Extended Club Starter Kit

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Extended Club Starter Kit

• Brendon Schwartz

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About Me

• Wintellect Consultant
• Microsoft MVP ASP.NET
• Atlanta .NET Regular Guys
• Creator DevCow.com
• Developer Extended Club Starter Kit
• Vice President of Technology, INETA

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Agenda

• What are Starter Kits
• Examples of Starter Kits
• Club Starter Kit today
• Extended Club Starter Kit
• New Functionality
• Resources

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What are Starter Kits

• FREE fully functional sample applications
• Released for ASP.NET 2.0
• Two purposes
• Learn ASP.NET 2.0
• View how to perform common tasks
• Provides complete functionality
• Well-documented to be used right away!

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Examples of Starter Kits

• Anyone can create a Starter Kit
• ASP.NET Team Starter Kits
• Time Tracker Web Site
• Personal Web Site
• Club Web Site
• Community Supported Starter Kits
• Paypal eCommerce Web Site
• DotNetNuke Portal Web Site

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Small Business Site Starter Kit
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Small Business Site Starter Kit

• Provides out-of-the-box template for businesses
• Content Management
• Integration with SQL Server
• Data management with XML data sources
• Suitable for Small and Medium sized businesses

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DotNetNuke
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DotNetNuke

• Fully dynamic web site allows for an unlimited
  number of Pages
• Content Management functionality
• Membership Management
• Secure Content using Roles and Permissions
• Extensible modular architecture

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Club Starter Kit
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Club Starter Kit

• Create News announcements
• Create News articles
• Event Calendars
• Event Locations
• Photo Albums
• Membership lists of club members

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Why use the Club Starter Kit

• Quick start for clubs to have an online site
• Most required functionality available
• Good starting point
• Easy to understand code
• Ability to extend and enhance

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Demo

• Club Starter Kit

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Extended Club Starter Kit
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Key Features Added

• Administrative pages
• User Role Management
• Web Parts on the home page
• Themes allow changes in site appearance
• Page management
• 3 Themes provided
• Club Starter Kit
• DevCow
• CodeCamp

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Web Part Framework

• Personalize Page Content
• Personalize Page Layout
• Provided on a per page basis
• Must contain Web Part Zones
• Starter Kit only contains web parts on home page
• Individual view available in Starter Kit
• Ability to place information on the page

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Demo

• Home Page Web Parts

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Page Management

• Uses AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider
• By default uses Web.sitemap for configuration
• Starter Kit directly modifies Web.sitemap
• Ability to Move Up, Move Down, Make Child, Make
  Sibling
• Prevents making page the root node
• AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider is sealed

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Demo

• Move Pages with Site

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Extended Role Management

• Biggest improvement to the Starter Kit
• First user to log in is added to the
  Administrators group
• Page to Add/Remove Roles
• Ability to Manage users in Roles
• Add/Remove users with User Interface

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Demo

• Demonstrate Role Management

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Club Site Themes

• Ability to change Site Theme from UI
• Current theme stored in Database
• ASP.NET themes must be set in PreInit
• Starter Kit has a base page class to provide
  functionality
• Themes elements
• Skins
• Cascading style sheets (CSS)
• Images
• Other resources

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Demo

• Modifying Starter Kit Themes

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System Additions

• Changed pages to use CodeBehind
• Master Page changes
• WebPartManager added as first element
• Dropdown list for selecting web part view
• Used the standard ASP.NET menu control
• New site level database table
• Additions used ASP.NET controls not client side
  script

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Future Additions

• Completion of ASP.NET Menu Adapter
• Ability to add new pages
• Provide upload of web parts
• Import new themes
• Have multiple sub sites
• Much, much more

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Not A Complete Application

• Starter Kits do not have application installers
• Must create and build the application in Visual
  Studio
• Most provide basic functionality

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Other Starter Kits

• Starter Kits provided for all .NET programming
• Windows Starter Kits
• Shareware Starter Kit
• Web Log Analyzer Starter Kit
• Application specific .NET Starter Kits
• Skype Wrapper for .NET
• Lego Mindstorms Starter Kit
• Movie Collection Manager Starter Kit

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Resources

• Visual Studio 2005 Starter Kits -
  http//msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/starte
  rkits/
• Starter Kits for Visual Web Developer -
  http//www.asp.net/downloads/starterkits/default.a
  spx?tabid62
• DevCow Files (Extended Club Kit)-
  http//devcow.com/files/default.aspx
• MSDN ASP.NET - http//msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/as
  p.net/default.aspx
• Scott Guthrie's Blog - http//weblogs.asp.net/scot
  tgu/default.aspx