I'm currently using the TBH kit for a major development for shopping carts on Glacsy.com. If you could see the things I have done to TBH, it's more complicated now than the original kit. If you know what you're doing, it's not that hard to restucture the kit
(turning on/off features). I stripted the kit into 2 major areas/sites. All the "Community" relate feature are on the Community site and all store feature are on the, well store site. Then the admin areas/features, I create a whole site just for administration
(including all other needed admins) totaling - splitting TBH in 3 different sites. I've also included/add an extra section in the store (like Departments, "Categories", and Products) rather than the original (Departments and Products). Now, I'm trying the
replace all Gridviews with Datalists with custom paging/sorting in the store. Lots of work, lots of fun...
Ray Linder
Glacsy | Glacsy.com
raylinder@glacsy.com
consider doing a thoroughly modular solution like DOTNET NUKE allowing developers to use only what they want, enable and disable modules as needed.
I came to see TBH because I am C# developer and the RainbowPortal for ASP.NET2.0 is still in beta version, the community (discussions or answers to problems) is practically absent.
As I understand DOTNET NUKE is n VB.NET only?
Does DOTNETNUKE have (or permit) modules in C#?
Gennady Vanin (Novosibirsk) -- Геннадий Ванин (Новосибирск) -- Guennadi Vanine
I am reading this book and I must agree with the guys that said that hi book isn't for the beginners.
I am an ASP.NET beginner but I have some programming experience. Some of you said that this kit isn't really modular. I am not really sure if I understand what you mean. Could you please show me a kit that is modular?
I would like to see how a modular starter kit looks like.
Hey whats a module is everybody refering to code or is it something like... say for instance a webpart or even a contact page that has been created by the wizard... oohh! MR. Wizard lol. Because if it is the later why can't you turn it off by going into
the sitemap and comment out the page to turn it off.
A modular application is well, modular, meaning that it is more like webparts or self contained applications that are included in an app. For example, say you are building a CMS, you can include a Guestbook, A forum, A blog and ofcouse the news module.
Now not everyone wants all these features. Instead of commenting them out, you simply don't include them. You disable them, but hey are still there. Let's say 2 years later you change your mind and now want to include those features, you simply go to the admin
section of your site and turn them on and bingo, they are available.
You also decide to only run one module of a big application. Take a look at Community server,it is a blog, a forum, Cms, Picture app etc. Most people only use the blog module. A truely modular application will allow you to rip any one module and run it as
a stand alone application.
Ok, as for the Pros and Cons of BeerHOuse, it depends on how advanced you are. For a professional developer, you can use this TBH kit as a framework for a world class application. It is a well built tool designed to showcase the depts you can push .Net
framework.
Also, with a little modifications, you can modularize it and use it for a very well built CMS.
For a beginner, the most you can learn from it is how to build good applications, assuming you uderstand C#,
raylinder
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Apr 03, 2007 04:05 AM|LINK
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Apr 03, 2007 07:16 AM|LINK
I finally got the Datalist to view products and replaced all Gridviews. Now it's just getting the custom paging to work...
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guenavan
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Apr 29, 2007 12:45 AM|LINK
I came to see TBH because I am C# developer and the RainbowPortal for ASP.NET2.0 is still in beta version, the community (discussions or answers to problems) is practically absent.
As I understand DOTNET NUKE is n VB.NET only?
Does DOTNETNUKE have (or permit) modules in C#?
tarjoadi
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Jun 21, 2007 04:04 AM|LINK
Hi there,
I am reading this book and I must agree with the guys that said that hi book isn't for the beginners.
I am an ASP.NET beginner but I have some programming experience. Some of you said that this kit isn't really modular. I am not really sure if I understand what you mean. Could you please show me a kit that is modular?
I would like to see how a modular starter kit looks like.
Adrian
fgoodrum
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Jun 26, 2007 03:16 PM|LINK
Yes, DNN does support c# when developing new modules.
DKB
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Jul 08, 2007 02:11 PM|LINK
Hey whats a module is everybody refering to code or is it something like... say for instance a webpart or even a contact page that has been created by the wizard... oohh! MR. Wizard lol. Because if it is the later why can't you turn it off by going into the sitemap and comment out the page to turn it off.
DKB
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Jul 08, 2007 02:20 PM|LINK
With all that has been written is anyone going to list the pros and cons I think I missed them.
DKB
yousaid
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Sep 28, 2007 02:00 AM|LINK
A modular application is well, modular, meaning that it is more like webparts or self contained applications that are included in an app. For example, say you are building a CMS, you can include a Guestbook, A forum, A blog and ofcouse the news module. Now not everyone wants all these features. Instead of commenting them out, you simply don't include them. You disable them, but hey are still there. Let's say 2 years later you change your mind and now want to include those features, you simply go to the admin section of your site and turn them on and bingo, they are available.
You also decide to only run one module of a big application. Take a look at Community server,it is a blog, a forum, Cms, Picture app etc. Most people only use the blog module. A truely modular application will allow you to rip any one module and run it as a stand alone application.
Ok, as for the Pros and Cons of BeerHOuse, it depends on how advanced you are. For a professional developer, you can use this TBH kit as a framework for a world class application. It is a well built tool designed to showcase the depts you can push .Net framework.
Also, with a little modifications, you can modularize it and use it for a very well built CMS.
For a beginner, the most you can learn from it is how to build good applications, assuming you uderstand C#,
Hope this helps
yousaid
joe_zaro
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Apr 25, 2008 03:09 PM|LINK
Did you ever resolve this issue with the Shopping Cart checkout of the Beer House started kit?
Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
thanks,
digital_crea...
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Re: What are the Pros and Cons of TheBeerHouse Starter Kit?
Apr 26, 2008 10:32 PM|LINK
I've started another thread that I think is related to this problem:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1253426.aspx