I am planning to start a new social networking website. What should i use for development? Should i use ASP.Net with some silverlight or should i go for a full silverlight app and use MEF?
Oh yes, it works perfectly! I am working with a social network for travellers completely built in ASP.NET MVC 3 - tbh learning this way of programming I will probably never go back to using ASP.NET.
It's a bit of a complicated start - i suggest you start off with NerdDinner (http://www.nerddinner.com/), its tutorial is very detailed explains the basics that you'll need to know - basic authentication, data access,
models, views, controllers.
I have a community of 20-25 groups. I would like these groups to be able to communicate in like a fourm and share photos and even tell their stories in a blog type thing.
Using Silverlight may not be a good idea as it requires users to have the Silverlight plugin installed. Unless your think your target audience will surely have Silverlight installed, consider using HTML5 features for handling the multimedia stuff within
your social networking website.
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Need help choosing the Technology to use for Social Networking
Jun 14, 2011 06:37 AM|LINK
I am planning to start a new social networking website. What should i use for development? Should i use ASP.Net with some silverlight or should i go for a full silverlight app and use MEF?
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Re: Need help choosing the Technology to use for Social Networking
Jun 14, 2011 07:12 AM|LINK
Go ASP.NET MVC3, tis awesome!
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Re: Need help choosing the Technology to use for Social Networking
Jun 14, 2011 07:14 AM|LINK
I have never worked on ASP.Net MVC. Can you direct me to some link that could be helpful? Will it work for a social networking site?
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Re: Need help choosing the Technology to use for Social Networking
Jun 14, 2011 07:21 AM|LINK
Oh yes, it works perfectly! I am working with a social network for travellers completely built in ASP.NET MVC 3 - tbh learning this way of programming I will probably never go back to using ASP.NET.
It's a bit of a complicated start - i suggest you start off with NerdDinner (http://www.nerddinner.com/), its tutorial is very detailed explains the basics that you'll need to know - basic authentication, data access, models, views, controllers.
http://www.asp.net/mvc - here's some general starter information about MVC but if you have experience with programming then you may as well go straight to the tutorial at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/04/28/free-asp-net-mvc-nerddinner-tutorial-now-in-html.aspx
Hope you'll like it! I absolutely love it :-)
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Re: Need help choosing the Technology to use for Social Networking
Jun 14, 2011 07:28 AM|LINK
Thanks. I will go through the links.
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Re: Need help choosing the Technology to use for Social Networking
Jun 14, 2011 07:30 AM|LINK
If you need any help - explanations and such - feel free to ask :)
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Jul 22, 2011 02:25 PM|LINK
I have a community of 20-25 groups. I would like these groups to be able to communicate in like a fourm and share photos and even tell their stories in a blog type thing.
Any Ideas for a website kit?
Thank you.
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Re: Need help choosing the Technology to use for Social Networking
Jul 23, 2011 03:15 PM|LINK
Using Silverlight may not be a good idea as it requires users to have the Silverlight plugin installed. Unless your think your target audience will surely have Silverlight installed, consider using HTML5 features for handling the multimedia stuff within your social networking website.
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