What this book covers

Chapter 1 covers planning and building your first Content Management System.

Chapter 2 is about how to replace the file-based system with a database version. It also explores SqlDataSource, and using SQL Server 2005 Express as a source for data in our application.

Chapter 3 covers Content Management System architecture. It helps us build the database, a data access layer, a business logic layer, and a presentation layer for our Content Management System.

Chapter 4 discusses how to configure ASP.NET forms authentication, along with how to provide controls for users to log in, as well as ways to secure the content displayed on the pages.

Chapter 5 covers the basics of how to display your articles, how to create them, and how you may want to extend them.

Chapter 6 covers the concepts of why we lay out the site in a particular way, as well as beginning to help us understand all the pieces involved in this process.

Chapter 7 discusses a great deal about dynamically providing content to the users. It explores streaming files and images from the database, as well as generating RSS feeds "on the fly".

Chapter 8 covers maintaining users, adjusting permissions, approving Articles, and viewing site settings and stats—all key aspects of the Control Panel, which could be called the "brain" of any CMS.

Chapter 9 discusses a few additional options such as upsizing SQL server, using base pages and inheritance, and so on that may help extend a CMS.