Free as in Beer - TheBeerHouse CMS/E-Com Starter Kit

TheBeerHouse: CMS & E-commerce Starter Kit

"TheBeerHouse starter kit enables you to implement a website with functionality typically associated with a CMS/e-commerce site. This website demonstrates key features of ASP.NET 2.0 and is the sample used in the book, "ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming / Problem - Design - Solution."

Overview

• Layout with user-selectable Themes
• Homepage personalization with WebParts
• News and events, organized into categories
• Opinion polls with support for multiple active and archived polls
• Mailing lists with real-time AJAX-based feedback
• Forums with support for multiple categories, custom pagination, avatars and more
• E-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing
• Localization

ASP.NET features used

• Master pages
• Themes
• Personalization
• Membership & Profile modules
• WebParts
• Data-bound controls such as GridView, DetailsView, and FormView
• Caching with database dependency "

I just wanted to make the "Free as in Beer" joke... ;)

Still, sometimes instead of a bit you need a byte, and that's were the Starter Kit's come in (and why I like them). They provide a working solution, with all the source code, and can provide a nice kick start if you're building a like solution (or just want to see how someone else built one).

For more information, check out the project on CodePlex (where you can download the C# or VB.net versions)

(via Richard Dudley - New Starter Kit Available - TheBeerHouse: CMS & E-commerce Starter Kit)