A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own website with DotNetNuke, the free, open source evolution of Microsoft's celebrated IBuySpy portal. DotNetNuke is the leading open source website system for .NET. This book shows you how to get a fully featured website right off the blocks, with forums, news and image management, visitor accounts and registration, and community contribution features. The book then takes VB.NET developers through extending and customizing this powerful application. Featuring coverage of skins, custom modules, forums, extensions and add-ons. The book is...

You have decided to make custom controls for your LightSwitch application. The first question to answer is, why? Perhaps for the following reasons: You want to display data to your users in a visually captivating way, such as with the use of charts and graphs. You want to use non-standard user controls to allow for the easier input of data, such as the use of sliders. You require your users to perform a multiple-step process, and you want the screen to change based on the current step. Do not be fooled into believing that Visual Studio LightSwitch is only for basic forms over data....