paggy4u:

May i request the moderator to look in this matter and give us the final version.

Hi,

moderators don't have anything to say in this. It's the people of Microsoft who build the starter kits and put them online.

BTW, where did you get the message that it would appear at the end of May?

Grz, Kris.

paggy4u:

For example Mr. Shaku Niyogi is busy writing starterkit for Blogs.
More info here ..... www.shankun.com

I'm also awaiting that starter kit to show up but got tired of waiting and installed dasBlog as my blog engine: http://blog.krisvandermast.com/.

Grz, Kris.

Hi,

I have it running in ASP.NET 2.0 but that requires some, documented, changes to the web.config file. you can find more information here: http://www.dasblog.net/. Its open source and free.

Thanks for letting me know about the movie although I probably won't be able to see it. Bollywood movies never seem to get in the theaters in Belgium and it's quite hard to find specialized video centers which offer Bollywood movies.

Grz, Kris.

marcgel:

Hopping for mid July. The excellent feedback from this forum is being used right now to work on the next version.

paggy4u:

I was corresponding with Mr. Jeff King from Microsoft, who owns This Classified Starterkit.

And did you get any comment?

Grz, Kris.

I work with Jeff. We are currently evaluating the feedback.

Marcgel,

Could you consider giving  giving consumers the opportunity to purchase

items through Paypal

Hi Paggy4u,

Sorry to keep you and the others on this forum waiting for the next version of the Classifieds SK.  I know I advertised an earlier date for the final release of this kit and we have not delivered upon that date.  Just to give some insight into how the creation of these Starter Kits work, members of the product team volunteer to create these sample applications in addition to their primary duties of delivering the product (ASP.NET or Visual Studio) itself.  Thus kit schedules are at the whim of our product commitments as was the case with this one.  That said, I best refrain from making a commitment to a release date because our schedule is rolling. =)

The final release of the Classifieds SK won't get any additional features, however it will benefit from a variety of bug fixes (around 16 or so).  We review every kit with developers on the ASP.NET team.  Marc has been busy addressing the issues caught by these reiviews as well as bugs found by contributors on this forum.  We've corrected some fairly meaty issues.  Trading additional features for quality is the way to go and I hope you all will agree with me.

I think the spirit of the kits not emphasized enough: the ability for everyone to contribute to the effort.  The license, open source code, and community forums is designed to allow anyone to add features and contribute their work to everyone else.  I think all this interest in the classifieds is great and I encourage everyone to add the features that you want that we at Microsoft may not have time to do.

I hope this helps and thanks for the support!

-Jeff

Hi,

Jeff.aspx:

Trading additional features for quality is the way to go and I hope you all will agree with me.

I for one agree to that statement. I like to point out to the starter kits when a beginning ASP.NET developers asks certain questions. For example I know theming is in the PWS kit so I point out to that kit if someone asks how to use theming.

So I hope that the kits also be reviewed to best practices by the Patterns & Practices team as these kits are also used to learn how to program. And nothing is as worse, well ok there are worse things, as studying from an example that doesn't apply best practices causing a novice to learn bad behaviors from the beginning.

Grz, Kris.

pedewede:

Jeff...I am sorry I can't give you specifics but in all honesty I have some huge projects waiting on this starter kit. The Final version will benefit MS in a big way. It will make you and your team look like stars......the sooner the better...just a FYI.