as I'm running ASP.NET on this website it seems like a bad idea to combine these two. Also the blog is going to be in a subdirectory that I need to protect with ASP.NET so only logged in users can see the blog.
What is the best alternative for multiple blogs in ASP.NET? Or do you think I shall just use WordPress anyway?
Not the best answer:
But it is possible to adjust/extended the open source BlogEngine.net to handle multiple sites.
http://blogengine.codeplex.com/
That being said, it will take some work to make it support a "blog-network", but there are a bunch of developers out there that have done it, and there was an old project based off version 1.3 that handles multiple blogs.
Blogengine now has direct support for multiple blogs.
Is very fast and easy to use.
And it can work without a database if you prefer.
To understand how multiple blogs works and how to configure it look at Introducing Multiple Blogs in Single Instance for BlogEngine.NET
There's Community Server, which is the engine used by MSDN blogs. Back in the day CS used to be an open source ASP.NET showcase project, but it ended up being monetized. I don't know if they still have a free version.
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Does anyone know of any good sites to download good design templates (master pages, css files) for MVC projects, or ASP.NET projects in general? I've used the asp.net mvc gallery but the options there are pretty limited. I'm willing to pay for some if they are good.
http://www.templatemonster.com
cheap and pretty professional.
take a look at this project : http://mvccontribgallery.codeplex.com/
there are many ASP.NET MVC design samples inside this project.
I've easily fitted templates from the likes of Free CSS Templates in to numerous ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC sites - they are very clean HTML and CSS templates, often built around common elements, so that once you've built your MasterPage changing to another one is often as simple as updating the CSS reference and changing some images.
Obviously there's a bit more work if you want to swap from a horizontal to vertical navigation, but it's not that hard.
All of the best examples of websites built on ASP.NET are hosted on CodePlex. Take a look at BlogEngine.Net if you are wanting a good ASP.NET example website or if you are looking for a specific library or type of ASP.NET MVC site then you can use the sites search capabilities to find whatever you are looking for. CodePlex is the site for open source .Net technologies like ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. ASP.NET MVC futures is also hosted at codeplex if you are looking for additional features