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Datapod-for-C#  by Edward Tanguay Datapod is a tool that I developed to help me create content-management websites.

Design: Morning Sun

JULY 2007: THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN UPDATED HERE: Setup a PHP Development Environment on Windows XP With Apache, PHP 5, MySQL 5, SQLite, Eclipse, Subversion, PHPMyAdmin, and Datapod

This tutorial is hosted at A2Hosting. They constantly install the newest PHP5, have SQLite and XSLT, Python, Ruby on Rails, and excellent support. Use them if you need a site.

What are the advantages of Datapod? Datapod is free for personal and commercial use. Datapod is open-source: you get all the code. Runs on any web server that supports ASP.NET. Allows you to set up database-backed websites within minutes. Allows you to assign teams various levels of access to edit/view data. Works well as an Intranet or Internet solution. It's self-contained, runs in a directory. It's easy to backup: code and database are all in one zip file. You can run as many Datapods on one web server as you want. There's no database setup (uses local .mdb file). You can easily change the layout, color, and fonts with skins. Teaches you object-oriented programming. Teaches system-independent programming (see Datapod-for-PHP5). It's browser independent: tested on Firefox and Internet Explorer. It's less than 500 K, easy to transport, send via e-mail, etc. post question or comment your name What do you need? Windows 2000 or XP Professional with IIS installed. .NET Framework installed (download .NET for free) To run a Datapod online, you need an ASP.NET Web Hosting account. post question or comment your name Free workshop: Take my online workshop to learn how to create a content management site with Datapod in 30 minutes. post question or comment your name

Click the graphic to take the tour: post question or comment your name Download: This code is free software. It may be downloaded, used, copied, modified and distributed for personal, educational and commercial purposes. This code is distributed in the hope that it is useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Latest Version Oct 14, 2004 Datapod for C# Version 0.380: dpcsh-0380.zip This version has the basic features in place to create fast content-management sites. You can learn how to use this version of Datapod with this workshop. post question or comment your name

C# books to help you learn Datapod:

		Note that books on ASP.NET and ASP.NET Components or Visual Studio .NET won't help you to learn Datapod since Datapod does not use the popular features of ASP.NET such as DataGrid, Repeater, etc. nor do you want to use Visual Studio .NET (use the free JEdit instead). The reason for this is so that programming a site with Datapod in C# is similar to programming a site with Datapod for PHP5 or JSP. You aren't dependent on framework features from any one company. When you program with Datapod you learn system-independent skills.
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