Chapter 1. Planning and Building your First Content Management System

Welcome, and thank you for picking up this book. The purpose of this book is to walk through the creation of a basic Content Management System using the ASP.NET programming language. During the course of this book you will learn:

This book assumes that you know how to create a basic application in ASP.NET 2.0 using Visual Web Developer and deploy it on an IIS web server. You should also have a basic programming knowledge and you should have worked at least a little with a database. We'll be using both the SQL Server 2005 Express and Visual Web Developer, available free of cost from Microsoft.

In this chapter, we'll cover some basic needs such as setting up your programming environment, and some basic background. You'll need to know about Content Management Systems. We'll also jump right into coding a basic Content Management System, and then step back to analyze what work we've done and why we've done it.

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

So, let's get going.