E-commerce Starter Kit

E-commerce starter kit is an ASP.NET 2.0 application that represents a typical e-commerce store front. It demonstrates many ASP.NET 2.0 features such as master pages, 3 tier data access using Object Data Source, Data Bound controls, Membership and more...

Features

The features of the starter kit include:

• Categorized product catalog
• Shopping cart
• Order history
• Product search
• Short and long description
• Top products
• Product Reviews
• Membership

ESK is developed using ASP.NET 2.0 and uses following features:

• Completely based on n-tier architecture 
• Generics based data transfer between the layers
• Forms based authentication 
• User management via Membership providers 
• Themes 
• Master pages 
• New data source controls - ObjectDataSource 
• New data bound controls – GridView

System Requirements

• .NET Framework 2.0
• Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer Express edition
• SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

Installation Instructions

• Download the latest version of ESK from the above URL
• Unzip the downloaded ZIP file at your end to extract .VSI file
• Double click on the .VSI file to start a wizard
• The wizard will guide you to further installation
• Select File > New Web Site dialog in VS.NET.
• Locate ESK project template in New Web Site dialog
• Create a new web site using ESK template to begin exploring the kit

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