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.
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.