Any good Open Source or Cheap ASP.NET Catalog Applications
- by Zhaph - Ben Duguid
We're looking for a cheap-to-free "off the shelf" ASP.NET catalogue application, that will meet the following requirements:
Support two kinds of listings:
Suppliers of Services
Suppliers of Products, and their Products
Suppliers can be categorised by:
Area of specialisation - including sub-categories
Location
Other data, e.g. where listing came from
Versioning of supplier/product details
Easy to use management interface
Use masterpages so we can drop it into our existing site layout
Run on a Windows 2003 server, with .NET 3.5 installed
In an ideal world, the following additional requirements might be met:
Suppliers can manage their own listings
Other products that are available to us (that will obviously need some additional development to meet these requirements) are:
Content Management System (MS)
Commerce Server - bear in mind we're not selling the products/suppliers, just listing them
Simple DB application.
I'm happy to knock something up in MCMS/simple DB, I'm just looking to see if anyone's had any experience with off the shelf apps that could save us some time.
I'm also happy to receive "Don't use this because" type answers.
Thanks.