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Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

You're reading from   Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit A comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing, and extending the powerful and freely available application from Microsoft.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2004
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811008
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

TrixBox Made Easy
Credits
About the Authors
1. Introduction
1. The ASP.NET Community Starter Kit 2. Touring a Community Starter Kit Website FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating and Administering Community Websites 4. Themes, Skins, and the Common Controls 5. Customizing your Website 6. The Community Starter Kit Core Architecture 7. Inside a CSK Module 8. Creating a New Module 9. Customization with User Controls 10. Adding an RSS Feed 11. Deployment CSK Controls

Module Construction Blueprint


We will take a bottom-up approach by starting with the database work, and finishing with presentation skins and themes. We will follow the naming conventions and patterns established by the existing modules in the CSK so that the code fits well with the rest of the framework. For example, the Books module retrieves book information from the Community_Books table to populate a BookInfo component.

Thus we will use a table called Community_Faqs to populate an FaqInfo component. However, you may want to consider adding a unique identifier in case a future version of the CSK contains the module you are building. For instance, if you work for ABC Inc. you might use Community_ABCFaqs as a table name to lower the possibility of future name collisions.

We will use the following steps to build the FAQ module. You can also follow these steps in a general sense to build your own modules:

  1. 1. Create a new table (Community_Faqs) to hold the additional fields for the new module...

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