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Re: Popular .NET Web Content Management Systems (CMS) - Open Source

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Post by euroclydon »

If you're a developer, using a CMS quickly becomes grating enough, but for me, using a .NET CMS eventually became unbearable.

After I had a few of these up and running for a couple of years, having implemented custom modules to collect form data, and even going through the trouble to pack the modules up all nice and kosher, when it came time to make a minor change to one of those modules, and I had to find a correct setup of Visual Studio, with all the dependencies, and then compile and deploy the module, just to make a small change, I said: never again do I want to write websites in a compiled language!

Re: Popular .NET Web Content Management Systems (CMS) - Open Source

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Post by megamark16 »

We're a Python/Django shop with a few ASP.NET/C# projects every now and again. We use Django CMS for many of our clients, but we've used Umbraco for a few. It was aweful, the interface is fine for editing content, but building and templating a whole site through a web based client is painful.

Trying to build extensions was daunting, especially with the free version, it seems like they have a Commercial version with a few more developer bells and whistles.

Version control was also a pain, because everything is stored in the database, including templates and styling, so you can't really version control that with an outside VCS (we use Git). And what you CAN put under version control is half binary files anyway, hello conflictville, population you and a bunch of binary conflicts every time you sync.

Overall, I'm in love with Django CMS, and .NET is an old lover whom I don't really want to talk to any more, but she's still in my phone so I know who's calling when she drunk dials me.

Re: Popular .NET Web Content Management Systems (CMS) - Open Source

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Post by rbanffy »

euroclydon wrote: post #3

If you're a developer, using a CMS quickly becomes grating enough, but for me, using a .NET CMS eventually became unbearable. After I had a few of these up and running for a couple of years, having implemented custom modules to collect form data, and even going through the trouble to pack the modules up all nice and kosher, when it came time to make a minor change to one of those modules, and I had to find a correct…

Any good CMS should separate logic, configuration and presentation clearly. If you need to recompile something to change anything less dramatic than the way the CMS works, this separation has been broken.

Re: Popular .NET Web Content Management Systems (CMS) - Open Source

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Post by euroclydon »

megamark16 wrote: post #6

We're a Python/Django shop with a few ASP.NET/C# projects every now and again. We use Django CMS for many of our clients, but we've used Umbraco for a few. It was aweful, the interface is fine for editing content, but building and templating a whole site through a web based client is painful. Trying to build extensions was daunting, especially with the free version, it seems like they have a Commercial version with a…

I forgot about how all of Umbraco's templates are in the DB. Man, I hate that!

Re: Popular .NET Web Content Management Systems (CMS) - Open Source

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Post by Aaronontheweb »

euroclydon wrote: post #3

If you're a developer, using a CMS quickly becomes grating enough, but for me, using a .NET CMS eventually became unbearable. After I had a few of these up and running for a couple of years, having implemented custom modules to collect form data, and even going through the trouble to pack the modules up all nice and kosher, when it came time to make a minor change to one of those modules, and I had to find a correct…

"I had to find a correct setup of Visual Studio"

Perhaps I'm not understanding you correctly, but do you mean by this? You're not talking about project files are you?

Also, if you don't want to upload new binaries for an ASP.NET website, you can add new .CS / .VB files to the App_Code folder which is subject to JIT complilation.

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