AuctionSite Starterkit Alpha Release

Just a quick plug to the community.  I've gotten to the Alpha release of my AuctionSite Starterkit and have published a release on Codeplex

http://www.codeplex.com/auctionsk

It's designed and produced in .net 3.5 utilizing some cool features like LINQ, the new Listview, the .NET membership, full CSS design and some other goodies like some Ajax sections.  It's freely available for download, take it - use it - abuse it.  Its designed to give users a good start in the LINQ world, with a real world application on a smaller scale.  It's database is extensible, and pages have been intentionally kept simple and straight forward, so they can be modified, tailored.

I'll be continuing to update it it through a stable release, then refactoring some of the "goofier" sections.

Have Fun!

Published Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:46 PM by Freakyuno
Filed under: , , , , ,

Comments

# re: AuctionSite Starterkit Alpha Release

Saturday, December 01, 2007 10:28 PM by MikeBosch

The web application has no register.aspx page?

# re: AuctionSite Starterkit Alpha Release

Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:58 AM by Paraag Kantharia

Hi,

When can we expect alive demo.

It would be nice to see a working demo already uploaded.

May be we can have this after beta release.

# re: AuctionSite Starterkit Alpha Release

Sunday, December 02, 2007 8:41 AM by Freakyuno

Mike:  You're right, it does not at the moment.  I normally use the built in - so I put it in as one of the last things I do.  I'll get it into the next source control checkin.

Paraag:  I'll get a live demo up today.

# re: AuctionSite Starterkit Alpha Release

Sunday, December 02, 2007 8:25 PM by IronRuby

Hi,

Great Thing coming from Community.

You have still mentioned the language of the Auction Site. Is it is C# or VB.Net.

How about offering the code in both the languages as Microsoft does.

With any one language support, you will be helping only 1 part of Asp.net world.

Hope i am not asking for more

# re: AuctionSite Starterkit Alpha Release

Sunday, December 02, 2007 8:42 PM by Freakyuno

Sorry, you make a very good point.  The kit is entirely in VB at the moment.  When I get to my first production release I'll release it in C# and VB.NET.

Thanks for the comment!

# re: AuctionSite Starterkit Alpha Release

Monday, December 03, 2007 11:51 PM by IronRuby

Hi There,

May i suggest something based on my experience with .Net since years.

Rather than putting much work on this Starter kit, i think you should go with this starter kit with the Asp.Net MVC way.

MVC was the most demanded support from community and finally the prayers are heard by MS.

We already have many starter kits since long and now after the first CTP withing few days with a live go away licence, many websites would be build only with MVC. I can assure you atleast 65% going the MVC way.

MVC is not a hype, its the preferred way to go, and thats the reason Asp>net has hired best of experts in this field.

I think you should think on this, ask opinions from others and go the right way with the right approach and that is MVC.

If you go the MVC way, this would be the first StarterKit with MVC.

Please read Scottgu blogs for more on MVC.

Thanks

# re: AuctionSite Starterkit Alpha Release

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 7:48 AM by Freakyuno

Thanks for the comments IronRuby.

I'm familiar with the MVC framework, and will take that into consideration.  To give you an idea though, this starterkit isnt much work. ;)  

I've built the entire thing this far in about a week.

I'll see if I can get some MVC stuff published sometime soon.  I think you're over estimating the community support for it though. It's a pretty cool new technology I agree, but it's mainly geared towards teams that want to develop websites using a TDD methodology, and that was extremly difficult in a class web application style.