DotShoppingCart

Many of our customers struggled with the complexity of the software. To set up a full featured ecommerce web site they had to install different software e.g. shopping cart, wiki, blog, forums etc. Even though they might send time and effort to get all the pieces working these different systems work in the silos. The end customers had to use different logins to sign in to the different parts of the web site. Also the site owners had hard time to gather the useful information cross the heterogeneous systems. Now we have a solution for our customers looking for a powerful web site building platform.

Here are the reasons to use DotShoppingCart:

    * Web Site Made Simple
      Easy-to-use site setup and design wizards with pre-designed themes and templates can get your site up and running in minutes.
    * Flexible Customization without Coding or Programming Knowledge
      DotShoppingCart has WYSIWYG HTML editor and block building tools built in. The content management system allows you to create unlimited pages and articles. The innovative block building page editor enables you to customize the look and feel of every single page of your site.
    * Versatile and Feature Rich
      The pluggable modularized architecture meets all your needs to create and manage your web sites. All the functionalities break into the our unique server block framework. Each server block serves a dedicated feature. Many server blocks are integrated e.g. products category list, blog, FAQ, online help, RSS feed, RSS viewer etc. Whether it's a ecommerce business or a family Web site DotShoppingCart is the best one stop shop software for building your site.
    * Stress-free and Scalability
      Hundreds of our customers sites run though our hosted services. We make sure all of these sites get loaded in customers' browser within 1 second on average broadband connections.
    * Search Engine Optimized
      We put a lot of effort into ensuring that DotShoppingCart is optimized for search engines. Whether it’s search friendly URLS or properly structured content or products, you will find that DotShoppingCart was built to help your customers locate your content with ease.

Dropthings : ASP Open source

Dropthings is a open source Web 2.0 Ajax Portal that shows the power of several .NET Framework 3.5 technologies. It supports widget based modularized website, drag and drop personalization of content and an open API for widgets. It is the sample featured in the book, "Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5" and you can use it as a personal portal, a group website, a public portal or as a dashboard for an enterprise that aggregates services from different systems.

Wikipedia Tells : ASP

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. It was initially marketed as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS) via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, but has been included as a free component of Windows Server since the initial release of Windows 2000 Server.

Programming ASP websites is made possible by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functions useful for creating dynamic web pages. In ASP 2.0 there are six such built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server, and Session. Session, for example, is a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page. Web pages with the ".asp" file extension use ASP, although some Web sites disguise their choice of scripting language for security purposes. The ".aspx" extension is not an ASP page, but an ASP.NET page, another server-side scripting language from Microsoft, based on a mixture of traditional ASP, and Microsoft's .NET technology.

Most ASP pages are written in VBScript, but any other Active Scripting engine can be selected instead by using the @Language directive or the <script language="language" runat="server"> syntax. JScript (Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript) is the other language that is usually available. PerlScript (a derivative of Perl) and others are available as third-party installable Active Scripting engines.

History

Previously called dbWeb, and created by Aspect Software Engineering, ASP was one of the first web application development environments that integrated web application execution directly into the web server, 9 months after the release of NeXT's (now Apple) WebObjects. This was done in order to achieve high performance compared to calling external executable programs or CGI scripts which was the most popular method for writing web applications at the time it was introduced. Today there are additional platforms for web application development that are more common on other operating systems. Both JavaServer Pages and PHP are more commonly found on webservers running non-Microsoft operating systems, with PHP currently being the more common of the two. Also of note is ColdFusion, a popular Java technology running on several platforms including Microsoft servers as well as other platforms.

Prior to Microsoft's release of ASP for IIS 3, programmers relied on IDC and HTX files combined with ODBC drivers to display and manipulate dynamic data and pages running on IIS. The basics of these file formats and structures were used, at least in part, in the implementation of the early versions of ASP.

