DotNetNuke® Web Application Starter Kit

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.

TheBeerHouse: CMS and E-commerce Starter Kit

TheBeerHouse starter kit enables you to implement a website with functionality typically associated with a CMS/e-commerce site. This website demonstrates key features of ASP.NET 2.0 and is the sample used in the book, “ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming / Problem - Design - Solution.”

Paypal eCommerce Starter Kit

The PayPal-enabled eCommerce Starter Kit is an extensible open source web application that allows you to setup and manage your own ecommerce Web site.

BlogEngine.NET Starter Kit

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.

Small Business 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.

Personal Site Starter Kit

A typical personal site that includes a photo album system. Also included are static pages for a resume and links. Comes in your choice of white or black... just change the theme!

Club Site Starter Kit

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.

Codeplex Club Site Starter Kit

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.

Extended Club Site Starter Kit

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.

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.

Time Tracker Starter Kit

A business web application for keeping track of hours spent on a project with the ability to handle multiple resources as well as multiple projects.

Classifieds Site Starter Kit

The Classifieds Site Starter Kit provides a complete, ready to run, fully customizable, Web site for listing and managing classified advertisements.

Job Site Starter Kit

Job Site Starter Kit is a web application that provides a platform for candidates seeking job and the employers to share their needs. The starter kit demonstrates many new features of ASP.NET 2.0 including themes, master pages, new data controls, membership, roles and profiles.

Media Library Starter Kit

The Media Share Library Starter Kit enables you to easily create an application that allows registered users to present a collection of media items (such as movie DVDs, music CDs, books, and more) for other registered users to borrow.

Kigg Starter Kit

Kigg is a Digg like application developed with ASP.NET MVC Framework, LINQ to SQL and ASP.NET AJAX.

ITracker: Inventory Tracking System

ITracker provides a system to track inventory of any product type. The home page presents a reminder notice should an item’s quantity falls below its reorder point. Items and vendors can be located through search pages. Help pages show you how the sample is built, and hint at how you can extend it for your own specific use.

Visit the iTracker Web Site

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dasBlog

dasBlog is a blogging engine that offers elegant visual aesthetics, powerful easy to use features, and a unique application architecture. dasBlog requires no database engine, using file-based content management with an architecture that ensures excellent performance.

Visit the dasBlog Web Site

dashCommerce

dashCommerce is a very flexible and robust product that incorporates all three major components of an e-commerce application: a product catalog, a shopping cart, and an order fulfillment system.

Visit the dashCommerce Web Site

DinnerNow.net

A fictitious marketplace where customers can order food from local restaurants for delivery to their home or office. This sample application is designed to demonstrate how you can develop a connected application using several new Microsoft technologies, including: IIS7, ASP.NET Ajax Extensions, Linq, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Powershell, and the .NET Compact Framework.

Visit the DinnerNow.net Web Site

Dropthings.com

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.

Visit the Dropthings.com Web Site

FlexWiki

FlexWiki is an ASP.NET Wiki application and perhaps the best known application of its type for ASP.NET. It uses a file based content repository or an optional SQL Server based repository.

Visit the FlexWiki Web Site

ScrewTurn Wiki

ScrewTurn Wiki is a fast, powerful and simple ASP.NET wiki engine, installs in a matter of minutes and it’s available in different packages, fitting every need. It’s even free and open source.

Visit the ScrewTurn Wiki Web Site

Splendid CRM

Splendid CRM is a commercial Customer Relationship Management application that offers a free, open-source version as well as a Professional (paid license) version that includes all the database code for enterprise integration.

Visit the Splendid CRM Web Site

Subtext

Subtext is a personal blog publishing platform that focuses on usability, elegance, and simplicity. If you’ve ever caught yourself throwing your hands in the air and declaring that you’re going to write your own blogging engine, then Subtext is for you.

Visit the Subtext Web Site

Umbraco

A Content Management Platform (CMS) written in c# on the Microsoft .NET platform. It's fast, flexible and with a user interface that makes it a charm to use.

Visit the Umbraco Web Site

Yet Another Forum

Yet Another Forum is a discussion forum application that is available for stand-alone installation or as a module for DotNetNuke. The application is easy to install utilizing its web-based installer and some simple edits to the web.config file.

Visit the Yet Another Forum Web Site