Content Management System Research

The brief; an established, stable and reliable CMS created using .NET Framework 2.0 using C#.

Predictably, content management is a common requirement for web sites and as such, it is estimated that somewhere in excess of 1000 ‘Content Management Systems’ (CMS) have been created, ranging from commercial, feature rich products, to the low budget, to those provided free by web site hosting companies.

I investigated a number of open source applications which present the benefit of free access to the source code and can be further developmed to suit the specific needs.

The plethora of appropriate CMS systems is cut dramatically when applying the following criteria:

• Open Source
• .NET Framework 2.0
• Security
• Reliability
• Quality of code

It's fair to say I struggled to find a contender that satisfied all the requirements, but ultimately proposed DotNetNuke. It offered the most relevant functionality and complied with all but one of the selection criteria, being written in VB.NET rather than the preferred C#.NET.