[4], it has now been downloaded by over 100,000 users and
many people have contributed to its development. DotNetNuke
is officially described as;
“an open source Web Portal Framework / Content
Management System application written in ASP.NET / VB.NET
for the Windows OS platform.”
While it is essentially a portal, it’s also much more. For those
of us who have had to develop multi-user applications, a portal
system, such as DotNetNuke, is a dream come true. Many
projects required the initial development of the user interface
and its related infrastructure, long before actual functionality
can be instigated. Logging ability, role based-security, menu
systems, these were all major issues that required enormous
amounts of time and effort. DotNetNuke offers the interface
and its related infrastructure already in place; by also using
the Internet it also offers an incredibly sensible way to deliver
the system to its users. With these issues gone the developer
can really start to become creative straight away as systems
such as DotNetNuke have incredible polymorphic properties.