InstantASP and ChiliASP are 3rd party products that run ASP on platforms other than the Microsoft Windows operating systems. Chilisoft (the maker of ChiliASP) was purchased by Sun Microsystems and later renamed "Sun ONE Active Server Pages", then later renamed to "Sun Java System Active Server Pages". It appears that InstantASP is no longer available. There are large open source communities on the internet, such as ASPNuke, which produce ASP scripts, components and applications to be used free under certain license terms.

My Web Pages Starter Kit

The My Web Pages Starter Kit is a dynamic content management system (CMS). It is designed to meet the needs of computer enthusiasts who want to deploy and maintain their own website — and it is also easy to modify the look and feel or even extend the feature set.

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The My Web Pages Site Starter Kit provides the following features:

    * Dynamic Content Management System
          o Easy UI for everyday content management
          o Pre-built components: HTML, Events, Links, Guest Book, Contact Form, Downloads, RSS, Gallery

    * Easily configurable localizations
          o Prepared for localization right from the start. All required resources are to be found in just three files: one for the application and two for the manual.

    * ASP.NET 2.0 based
          o Themes, Masterpages, Data binding, Security, Navigation, Membership provider work as expected.

    * File based
          o No database is used to store data. All data is serialized into XML files within the "App_Data" folder. Of course do SQL Server databases offer great advantages, but we tried to focus on simplicity and decided to use a file based method to store the data.

    * Complete source code available
          o Permissive license and full source code offers flexibility to customize the kit to individual requirements

    * Runs in medium trust
          o No special privileges are required to run the kit in a hosted environment. Aligns with shared hosting environments.

    * Security model
          o Simple user management and access control is included (Custom ASP.NET 2.0 membership provider)

Extended Club Site Starter Kit

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The Extended Club Web Site provides an extended version of the original Club starter kit. New administration pages provide for the management of user roles and of the site map structure. Web Parts allow the user to personalize the home page, and alternative Themes allow the user to select the site’s appearance.

An extended version of the Club Site starter kit that includes a Role Management page, Web Parts, Page management, and Themes.

    * Many user groups want a way to manage the roles of the users through the user interface. To provide for this a role management page has been created to add users, delete users, or move users to roles in the site. In addition to being able to manage the users in roles, you can also create new or delete roles for the entire site.
    * Not every site wants to have their information in the same location. The extended club starter kit has the ability for end users to move data to the location they want on the home page using ASP.NET 2.0 Profiles and ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts.
    * To help manage the pages that are in the site, a management page has been created to update the sitemap file to change the location of a page.
    * Each site might want a different look and feel. The club starter kit has been extended to allow the user to change the ASP.NET 2.0 Theme that is used. This can allow the end user to change the look and feel of the site quickly by just adding a new ASP.NET 2.0 Theme. The extended Club Starter Kit includes 3 themes as examples of a different look and feel. The themes that are provided with the kit are the default Club Starter Kit called Club, a user group theme called DevCow, and a Event site called CodeCamp. This functionality could be extended as well as extending the core functionality of the Club Starter Kit.

Codeplex Club Site Starter Kit

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The Codeplex Club Web Site in an open-source project that enhances the original Club starter kit. The project provides an extended architecture, improved Photo and Blogging components, and better administration options.

The Codeplex Club Site Starter Kit provides the following enhancements over the original Club Site Starter Kit:

    * A full Business Logic Layer
    * Poll Control
    * League Management
    * Rearchitected Forums
    * Better User Administration
    * Improved Photo System
          o Photos on file system
    * Improved Blogging system
          o Member name from Membership Key
          o User's personal blog

The project makes use of the SubSonic toolset.

Club Web Site

Download the Club Web Site Starter Kit
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A starting point for creating a web site for your club or organization. Includes a news posting, calendaring, member directory, and photo album systems.

Create news announcements and news articles with photos or links to a photo album. Create and view Membership lists of club members. Create photo albums and share the photos from your club activities.

