Question

I have a website for which I need to implement the admin interface. The functionality is pretty generic and should include CRUD operations to DB tables and charts etc.

I know I can whip up something pretty quickly using the GridView control but was wondering if there’s something open source that supports this functionality so that I don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

Answer 1

Have you looked into ASP.NET Dynamic Data (my bold):

ASP.NET Dynamic Data brings major
usability and RAD development changes
to the existing ASP.NET data controls.
RAD development is significantly
increased by the use of a rich
scaffolding framework. After you add a
LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework data
model to a project, you can simply
register it with Dynamic Data. The
result is a fully functional Web site.
Full CRUD (create, read, update, and
delete) operations are supported.

This would at least get the “CRUD” data-manipulation part of the site out of the way for you with minimal effort. There’s also an ASP.NET Charting control that you could take a look at, which Scott Guthrie gave an overview of, I have to say I haven’t yet used it but it does look pretty good.