Recomendations for ASP.Net integratable Web CMS

Question

I have a website that includes a home grown CMS system. We are looking for a stronger CMS solution but one that we can integrate into our existing architecture. A CMS that needs to 'own' the whole page is not going to work for us. We wish to have ASP.Net control the pages but insert dynamic content. We are particularly looking to improve the content editing and deployment ease of use.

Any ideas? Good experiences?

Answer 1

While I haven't had much experience with it myself, I've heard good things about DotNetNuke (DNN) http://www.dotnetnuke.com/.

Answer 2

DotNetNuke might work for you, however, to truly integrate any existing content you need to migrate to a user control basis to get your functionality into a "Module" format which is how DNN is used.

Answer 3

I heard about N2 recently. It seems promising regarding the way it could be integrated into an existing ASP.NET (even ASP.NET MVC) application.

It is a growing open source project on Codeplex.

Answer 4

You might consider looking at Sitefinity by Telerik. This CMS is rooted heavily in ASP.NET conventions. A lot of the stuff you use anyway (Master Pages, UserControls, Themes) can be used to extend & customize Sitefinity.

I'm not saying it will be cake, but it's very likely you'll be able to weave your existing CMS content & features into Sitefinity using some custom UserControls.

Sitefinity has an online demo on their web site, it might be worth a look.

Answer 5

DNN if you're looking for a free product. For a full-service CMS, check out Ektron

Answer 6

If you like XSLT, check out Umbraco

Answer 7

Cuyahoga project is looking good. It's a open source, cross platform and the architecture is beautiful. It doesn't have all of the features but it's very easy to build additional modules with easy.