 

Create news announcements and news articles with photos or links to a photo album
Event calendaring

    * Create club events viewable as a list or calendar
    * Download events to Outlook or other calendaring application

Event locations

    * Separate pages for club events occurring in different locations
    * Use for directions and facility information

Create photo albums and share the photos from your club activities

Create and view Membership lists of club members

Technologies and Design Approaches Demonstrated:

    * Databound events calendar
    * Customized web controls
    * Data binding

Update!

Visit the Community Projects page and view the “Extended Club Site Starter Kit” created by Brendon Schwartz.

Small Business Web Site

Download the Small Business Site Starter Kit

The Small Business Starter Kit provides a sample of a business promotion website suitable for small and medium-sized businesses. It provides a template for customizing and creating a site for your own business out-of-the-box, with advanced features including integration with SQL and XML data sources for content and data management.

The key pages of the Small Business Site starter kit are:

    * Catalogs
      Display complete range of products and services offered by your business.
    * News
      Press room for the business where the relevant news and press releases can be posted.
    * Testimonials
      Showcase testimonials given by customers regarding their experience with your product or service.
    * People
      Provide summary and in-depth info about the professionals running your business.

The content of each page is dynamically displayed from a data source, making it easy for you to extend the site to suit your particular business. For the catalog pages, you may have arbitrarily nested categories, and items that may belong to multiple categories.

Technologies and design approaches demonstrated:

    * Provider Model
      Use either SQL data sources or XML data sources simply by changing settings in the web.config file.
    * Databinding
      Using ObjectDataSource, DetailsView and GridView controls.
    * Navigation Controls
      TreeView and Menu controls.

BlogEngine.NET

BlogEngine.NET is a full-featured blogging platform that is a breeze to set up, customize, and use. BlogEngine.NET works with your choice of data source; you may use SQL Server, or you may take the plug’n’play approach using XML files.

Overview

    * Plug ’n’ Play
      BlogEngine.NET is very easy to setup and customize. To make it work, just upload the files to an ASP.NET 2.0 webserver and you’re ready to start writing. No database configuration, just plug’n’play.
    * Full Featured
      BlogEngine.NET comes with all the features you would expect from a modern blog engine as well as new unique features such as AJAX comments and screenshot trackbacks.
    * Web 2.0
      BlogEngine.NET features social bookmarks, OpenSearch support, XFN tags, AJAX, Microsummaries, Gravatars, coComments, tag cloud, Google sitemap and other so-called Web 2.0 features.
    * Cool Themes
      BlogEngine.NET comes with some very cool themes for you to choose from. If you want to modify or create a new theme you can do so easily with just a basic understanding of HTML and CSS.
    * XHTML Compliance
      All the controls in BlogEngine.NET are 100% XHTML 1.0 compliant. All posts you write automatically becomes compliant thanks to the tinyMCE text editor.
    * Extendable
      BlogEngine.NET is built from the ground up using nothing but C# and ASP.NET 2.0 all with simplicity in mind. It means that you can write new controls and themes by using the skills you already have as a .NET developer.

 

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DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke is an open source web application framework ideal for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet and extranet sites. The combination of an enterprise portal, built-in content management system, elegant skinning engine, and the ability to display static and dynamic content makes DotNetNuke an essential tool for ASP.NET developers.

Overview

    * Fully dynamic web site allows for an unlimited number of Pages
    * Pages can contain an unlimited number of Content regions and Content types
    * Advanced Content Management enabled via a standard Web Browser
    * Build an online Community with robust Membership Management
    * Secure your Content using advanced Roles and Permissions
    * Multi-tenancy allows for multiple Sites to be hosted from a single installation

 

License

    * Unrestricted Open Source BSD license
    * FREE use in non-commercial and commercial environment

Extensibility

    * Modular architecture enables hundreds of third party plug-in Modules
    * Designer-friendly Skinning engine for total site customization
    * Multiple database support through Providers
    * More than 70 Language Packs to support International users

Support

    * More than 550,000 registered users since Dec 24, 2002
    * Maintained and supported by DotNetNuke Corporation

 

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