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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

Custom Web Boxes


There are two types of Web Boxes in the CSK:

  • The global Web Box, which is available to every community on a site and located in the Communities\Common\WebBoxes directory

  • The community-specific Web Box, which will reside in the WebBoxes directory underneath a specific community

There are two global Web Boxes we will implement for our FAQ module from the last chapter. These are the "new" and "popular" Web Boxes available for almost every other module (Articles, Books, and Download, to name a few) in the CSK. These Web Boxes are small bits of content that appear in the periphery of the main content window and are a good way to alert users to new content and draw attention to specific areas of a site. In the following screenshot, we have highlighted two Web Boxes, Quote.ASCX (community-specific) and New Photos.ASCX (global):

Let’s complete our FAQ module by adding the new FAQ and popular FAQ Web Boxes.

FAQ Web Boxes

Some of the work we need to do to display new and popular FAQs...