Professional DNN7: Open Source .NET CMS Platform 1st Edition

This one is worth it simply for Chapter 1 alone by Shaun Walker. Having been in this community since Day 1, it is great to have such a perfect summary of all that has happened to date. DNN is here to stay and we are all in! Thanks to all the authors for your contributions to this book. I have not fully finished reading the book yet, but I have loved all I have read so far. Let's start planning a book for DNN8 so we'll be ahead of the curve this time! ;-) I'll be more than happy to contribute. Just let me know if I can be of assistance.

25% on the book is the history of DNN. This book should be called The History book of DNN. I don't need to read for hours and hours just on the history of everything the founder of DNN has done his entire life. The majority of the book is good for people who have no knowledge of DNN and who are interested in the history. For people interested in any programming the book has a few pages in regards to programming but very little. You will learn the very basics of creating a module or skin but you are better off just going on YouTube for free learning and much more information on programming

It was too high-level and didn't get into details I thought it would get into. Good for someone new to DNN as a primer but not "Professional"/advanced level material.

Excellent book. Well written, with a lot of perspective on DotNetNuke's history and evolution. I found it particularly valuable as someone who's been involved in ASP.NET for years, but is relatively new to DotNetNuke. I have a much better sense of "where this all came from" after reading this book! In addition, his chapters on how to code modules is really useful. This is not, however, a "cookbook" which tells you exactly what to do without explaining why - for that you'll have to find a different title.

The reviews on this book seem to be mostly 1 star or 5 star so here is my 2 cents worth...I actually liked the history of DNN given in the first chapter (a total of around 100 pages.) No, it probably won't help you manage a site, write a module or change a skin but it sets the context well.At the time I am writing this review DNN 9.02 is shipping however the differences between this and DNN 7 seem minor enough to not matter.The general explanations of the various host and administrator options were good and the detailed example of how to write a fully featured module using DAL 2 to store the modules data, how to edit, view, delete data etc. was the highlight of the book for me.Bottom line if:- You are getting started with DNN and the information you can find online isn't making things clear- You have an interest in the history of DNNthen buy this book.

Best DNN book ever. Describe a lot of hidden features and concepts about DNN not only technical but commercial

Dnn is a 💩 Cms framework. Use Sitecore or SharePoint instead.

Are there ANY decent books on DotNetNuke available? Because everyone I have purchased is absolutely horrible. The only thing I've learned is if I see this Shaun Walker character's face on the cover (since that is the ONLY thing in common between all the dnn books I've purchased), then do NOT BUY THAT BOOK.Because if he's mentioned, it appears the book never actually teaches you anything, except the very, very basic info about it. If someone actually wrote a book that focused on BUILDING MODULES for this CMS, it would have about 10 times more copies out there. Instead, because of poorly written books like this, and the fact that if you go to their website and forum and ask a question, it's MODERATED. Which means that you wait 2-3 days before someone actually posts and responds to your question, and if you don't ask ONE question at a time, they will answer the most GENERAL question you have, in the MOST GENERAL way, leaving you with the realization that you just wasted 2 days, waiting for an intelligent response, and were left wanting.So it's impossible to get good info about DotNetNuke, and that is why, though it is truly an excellent framwork, it is incredibly unpopular on microsoft boxes. If they didn't have such a fascist view of the programming world, they'd have made 10 x as much money as they have. It's truly sad to see a good product wasted, because of a lazy effort to disseminate information about it.