This is my session on DotNetNuke from Prairie DevCon West in Calgary, Mar 13-15, 2012.

1. DOTNETNUKE 6 – CMS
REDEFINED:
DOTNETNUKE FOR A NEW GENERATION OF
ASP.NET DEVELOPERS
CHARLES NURSE
SENIOR ARCHITECT, DOTNETNUKE CORP.
CHARLES.NURSE@DNNCORP.COM
@CNURSE
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2. WHAT IS DOTNETNUKE (DNN)?
• How many of you have heard of DotNetNuke?
• How many of you are familiar with what the DotNetNuke
solution is designed for?
• How many of you have used, or are currently using,
DotNetNuke?
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3. WHAT IS DOTNETNUKE (DNN)?
• Why use a CMS or Web Application Framework?
» Time to market
» Leverage existing infrastructure
» 3rd party ecosystem (free and supported)
• Competitors?
» There are many PHP based CMS’s,
• WordPress, Joomla, Drupal
» DNN is the largest .NET Based CMS in the Market
• Umbraco – recently converted to MVC – broke backwards compatability
• Orchard - also MVC - is barely out of its infancy
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4. PROJECT HISTORY
• IBuySpy Portal
» Released by Microsoft in 2001
during .NET Framework 1.0
Beta
» Sample ASP.NET application
intended to help web
developers understand
new platform
» Basic portal functionality
with dynamically injected
user controls
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5. PROJECT HISTORY
• IBuySpy Workshop
» Released December 24, 2002
on ASP.NET Forums website
» Licensed under a BSD Open
Source license
» “Killer” feature was ability to
host multiple sites on a
single installation
( i.e. “virtualization” )
» Received immediate traction
in Microsoft developer
community
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6. PROJECT HISTORY
• DotNetNuke
» New project identity March
2003
» Combined “dotnet” with
“nuke” term which had been
made popular by “phpNuke”
in the LAMP community
» Original Core Team formed in
September 2003
» DotNetNuke 2.0 released at
VS Live! in San Francisco
in 2004, showcasing
new “skinning” capabilities
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7. PROJECT HISTORY
• Evolution
» DotNetNuke 3.0 early 2005
» DotNetNuke 4.0 released on
same day as ASP.NET 2.0,
November 2005
» DotNetNuke Corporation
formed Oct 2006
» DotNetNuke Corp receives Series A VC financing in Nov 2008
» DotNetNuke 5.0 released Jan 2009, first Commercial version
» DotNetNuke Corp receives Series B VC financing in Mar 2010
» DotNetNuke 6.0 release July 2011
» Today - DotNetNuke 6.2 CTP release Mar 16, 2012
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8. WHAT SETS DNN APART? - WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
• Nearly 1,000,000 Registered Users (1500 paying Customers)
• 7 million downloads all-time
» 15-25,000 downloads a week
» Consistently top 5 project on codeplex
» More than all ASP.NET CMSs combined
• 700,000 websites (outside the firewall) –
» More than all other ASP.NET CMSs combined
» ~10-15% of all ASP.NET websites
» 10-12,000 new websites each month
• Estimated third-party “Extension” market sales of $10M+
» 250+ Active System Integrators and Resellers
» 10+ full length books published
» 40+ hosting providers
• Major Developer Conference
» 500 + attendees
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9. WHAT SETS DNN APART? - WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
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10. WHAT SETS DNN APART? - WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
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11. WHAT SETS DNN APART? EXAMPLE SITES.
• Demo
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12. WHAT SETS DNN APART? THE STORE.
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13. WHAT SETS DNN APART? THE FORGE.
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14. WHAT SETS DNN APART? EXTENSIONS CATALOG.
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15. WHAT SETS DNN APART? EXTENSIONS CATALOG.
• Demo
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16. DOTNETNUKE ARCHITECTURE
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17. DOTNETNUKE – THE CORE & ECOSYSTEM
Custom Login
Language Packs
Providers
3rd Party Modules &
Custom Extensions
Skins
Google Analytics, Taxonomy,
Text / HTML Module Localization, Personalization, File
Management, etc..
DotNetNuke Core CE/PE/EE
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18. CONCEPTS : EXTENSIBILITY
• Modules (blog, ecommerce, rss, twitter, facebook…)
• Skins (any color, any layout, any market)
• Authentication Systems (facebook, twitter, windows live, AD…)
• Skin Objects (Login control, breadcrumb…)
• Containers (any color, any style..)
• Core Language Packs (> 40 languages)
• Extension Language Packs
• Dashboard Controls
• Library
• Providers
• Widgets
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19. PART II – EXTENDING DOTNETNUKE
• Demo time !!
• Focus on Modules
» Using Razor Host Module
• Simple web editor for Razor scripts
» Using WebMatrix
• Create a simple Razor based module
» Professional Module Development
• WebForms
• MVP (Model View Presenter) pattern
» Single Page Application model
• Services Framework
• jQuery
• KnockoutJS
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20. THANK YOU
• For more info:
» www.dotnetnuke.com
• Download DotNetNuke 6
» dotnetnuke.codeplex.com
• Feedback
» https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GHLYGSS
• Email: charles.nurse@dnncorp.com
• Blog: www.charlesnurse.com
• Twitter: @cnurse
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