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

jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
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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 McCloudDevin McCloud Member Posts: 133
    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!
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    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 :)
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    astorrsastorrs Member Posts: 3,139 ■■■■■■□□□□
    Not sure if this is for commercial use or not, but http://communityserver.com/products/express/ is great.
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    Devin McCloudDevin McCloud Member Posts: 133
    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!
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    astorrsastorrs Member Posts: 3,139 ■■■■■■□□□□
    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.
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    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
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Cool .. 5 second install ..

    Cheers again guys, YAF is pretty much what I was looking for..
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    PlouplouPlouplou Member Posts: 1 ■□□□□□□□□□
    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
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    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" ....
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    hypnotoadhypnotoad Banned Posts: 915
    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.
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