Building Wikis with ASP.NET.
Rod Paddock.
NET234
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A WIKI is an online editable web site. Simple database. CaMel Words become Links. Links become links.
Http://www.dotenetwiki.com
If WIKIs see a camel notated work it will create a link to that page.
Can modify a linked word with description.
Project management uses...?
Have a Sandbox category.
- Create topic TheDataAccessProject.
- Add description
- Add UseCases
- Add OracleDataAcces, SQLServerDataAccess, etc.
Code Magazine has a wiki.
WIKIs created by Ward Cunningham.
A lot of wikis at MS Channel 9.
Wiki is a Hawaiian name for "fast"
Opensource wiki at http://www.openwiki.com.
Wiki components:
- Parser to turn text into links
- Database to store topics and history
- Front End - basic pages for viewing, editing, and searching
Parser Goals
- Parse Camel Words, URLs, and Tags (to prevent <object><script>etc tags)
- Split() function to parse the text to create words, then parse the words/tags.
Database
- Two tables. Topics and Topicrevisions
- Five procs: addtopics, findtopics, findrecenttopics, gettopic, getcategory
Rod showed a list of wikis (forgot URL) in many different languages. Will find it.
Demonstrated categorization.
Covered optional authentication techniques.
Summary: It was great to have a session on WIKI! I hadn’t gotten it until Rod’s session. 9 out of 10.