PhoneBook.Com

This website allows users to maintain their phonebook on the web. It allows registered users to add,remove and update phone entries. It provides a web service to allow other applications to get details about users and their phone entries.

The following are the topics of ASP.NET used in this project.

Asp.Net 4.0
C# Language
SQL Server 2005/2008 Express Edition
Visual Studio.NET 2010
Layered Architecture with Presentation Layer (PL) and Data Access Layer (DAL)
DAL uses LINQ to talk to SQL Server
All database operations are done through LINQ To SQL
ObjectDataSource is used in presentation layer to talk to DAL.
DetailsView, GridView are used to display details
CMailServer is used for mailing
Master page and theme with stylesheet and skin files

The following are the major operations in this application.

User Registration with verification of username uniqueness using Ajax
Login
Password Recovery
Change password
Home Page - Search Phone Entries
List of phone entries of the current user
Add new phone entry
Update phone entry
Delete phone entry
Logout
A Web Service to provide details of users and phone entries of a particular user

Steps to download, deploy and run this project

The following are the steps to be taken to run the existing part of the application.

Download phonebook.rar and unzip it into any directory in your system. For example, if you extract to c:\ then it will create a directory c:\phonebook.
Open Visual Studio.NET 2010
Open the project from the directory into which you extracted project. For example, c:\phonebook
Create a local database named PhoneBook.mdf and create table using the script in tables.sql file
Go to Solution Explorer and make default.aspx the startup page.
Run project from Visual Studio.NET 2010.
You should see login.aspx page.
Create new user using registration page and then login with that user name and password.
Add a few phone entries.
Search for phone entries
Select an entry and modify the details of the entry.
Test the rest of the operations.