Web Content Management Using Umbraco

This chapter is about building ASP.NET Core website projects that integrate with Umbraco CMS, a popular third-party web content management system. However, it is important to understand what this chapter does and does not cover with regard to Umbraco content management system (CMS).

The audience for this book is .NET developers. This chapter focuses on covering what a .NET developer needs to know about Umbraco CMS. That includes knowing how to integrate Umbraco CMS with an ASP.NET Core project and knowing what features are built in and therefore do not need to be created by the developer. This chapter is not about how a senior marketer might use Umbraco CMS to design the branding of a website or how a junior marketer might use Umbraco CMS to create or edit web pages of content.

As a .NET developer tasked with enabling and possibly extending Umbraco CMS, you should know some of the basic capabilities that are built in so that if you are...