Benefits Of Using Starter Kits For ASP Dot NET Web Development

If you are beginner that is just starting to use ASP dot NET web development then you may want to use one of the starter kits. These starter kits provide you with the basic code that you can then alter to customize your web site or web application. These can be a great tool if you are learning how to use web development with ASP. NET.

Microsoft has developed ASP. NET and has provided five different starter kits that include portal starter kit, time tracker starter kit, reports starter kit, community starter kits and commerce starter kits. You can use these kits time and again to create new web pages and applications. All of the code in the kits can be changed and developed for your individual site.

The development of ASP. NET has made creating sites, pages and applications for the web much easier as it can save a lot of time. Using the starter kits helps you get started even faster as you do not have to create your own code. Much of the problems you will encounter have already been solved in the starter kits.

You can easily gain access of these starter kits by downloading them from the Microsoft website. The available kits provide a community website, sample reports, portal site and time tracking applications. The source code is complete and you can chose what type of data storage you want to use as well as which version of the kit you want, the Basic, C# or J#.

Some of the feature sin the commerce starter kit include a BDB component, shopping car, three tier architecture form, forms authentication and caching. This kit will create a fictitious commerce store and you can then change the code to create your own commerce site. It is a great way to learn ASP. NET development.

The reports kit contains eight different types of applications and the time tracker kit will provide you with time and billing applications.

Author is a developer and trainer with Macresource Computer Training, an independent computer training company offering ASP.NET Classes at their central London training centre.