Creating Windows Starter Kits for Visual Studio 2005
Microsoft has put renewed energy into its Starter Kits for Visual Studio 2005, but did you know you can create your own Starter Kit and export it to .vsi to share with others? Find out how to build a book search Starter Kit using the Amazon Web service.
by Wei-Meng Lee
November 22, 2005
n the days of ASP.NET 1.x, Microsoft first created ASP.NET Starter Kits to help developers jumpstart Web development. ASP.NET Starter Kits are sample ASP.NET applications that provide code as an extensible template for accomplishing common Web development tasks. Each Starter Kit is complete and well documented so that users can become productive right away.
For example, one Starter Kit that Microsoft created, the Personal Web Site Starter Kit, provides the basic framework on how to build an ASP.NET Web site that contains an online photo gallery, login facility for secure access, as well as a discussion forum. The Starter Kit will contain the base functionality and the developer will customize and enhance it to suit his purpose. This greatly increases the developer's productivity and provides a good way to learn through extending the original application. And in Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has extended the Starter Kits to include Windows applications.
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n the days of ASP.NET 1.x, Microsoft first created 
