Microsoft has just published the chapter “Enhancing performance with Caching” of the MCMS book Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server from Joel, Mei Ying and myself on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_MCMS2002_bk/html/CMSCh22EnhancingPerfCaching.asp
I attended the “ASP.NET 2.0: Best Practices for Building Web Application UI with Master Pages, Themes and Site Navigation” session and had a chance to talk with the speaker and one of the developers about the problem with Themes in Content Management applications which I outlined here. It seems there is currently really no other […]
The day started with a key note from Andrew Lees. Topic of the keynote was “Ready for Business”. Main topics covered were 64bit technology, virtualization and benefits of our new products (SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005) for business and integration strategies. After the keynote I jumped over to the Ask the Experts Area and […]
Yesterday I attended the “The Zen of ASP.NET 2.0” preconference Session. It was really a great session to get an impression about all the nice new features of ASP.NET 2.0. The topics covered were very similar to the ASP.NET 2.0 training from DevelopMentor which I attended before but a lots of additional or different samples were […]
I will join the Portal sessions and will pass by at the SPS/CMS booth to join some of the Ask the Expert events. See you there!
Mark Harrison has written a nice summary on how to deploy SharePoint web parts: http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2005/07/how-to-deploy-web-parts.htm
Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development Lim Mei Ying, Stefan Goßner, Andrew Connell, Angus Logan This book has the most in depth-coverage of important MCMS development topics found anywhere. Each author of the book is a renowned expert in the area Learn directly from recognized community experts Extensive coverage of the Publishing […]
As mentioned by Arpan there are no plans to support ASP.NET Web Parts with MCMS with SP2. Anyway, today I took some minutes to play around with the web parts using my ASP.NET 2.0 site (see here for details on how to setup such a site) and at least for a read-only website I did […]
I played around with master pages on my ASP.NET 2.0 MCMS web site (see here for details on how to setup such a site). My findings are that on a read-only website MCMS Placeholder controls work fine as well on the master page and on the content page. That’s what I assumed when I wrote […]
Even without MCMS SP2 being available you can already evaluate ASP.NET 2.0 with MCMS! You cannot use it on a read-write website as webauthor does not yet work with ASP.NET 2.0 but you can configure a website that is configured with ASP.NET 2.0 as MCMS read-only website. I just tried this and found that all out-of-the-box […]
[This article has been replaced with a new improved version.] As outlined in the article I posted yesterday ASP.NET 2.0 provides new concepts to implement site navigation based on new server controls and the Site Map Provider concept. The controls and the provider work together and allow the implementation of a very flexible and scalable […]
Now – after support for ASP.NET 2.0 with MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 – has officially been announced lets have a short look on the new features coming with ASP.NET 2.0 and how they might give benefits to a MCMS site. Master Pages One of the key selling points for ASP.NET 2.0 is the new […]
