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 Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

 

Published by: PACKT PUBLISHING
Author: Cristian Darie, K. Scott Allen
Number of pages: 268
Group: ASP.NET
ISBN: 1904811000/9781904811008
User level: Programmer - Beg/Int
Objective: Reference
Date Published: May 2004
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A comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing and extending the powerful and freely available application from Microsoft.

FEATURES AT A GLANCE

• Learn .NET architecture through building real world examples

• Understand, implement and extend the Community Starter Kit

• Learn to create and customize your own website

• Develop the confidence to implement and extend the system

• This book is written for ASP.NET developers with a sound grasp of C#

 

This book is a complete and practical guide helping you to deliver content rich community driven web sites based on the freely available ASP.NET Community Starter Kit from Microsoft. It is aimed at experienced ASP.NET developers with the responsibility of delivering robust and feature rich web sites, fast and effectively.

 

IN DETAIL

Microsoft's ASP.NET Community Starter Kit (CSK) is a powerful, freely-available application that allows you to quickly create a fully-featured community-driven web site, complete with article and news management, downloads, forums, and user handling.

Supported and tested by thousands of developers in the ASP.NET community across the world, the Community Starter Kit offers you the luxury of a scalable and extensible architecture, and the ability to brand your own site.

This book will take you inside the Community Starter Kit, allowing you to harness its power for easily creating your own Websites.

The book is structured to help you understand, implement and extend the Community Starter Kit:

• Understand how the Community Starter Kit works.

• Build the skills to implement your own site.

• Develop the confidence to extend the system for your own needs.

What you will learn from this book

• Install and configure the CSK

• Find your way around the CSK’s towering range of features

• Create and administer community web sites

• Become familiar with the common CSK ASP.NET controls

• Customize your CSK site

• Discover the secrets of the CSK core architecture

• Explore the inner workings of CSK modules

• Extend the CSK by creating new modules

• Customize existing modules with Web controls

• Add an RSS feed to share your content with others

• Deploy your CSK Web site

 

Approach

This book isn’t written as a standard tutorial, it has been broken down into two halves to give you full understanding of the Community Starter Kit and then the confidence to create, administer and customize your own site. The second half of the book includes plenty of code, but the emphasis is firmly on guiding you through the techniques to create, extend and customize your own module.

Who this book is written for

This book has been written for ASP.NET developers with a sound grasp of C# and access to Visual Studio .NET. This book uses the Visual Studio. NET version of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit