Its give me immense pleasure to announcement .NET portal – DOTENET (URL: www.dotenet.com). It’s “Digg” style web application dedicated to .NET and relative technologies. This portal will serve as central hub to share articles, tutorials, blog post etc.
When I was planning to create this portal two months back, I was sure that first release of this project will have minimum “must to have” features and later I will add features which are “good to have”. And that’s why you will notice many blank pages on this portal. These blank pages are place-holder for features which I will add in coming weeks (depending upon available bandwidth).
The desired goal of creating a community portal cannot be achieved without your active participation. Please register yourself to this portal and share any article or post which you think useful to .NET community. If you find any existing link useful in DOTNET portal, please vote for that link so that link can be push to popular segment.
As you continue participating in this portal, please keep in mind that this community portal needs your feedback to remain alive. Please provide your feedback/opinion/suggestion to this post
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Isn’t this what DotNetKicks and SharePointKicks is all about?
What framework did you use to build this?
Thanks JMP and KLG for comment.
Though my primary objective is to create a .NET community portal, there are many other secondary objectives I have for creating this portal.
1. My first secondary objective is to learn and experience end-to-end Web 2.0 product development. This application was opportunity for me to learn all technical and business aspect of Web 2.0 product development.
2. On technical front, I also wanted to utilize code generation approach to develop ASP.NET/SQL Server application. All of the business objects, façade layer, business service, and data providers for this portal are actually generated using .netTiers application framework using CodeSmith tools.
URL: http://www.nettiers.com/
URL: http://codesmithtools.com/
I recommend every ASP.NET developers to use this code generation framework for their ASP.NET application. This will cut your development effort by 80 percent (from my experience).
3. I also wanted to learn creating aesthetic UI for web application. In my all previous project experience, I usually involved in technical aspect and I didn’t able to concentrate on usability and interface design.
4. My another initial objective was to learn XHTML/CSS (I sucks in working with DIV). But later I drop this objective as I wanted to launch this application ASAP. And that’s why; you can see all of the control placements are done using TABLE/TR/TD. It’s not that I don’t know XHTML, but it’s difficult for a person who worked with TABLE/TR/TD kind of control placement for last 8 years. Look like; I have to come up with another Web 2.0 product to learn XHTML/CSS.
Will you be making the source-code available? OR is it available already?
Currently it’s closed source application.
Is there a chance you will be releasing it as open source. If not, I’ll have to go ahead and build something for the .NET 2.0 Framework.
What are your thoughts on releasing it open-source?
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