May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
21h 46m
English
book
Professional DNN7: Open Source .NET CMS Platform
by Shaun Walker, Bruce Chapman, Cathal Connolly, Peter Donker, Israel Martinez, Charles Nurse, Chris Paterra, Clinton Bland, Ashish Prasad, Nathan Rover, Mitchel Sellers, Dennis Shiao, Will Strohl, Erik van Ballegoij, Scott Willhite, Ralph Williams Jr.
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System Architecture
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Delving into patterns
- Examining the DNN architecture
- Exploring the basic layers in DNN
The initial version of DNN (or DotNetNuke) was derived from the IBuySpy Portal starter kit that was released in both a C# version and a VB.NET version. IBuySpy was designed to provide a real-world example of some of the new development concepts of the ASP.NET platform.
While DotNetNuke 7 still retains some of the core principles that were introduced in IBuySpy Portal, if you look at the source of DNN today, it doesn't really resemble IBuySpy. Actually, DNN 7 bears little resemblance to the earliest versions of DNN. Since DNN 6, the application is written in C#, while earlier versions were written in VB.NET.
The key technologies used in DNN have changed over the years. DNN 7 uses the following technologies in its supported architecture:
- Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7 or later running in Integrated Pipeline mode.
- An operating system that supports IIS 7 (that is, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8, Windows 2008 Server, or Windows Server 2012).
- The ASP.NET framework. (Early versions of DNN ran on the then-current version of ASP.NET. DotNetNuke version 7 requires ASP.NET version 4.0 or later for both runtime and development.)
- C# (Visual Basic.NET or any other CLR-compliant language can be used to write extensions to the platform.) ...
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