Language English
Paperback 268 pages [197mm x 210mm]
Release date May 2004
ISBN 1904811000
ISBN 13 978-1-904811-00-8
Author(s) Cristian Darie, K. Scott Allen
Topics and Technologies Microsoft & .NET

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 website, 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.

With this book, you will learn how to:

• Install and configure the CSK
• Find your way around the CSKs towering range of features
• Create and administer community websites
• 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 website

This book is 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 available from http://www.asp.net/StarterKits/

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.

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.

Cristian Darie
Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies, and the author of numerous books, including his popular AJAX and PHP book by Packt, his ASP.NET E-Commerce book, by APress and his forthcoming SEO book for PHP developers by Wrox Press. Cristian is studying distributed application architectures for his PhD, and is getting involved with various commercial and research projects. When not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. If you want to say "hi", you can reach Cristian through his personal website at http://www.cristiandarie.ro.

K. Scott Allen
K. Scott Allen is the Chief Software Architect for Medisolv, Inc and holds MCP and MCSD certifications. In 12 years of software development Scott has worked on everything from real time firmware in 8 bit embedded devices to highly scalable Internet applications connecting COM+ and J2EE components with web services. Living in Hagerstown, Maryland, Scott tries to play as much softball as possible during the summer. Scott is a cofounder of the site http://www.OdeToCode.com, a .NET developer resource built using the Community Starter Kit.