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I want to develop my blog website in ASP.NET. What could be the best way I can write my blog through?
I mean will Tiny MCE work for me, last time when I used it I faced terrible formatting issues. Because my blog will include code, different formatting, pictures etc. Please suggest me how to post blog?
I am using ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2005.
Why write your own from scratch? Take a look at Orchard CMS. It's an opensource .NET CMS being developed with help from Microsoft http://www.orchardproject.net/
Its fairly new, so there's still some features missing, but its really easy to get setup and since you're a .NET developer you can add your own functionality.
I agree with Jamiegs. Blogging is by and large a solved problem. Why not use an existing package? Most packages will include much more than anything you'd put together in your spare time not to mention that you'll benefit from all of the field testing too.
I settled on hosted Wordpress and just pointed my domain there. Hosted Wordpress is somewhat more limited than self-hosted (you can't install your own themes, etc...) but I've hardly found it restrictive. Their documentation around the various shortcodes for displaying source code or embedding maps is pretty complete.
I have been using Obout's html editor almost a year now without any problems. http://obout.com/editor_new/sample_full.aspx . Ajax Toolkit has free lite version of Obout's editor.
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I was tasked to create a new Website - to make it similar to Facebook. ( were talking without games) so a standart backend with CMS for media sites.
I am familiar with VS'12, asp.net MVC3 & 4 C# or Vb.net , html5 and other languages and feel fit to start this.
What i wanted to know is if there is any Template, Backends, Nuget Packages, Open Source Applications out there for Visual Studio so I don't have to recreate the wheel?
I have looked where i know to look so a great answer would be a Template, Backend, Nuget Package and where you found it. Or possibly another method of getting started that i didn't list / am not aware of
Please do not come back at me with any PHP templates, for i would not be interested in it.
Thanks in advance.
Take a look here: MonoX
Free ASP.NET Content Management and Social Networking Platform
MonoX comes with everything you need to build advanced social networks.
MonoX includes very powerful content management functionality.
Mono Software provides MonoX blogs, tutorials and support forums.
This is something I'd recommend.
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I am looking for an open source CMS for ASP.NET MVC. I have found MvcCms, N2, and AtomicCMS. I'm looking for any advice, anecdotes, resources or articles comparing the different open source projects so I can find the best one for my project. I'd like to find information about the features, extensibility, relative reliability and continued development of the different projects. Thanks guys.
You ought to look at Orchard CMS. It was released a few days ago, so still in its infancy. We are having a very close look as most clients want this kind of thing.
Orchard is open source, but it is part of Microsoft's push for MVC 3. So there are a lot of very good brains behind it.
On the other hand, there is a rule whereby you only take an MS product seriously when version 3 comes out. What I think you will find is that they will rattle out the versions quite quickly, so I would bet on this one.
To date, we use Telerik Sitefinity for all CMS. The pros are that it uses master pages, so no new skills. The cons, it is slow and I have found it tedious to customise.
Still, it delivers good websites. For example, one we did (still under development):
Preston Reid Travel Agency
It is entirely updated by the staff who definitely NOT technically minded.
However, Sitefinity is not MVC, so I will get increasingly out of date with it, plus you have to pay for commercial sites (from US$ 499).
Orchard is free and will get a big community eco system, so will evolve quickly. I suspect Orchard will kill off all the other free MVC CMS.
That's my bet, and it has always paid to bet on Microsoft...
I can find a few listed and compared here; have a look. Hope it helps.
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C# simple open source desktop application to learn from?
I'm trying to learn C#, but most of the times I found tutorials for non programmers which are pretty boring, or comparission with other lenguages.
I tried to compile an application that look nice enough as to call my attention and simple enough ( at first glance ) as to be understood by me, but it turns out it was developed in Mono.
I've downloaded VS for C# express edition in the past, but didn't knew what to do next with it.
So my question is:
Does anyone knows about a simple open source Windows Application developed in C# I can learn from?
It doesn't have to be too simple, but most of the ones I've looked so far are pretty complex, since they are production ready.
Thanks
If you dont mind wpf, try BabySmash
These aren't desktop applications but they are good open source web applications done mostly in C# that you could learn from.
http://www.asp.net/community/projects/
Have you tried looking at SourceForge or Code Project?
check out http://www.codeplex.com
There are a lot of sample apps for both winforms and WPF over at windowsclient.net. I'm not sure I would call any of them a reference application, but there sure are a lot of them. :)
I've had tremendous luck with Microsoft's SharePoint, and extending it was a lot of fun and very educational WRT c# and learning to use it. Check out pilothouseconsulting's development dvd for a lot of good initial information on setting up a debugger and such.
A very simple command line grep tool I put on google code. You may find that interesting.
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I need to connect to an Exchange-Server and to read some values, that a third party application stores there (BlackBerry Enterprise Server).
In my understanding I need to use CDO with C++ (C# doesn't seem to work this well in this regard). Is that right? I tried searching a little, but there seems to be lot of different approaches with a lot of different APIs and the whole topic confuses me a little.
Can anyone point me to some resources or tell me where to start?
Thanks!
You have a few options based on the version of Exchange you are using.
If you are running Exchange 2007
Exchange Web Services - Language agnostic approach to communicating with Exchange and the primary method moving forward. Googling EWS will return lots of good hits with tutorials and information in addition to the numerous books.
An example from Microsoft
If you are running Exchange 2003 or earlier
WebDAV is a simple way to access Exchange as Marc recommend. There are lots of good tutorials on the web for it as well. It is also language agnostic like EWS.
Dan's WebDAV 101 Blog - a blog I've used in the past for WebDAV & EWS info.
Any version of Exchange
If C++ is an option, there's also MAPI. If you're not familiar with MAPI programming, it's going to be a little bit of a learning curve, but you can do just about anything to a mailbox and it's contents. MAPI isn't supported in C#.
It's been at least three years since I worked on this problem, but it seemed to me like the best solution was C# with WebDAV. Rather than try to explain code I don't really remember, here's a link to a tutorial I wrote at the time. Definitely check out the links at the end, I remember they were very helpful in understanding how the technology worked.
Thanks for the answers guys!
However I ended up downloading a little tool called MFCMapi from codeplex and using the provided source code as a guide on how to do things.
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I am looking for some (preferably) online tutorials on making controls with 'Rich design-time support'
By Rich design time support i mean like how the menustrip works on a form and such.
Any links to websites, good books or code samples (c# or vb.net) would be great.
You can start with Dissecting A C# Application which goes into many aspects of creating SharpDevelop, C# IDE written in .NET. This covers many aspects of the designer architecture and it is free in a PDF. However, the PDF is hard to find (original links no longer work, but I believe this is a valid copy).
While that will get you started on the ins and outs of the designer, it probably doesn't go into detail on some of the more interesting features such as actions and tasks. For this, MSDN has some extensive information and examples (it didn't used to).
Finally, I find the best resource to be .NET Reflector. Using this tool to look at how Microsoft has done it in various places within the framework has been a great learning exercise when working in design-time support areas. Find a control that does what you want and then go see how it does it.
All of these resources are free, however your time is not. I have found that design-time support can be a breeze in some areas but a complete nightmare in others. Good luck.