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About the installation of YetAnotherForum

Published by WebGuru on January 25, 2008 in ASP and ASP.net. 1 Comment

YetAnotherForumSome steps to install the free ASP.NET open source forum:

1. First of all, of course you should download this application from http://www.yetanotherforum.net/.
2. Prepare the Microsoft SQL Express database. If you have not installed any on your servers yet, you can download it from Microsoft website for free. When you are on Microsoft Download center, remember you not only need  SQL Server 2005  Express database service, but you also need SQL Server Management Studio Express to create a initial forum admin user.
3. Create a login for your new SQL database, and then a new database Instance. With such information, including Database Name and Logon Account/Password, you can modify the yanet.config first before you start to install the forum.
4. Finally, you can run the installation from the URL of http://yourdomainname/YaNet/install/default.aspx.

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Recommend a free ASP.NET C# open source forum

Published by WebGuru on January 24, 2008 in ASP and ASP.net. 6 Comments

YetAnotherForumCurrently it is very difficult to find a good ASP.NET discussion board program. Since one of my clients is using Windows hosting plan, it is not good to recommend vBulletin or PHPbb to him when he asked my suggestion on setting up a community forum.

To started, I did a little bit of researches on the following 3 asp.net forums.

  1. Jitbit 的 ASPNetForum 4.5.x (free, $85 and $169 versions)
  2. Austrian Active Data Online - Discussion Board 6.x ($200)
  3. England Instant Forum 4.x ($119 or $199)

Only AspNETForum offers the downloads, for the others you will have to go to their web sites for the demonstrations. To be summarized, all of the three above are not too bad, and not too expensive. Especially the AspNetForum can be free if you keep its logo on your forum. And AspNetForum is very clean and simple on the layout too. But “simple” is not always good for the administrators. In AspNetForum, you can not set up different type of boards, and you could not control the configuration from the back-end control panel either. For example, you will have to edit the web.config file to set up bad words filter.

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