ASP.NET 2.0 PayPal Commerce Starter Kit

One of the really cool starter kits that shipped on the web this week is the Commerce Starter Kit built by PayPal.  You can download and learn about it here: http://www.commercestarterkit.org/

It ships as a .vsi download -- which means that if you have Visual Web Developer or VS 2005 installed you can just do "New Web Site", pick the Commerce Starter Kit, and immediately get a working commerce site w/ PayPal payment integration.

The starter kit is a full-blown ASP.NET 2.0 app, and shows off using the new ASP.NET Master Pages, Login/Membership, Role Management, Profile, ObjectDataSource, and data access features.  The end result is a very clean app that is really easy to customize and use.  Best of all it is free.

Enjoy...

- Scott  

Published Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:39 PM by ScottGu

Comments

# re: ASP.NET 2.0 PayPal Commerce Starter Kit

Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:21 AM by Igor
Hi!
I don't have SQL Express on my computer. Can I use this starter kit with MS SQL 2000? Or are the two applications working together?

# re: ASP.NET 2.0 PayPal Commerce Starter Kit

Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:38 PM by scottgu
Hi Igor,

Here is a description of how to configure the ASP.NET Application Services with MS SQL 2000: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/08/25/423703.aspx

Note that SQL Express can be installed on a machine with SQL 2000 (they run side-by-side) -- so that might be something else to consider.

Hope this helps,

Scott

# re: ASP.NET 2.0 PayPal Commerce Starter Kit

Friday, November 11, 2005 2:49 PM by Rob Conery
Thanks for the mention Scott! I wanted to respond to the query about the Database version. SQL Express (as Scott Mentions) is installed with VS but so it should work straight away for you. If you don't want to use Express, the SQL Scripts for the DB are posted in our forum (http://forums.commercestarterkit.org).

# re: ASP.NET 2.0 PayPal Commerce Starter Kit

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:41 PM by Rob Conery
We have released a VB.NET version as well for those folks who don't use C#. It's only the source code for now (no VSI) but that's forthcoming...
Rob