Free ASP.NET / SQL 2005 based Portal / Forum software ?

Is there anything like that ? Or at least for a decent price ?

I mean sure I could try something myself .. but for now I'd like to use something which exists and works

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Devin McCloud

I think you should check out Asp.net and all the starter kits they have. As far as free, community server or dotnetnuke are the best portals. It really depends on what you want to do. Their are a ton of free kits to choose from. If your looking for something a little less bloat and strictly forums...YetAnotherForum is pretty good!

jibbajabba

Basically I am starting to work with SQL and I just want to have something which works out of the box which I can break and fix

astorrs

Not sure if this is for commercial use or not, but http://communityserver.com/products/express/ is great.

Devin McCloud

YetAnotherForum...is what you want. Once you learn to properly configer SQL strings it a piece of cake to setup. It has some decent skins as well and it's free.

Not sure if this is for commercial use or not, but http://communityserver.com/products/express/ is great.

Express is free PRO is like several thousands of dollars!

astorrs

Devin McCloud wrote:

Express is free PRO is like several thousands of dollars!

Yeah, like I said, I wasn't sure if he was planning on using if for commercial use or not.

I agree YAF would be a good starter.

jibbajabba

I don't want to use it commercially at all .. it is really just to learn SQL stuff ..

I mean demo databases from books are nice and all .. but with a portal you see at least straight away when you broke or fixed something ..

Thanks for the infos guys - YAF looks even quite nice .. even though it is free :P

jibbajabba

Cool .. 5 second install ..

Cheers again guys, YAF is pretty much what I was looking for..

Plouplou

Have your guys ever tried Invision Power Board? Have more features, much more organised/advanced options avalaible in Admin ControlPanel, faster and have nicer smileys

Demo: free forum hosting

jibbajabba

Plouplou wrote:

Have your guys ever tried Invision Power Board? Have more features, much more organised/advanced options avalaible in Admin ControlPanel, faster and have nicer smileys

Demo: free forum hosting

I was considering it, but as far as I remember they are charging additional money for their MSSQL "driver" ....

hypnotoad

Dot net Nuke is a free (open source) portal for Windows platforms that is widely used and has a strong community base. I have seen it used several times in large production sites.