ASP.NET full website examples with code

Question

One of the most obnoxious things about developing a website from scratch is dealing with all incidental menuing, layout and all of that.

I am looking for the following: Open source C# ASP.NET website examples of more or less complete but rudimentary websites that include navigation and (hopefully) rudimentary DB access.

I am NOT looking for a full blown CMS like DNN, or Umbraco.

I am looking for a downloadable project that contains navigation, layout, and DB access with either no internal content or easily stripped content.

Note: I am NOT new to ASP.NET. I just am looking for a fast way to get through the initial road humps of a VS project without always starting with only a blank page.

Answer 1

There are a bunch of starter kits available on the asp.net community site: http://www.asp.net/aspnet/samples

There is also http://www.nerddinner.com (source code at http://nerddinner.codeplex.com/) if you're interested in ASP.NET MVC.

EDIT:

If you're just looking for easy to setup login functionality, why not use ASP.NET Membership?

The Menu control is also fairly easy to configure, especially with sitemap files.

Answer 2

In this MSDN tutorial, they actually explain ASP.NET well and also give a link to download the tutorial. I am not sure if it has the DB access..but it is worthwhile to look at it I guess. Here is the tutorial #3. On the top of the page, you can download all the files used in the tutorial