What You Need for Using This Book

This book has been written both for the beginner wanting to set up a website and also for ASP.NET developers with a grasp of VB.NET. No prior knowledge of DotNetNuke is assumed. To work with the DotNetNuke code, you will need access to Visual Studio .NET 2005 or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express.

This book uses the DotNetNuke open-source project available from http://www.DotNetNuke.com. To install and run DotNetNuke, you will need:

You can download SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for free from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/. Visual Web Developer 2005 Express can be downloaded for free from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/.