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Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

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Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

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Overview of this book

Microsoft's ASP.NET Community Starter Kit (CSK) is a powerful, freely available application that allows you to quickly create a fully featured community-driven website, complete with article and news management, downloads, forums, and user handling. Supported and tested by thousands of developers in the ASP.NET community across the world, the Community Starter Kit offers you the luxury of a scalable and extensible architecture, and the ability to brand your own site. This book will take you inside the Community Starter Kit, allowing you to harness its power for easily creating your own websites. The book is structured to help you understand, implement and extend the Community Starter Kit: Understand how the Community Starter Kit works. Build the skills to implement your own site. Develop the confidence to extend the system for your own needs. With this book, you will learn how to: Install and configure the CSK Find your way around the CSKs towering range of features Create and administer community websites Become familiar with the common CSK ASP.NET controls Customize your CSK site Discover the secrets of the CSK core architecture Explore the inner workings of CSK modules Extend the CSK by creating new modules Customize existing modules with Web controls Add an RSS feed to share your content with others Deploy your CSK website This book is for ASP.NET developers with a sound grasp of C# and access to Visual Studio .NET. This book uses the Visual Studio. NET version of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit available from http://www.asp.net/StarterKits/
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
TrixBox Made Easy
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction
CSK Controls

Database Deployment


To deploy the CSK you will need to create a database with all of the necessary objects (tables, stored procedures, and so on) for your production website. In addition, you may want to copy the records and data stored in your development database to the server. In this section we will examine how to achieve this by using Data Transformation Services (DTS), using Backup / Restore features of SQL Server, and using just SQL script.

DTS Deployment

In this DTS walkthrough, we will create a new database on our production server for the CSK and move all objects and data from our development database. To begin, start the SQL Server Enterprise Manager. Right-click the development database, select All Tasks, and select Export Data. This should bring up the DTS Import/Export Wizard.

In the Choose a Data Source step of the DTS wizard, your development database should already be selected, so click Next. In Choose a destination, enter the connection parameters to connect to the production...