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Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 4
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Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 4 |
Author: Daniel N. Egan
Published: 2006-08-05 |
List price: $39.99
Our price: $35.99
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I'm about a half-fast programmer, so I found the free pdf download of Chapter 7 (Custom Module Development).
I'm glad I did, because after 3 attempts, I'm still not able to get the example working.
I saved myself ~$50.00.
My advice would be to keep looking...
 Core info good, but...
Who lets these people get away with such crappy writing style?! From page 275, on creating custom skins: "Imagine that a close friend is in dire need of a creative individual to help build a new home. Since you are a close friend and have the utmost faith in your creative ability, you approach your friend and agree to lend a hand."
Imagine that you are a writer in desperate need of an illustration and you contrive something like the above. You have just written something that does not relate to your core audience (geeks, folks! Not Martha Stewarts...) and is pedantic in the bargain. Editors, PLEASE tell your writers that when they can't come up with good illustrations they shouldn't force bad ones on their readers. It's better simply to dive into the material, unencumbered.
Helpful core information, though.
 Best of the Worst
I give it 3 stars because it seems like it is the best of the worst. This is the first DNN book I came across that didn't have a poor review. It touches on a number of subjects but doesn't really cover anything in great depth. If you are determined to buy a book on DNN then I would suggest this book since all of the others I found had poor reviews and everybody said most of the books were spent talking about the history of DNN rather than how to use it, however I would urge you not to waste your money on this one either. You can get just as much out of the online documentation. The example code is not explained very generally. Function calls are made but not explained. It is apparently up to the reader to look up in the documentation what functions are available and how they are used. Of course if you are going to do that then you don't really need this book. Just read the documentation.
 Excellent book for new DNN users
I read the reviews for a lot of DNN books and decided to get this one. I was not disappointed. The book takes you through the process of building a site and though they occasionally skip small steps, do a very good job. The section on developing your own modules is well written as well and again is demonstrated with specific steps.
Highly recommended!
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