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/

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Credits

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

Free Chapter

The ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

The ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

What Can the Community Starter Kit Do for You?

The License Agreement

Installing the Community Starter Kit

Touring a Community Starter Kit Website

Touring a Community Starter Kit Website

Overview of the Community Starter Kit

Overview of the CSK Modules

Common Features in the CSK Modules

Creating and Using User Accounts

Creating and Administering Community Websites

Creating and Administering Community Websites

Using the Community Administration Menu

Themes, Skins, and the Common Controls

Themes, Skins, and the Common Controls

Meeting Themes, Skins, and Styles

Creating Themes

The Community Starter Kit Custom Controls

Customizing your Website

Customizing your Website

Setting up a New Community

Preparing the Folder Structure and the Page Skin

Adding Information

Changing the Layout

The Community Starter Kit Core Architecture

The Community Starter Kit Core Architecture

The CSK Folder Structure and Configuration Files

Building Pages for the Client

Processing the Request in the Middle Tier

The Database Structure

Online CSK Resources

Inside a CSK Module

Inside a CSK Module

Skins and Styles

Creating a New Module

Creating a New Module

Module Construction Blueprint

The Community_Faq Table

The Community_Faqs Stored Procedures

Initializing the FAQ Module

FAQ WebControls

Content Classes

FAQ Page Content Skins

Putting It Together

Customization with User Controls

Customization with User Controls

The Custom Module Section

Custom Web Boxes

Adding an RSS Feed

Adding an RSS Feed

The RSS 2.0 Specification

Community RSS Design

HttpModule Changes and Configuration

CommunityRSS.aspx

Testing the RSS Feed

Advertising the RSS Feed

Deployment

Installing Content Files

Database Deployment

Community Starter Kit Configuration

Working with Other Sites

CSK Controls

Customer Reviews

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Appendix A. CSK Controls

BriefDescription

BriefDescription can be found in the following ContentSkins skin files:

Articles_AddArticle.ascx
Articles_Article.ascx
Books_Book.ascx
Downloads_Download.ascx
Events_Event.ascx
Links_AddLink.ascx
Links_Link.ascx
PhotoGallery_Photo.ascx

ContentList

The ContentList control is used in the following skin files:

ContentSkins:

Articles_ArticleSection.ascx
Books_BookSection.ascx
Discuss_DiscussSection.ascx
Downloads_DownloadSection.ascx
Events_EventSection.ascx
Events_PastEvents.ascx
Links_LinksSection.ascx
Moderation_ModerateSection.ascx
ParentSection_ParentSection.ascx
PhotoGallery_PhotoGallerySection.ascx
Search_Search.ascx
Topics_Topic.ascx

ControlSkins:

Comments_DisplayComments.ascx
Topics_TopicMenu.ascx

TemplateSkins:

Comments_DisplayComments-ItemTemplate-Embedded.ascx
Comments_DisplayComments-ItemTemplate-Nested.ascx
Comments_DisplayComments-ItemTemplate-Threaded.ascx
Discuss_Comments-ItemTemplate-Embedded.ascx
Discuss_Comments-ItemTemplate-Nested.ascx
Discuss_Comments-ItemTemplate-Threaded.ascx

DateCreated

Here are the skin files that use this control:

Articles_Article.ascx
Comments_Comment.ascx
Discuss_Post.ascx
Downloads_Download.ascx
PhotoGallery_Photo.ascx

DisplayQuota

This is used by default in two skin files:

Downloads_AddDownload.ascx
PhotoGallery_AddPhoto.ascx

HtmlTextBox

HtmlTextBox is used by default in the following skin files:

Articles_AddArticle.ascx
Books_AddBook.ascx
Discuss_AddPost.ascx
Downloads_AddDownload.ascx
Events_AddEvent.ascx
HtmlPage_EditHtmlPage.ascx
PhotoGallery_AddPhoto.ascx

ItemReadMoreLink

ItemReadMoreLink is used in the following skin files:

Articles_ArticleSection.ascx
Books_BookSection.ascx
Downloads_DownloadSection.ascx
Events_EventSection.ascx
Events_PastEvents.ascx
Moderation_ModerateSection.ascx

ItemTitleLink

ItemTitleLink is used in the following skin files:

ContentSkins:

Discuss_DiscussSection.ascx
Search_Search.ascx
Topics_Topic.ascx

TemplateSkins:

Comments_DisplayComments-ItemTemplate-Threaded.ascx
Discuss_Comments-ItemTemplate-Threaded.ascx

LengthValidator

LengthValidator is used in the following skin files to limit the length of the brief description textbox:

Articles_AddArticle.ascx
Books_AddBook.ascx
Events_AddEvent.ascx
Links_AddLink.ascx
PhotoGallery_AddPhoto.ascx

PageFooter

PageFooter is implemented in the following content skin files:

Articles_ArticleSection.ascx
Books_BookSection.ascx
Discuss_DiscussSection.ascx
Downloads_DownloadsSection.ascx
Events_EventSection.ascx
Events_PastEvents.ascx
Links_LinksSection.ascx
ParentSection_ParentSection.ascx
PhotoGallery_PhotoGallerySection.ascx

SectionTitle

SectionTitle is used in the following skin files (they are all content skins):

Articles_AddArticle.ascx
Articles_ArticleSection.ascx
Books_AddBook.ascx
Books_BookSection.ascx
Discuss_AddPost.ascx
Discuss_DiscussSection.ascx
Discuss_Post.ascx
Downloads_DownloadsSection.ascx
Events_AddEvent.ascx
Events_EventSection.ascx
Events_PastEvents.ascx
Links_LinksSection.ascx
Moderation_ModerateSection.ascx
ParentSection_ParentSection.ascx
PhotoGallery_AddPhoto.ascx
PhotoGallery_PhotoGallerySection.ascx

Sorter

The Sorter control is used in the following content skin files:

Articles_ArticleSection.ascx
Books_BookSection.ascx
Downloads_DownloadsSection.ascx
Links_LinksSection.ascx
PhotoGallery_PhotoGallerySection.ascx

Title

The Title control is used in the following skin files:

Articles_AddArticle.ascx
Articles_Article.ascx
Books_Book.ascx
Comments_AddComment.ascx
Comments_Comment.ascx
Discuss_AddPost.ascx
Discuss_Post.ascx
Discuss_ReplyPost.ascx
Downloads_Download.ascx
Events_Event.ascx
PhotoGallery_Photo.ascx

UploadValidator

UploadValidator is used in these skin files:

Downloads_AddDownload.ascx
PhotoGallery_AddPhoto.ascx