By the Community, For the Community - Club Starter Kit Extended

Brendon Schwartz — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:33:01 GMT

****UPDATED**** The files and source have been put on codeplex to allow for more imporvements and better discussions.

This is the first draft of the code for Extending the club starter kit. Feel free to download it and send me bug or feed back.

Third Sample: Extended Club Site Starter Kit

An extended version of the club site starter kit that includes a Role Management page, WebParts, Page management, and Themes.

http://www.asp.net/default.aspx?tabindex=6&tabid=50

The Microsoft starter kits are designed to give a starting point and examples on how to use technologies. The Club Starter kit is a sample that can be used to provide a simple user group site with built in functionality. One of the great advantages of the starter kits is that you can extend their funcationality. To demonstrate more of the new features and an example of how to extend the starter kit, we will create more funcationality with the Club Starter Kit. Many user groups want a way to manage the roles of the users through the User Interface. To provide for this a role management page has been created to add users, delete users, or move users to roles in the site. In addition to being able to manage the users in roles, you can also create new or delete roles for the entire site. Not every site wants to have their information in the same location. The extended club starter kit has the ability for end users to move data to the location they want on the home page using ASP.NET 2.0 Profiles and ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts. To help manage the pages that are in the site, a management page has been created to update the sitemap file to change the location of a page. Each site might want a different look and feel. The club starter kit has been extended to allow the user to change the ASP.NET 2.0 Theme that is used. This can allow the end user to change the look and feel of the site quickly by just adding a new ASP.NET 2.0 Theme. The extended Club Starter Kit includes 3 themes as examples of a different look and feel. The themes that are provided with the kit are the default Club Starter Kit called Club, a user group theme called DevCow, and a Event site called CodeCamp. This funcationality could be extended as well as extending the core funcationality of the Club Starter Kit.

DevCowAlarmClock

Brendon Schwartz — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:52:17 GMT

The original code sample for this code is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/inthebox/SysTrayAlClock/default.aspx

Creating an Alarm Clock in the System Tray
Arian Kulp

I have added the following features:
1) Show remaining time until the alarm
2) Determine a time in future (note: only uses Minutes right now) *no error handling yet
3) Ability to control if the rollover happens or not

Features I would like, but didn't get to:
1) Have the ability to have a snooze button

Always On Top Calendar

Brendon Schwartz — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:02:09 GMT

This calendar will stay on top other applications and allow you to view each day or month. Great when filling out time sheets or planning events.

Here is what it looks like

Apps

By the Community, For the Community - Club Starter Kit Extended

Third Sample: Extended Club Site Starter Kit

DevCowAlarmClock

Always On Top Calendar