Employee Info Starter Kit is a ASP.NET based web application, which includes very simple user requirements, where we can create, read, update and delete (crud) the employee info of a company. Based on just a database table, it explores and solves most of the major problems in web development architectural space.
This open source starter kit extensively uses major features available in latest Visual Studio, ASP.NET and Sql Server to make robust, scalable, secured and maintanable web applications quickly and easily.
Since it's first release, this starter kit achieved a huge popularity in web developer community and includes 1,40,000+ download from project web site.
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 came up with lots of exciting features to make software developers life easier. A new version (v4.0.0) of Employee Info Starter Kit is now available in both MSDN Code Gallery and CodePlex. Chckout the latest version of this starter kit to enjoy cool features available in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0.
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Architectural Overview
Simple 2 layer architecture (user interface and data access layer) with 1 optional cache layer
ASP.NET Web Form based user interface
Custom Entity Data Container implemented (with primitive C# types for data fields)
Active Record Design Pattern based Data Access Layer, implemented in C# and Entity Framework 4.0
Sql Server Stored Procedure to perform actual CRUD operation
Standard infrastructure (architecture, helper utility) for automated integration (bottom up manner) and unit testing
Technology UtilizedProgramming Languages/Scripts
Browser side: JavaScript
Web server side: C# 4.0
Database server side: T-SQL
.NET Framework Components
.NET 4.0 Entity Framework
.NET 4.0 Optional/Named Parameters
.NET 4.0 Tuple
.NET 3.0+ Extension Method
.NET 3.0+ Lambda Expressions
.NET 3.0+ Aanonymous Type
.NET 3.0+ Query Expressions
.NET 3.0+ Automatically Implemented Properties
.NET 3.0+ LINQ
.NET 2.0 + Partial Classes
.NET 2.0 + Generic Type
.NET 2.0 + Nullable Type
ASP.NET 3.5+ List View (TBD)
ASP.NET 3.5+ Data Pager (TBD)
ASP.NET 2.0+ Grid View
ASP.NET 2.0+ Form View
ASP.NET 2.0+ Skin
ASP.NET 2.0+ Theme
ASP.NET 2.0+ Master Page
ASP.NET 2.0+ Object Data Source
ASP.NET 1.0+ Role Based Security
Visual Studio Features
Visual Studio 2010 CodedUI Test
Visual Studio 2010 Layer Diagram
Visual Studio 2010 Sequence Diagram
Visual Studio 2010 Directed Graph
Visual Studio 2005+ Database Unit Test
Visual Studio 2005+ Unit Test
Visual Studio 2005+ Web Test
Visual Studio 2005+ Load Test
Sql Server Features
Sql Server 2005 Stored Procedure
Sql Server 2005 Xml type
Sql Server 2005 Paging support
