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Creating Your Own Web Site Administration Tool in ASP.NET

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One of the challenges faced trying to scale and customise BlogEngine.Net was that the user administration pages were never designed for a large volume of registered users, as evidenced when one uses the administration pages. You’re basically stuck with just the first page listing of 50 or so with no way to access users beyond this number. This is definitely no good for a website carrying tens of thousands of registered users.

The initial idea I had was to try to port the ASP.Net Website configuration tool that Visual Studio has into my project. During research for this though, I found a link that helps you create your own Web Site Administration Tool in ASP.NET and this was quite easy to follow.

Continuing this research, since although easy to do I was not fond of reinventing the wheel especially if there existed a better wheel already, I found an article on ScottGu’s blog on an ASP.Net 2.0 Membership and Role Management Remote Admin Tool which sadly contained links to no longer existing 3rd party articles and seemed to dead-end this research.

Through more active Google searching though, I found what I was looking for, the ASP.Net WSAT (WebSite Administration Toolkit) – Membership Administration project. As icing on the cake, this project has recently released at updated .Net Framework 3.5 version which did far more than what I wanted, and looked quite mature and hence suitable to use.

The issue now was to integrate it properly with BlogEngine.Net’s structure, and this is where Sueetie came in. This movement is aimed at promoting online communities using .Net Open Source software. Their associated Codeplex project contained custom change code and instructions for integrating the WSAT project with BlogEngine.Net (along with several other nice integration solutions, such as a Media Gallery, Wiki and Discussion Forum also powered by .Net Open Source software.

So now it’s just to follow the guides, and hope for the best. There’s still a bit of work to be done, but thankfully nowhere near as much as building this from scratch!

Update 04-02-2009: For some reason the owner of the WSAT codeplex project closed it and removed all the download links. Just when I was about to start working on it!! I’ll attempt to contact the owner and see what this is all about, and whether or not he can re-release the downloads.

Update 05-02-2009: Having had no response from the project owner, and facing an impending deadline, I chose instead to use another, less pretty, ASP.Net Membership Administration solution published written by Dan Clem of 4 Guys from Rolla fame. It has less features than the removed ASP.Net WSAT project solution, but it will do the essentials of user management that were my initial goal.

49 comments

  1. I just don’t get it. Something as important is this is just…left out? How come microsoft can’t provide a tool to manage the flipping website and its users?
    I can’t stand it it makes me want to quite the entire industry.
    thanks for trying though

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      1. I didn’t have the source code. Sadly, the author of the code never responded to my request for a copy of it once it was pulled from Codeplex. So I guess we’re all left a bit in the dark for want of a better website administration tool for asp.net 😦

      1. For all those requesting the ASP.NET WSAT source code in codeplex, please visit the page again and you will get the source code..It’s back up and running..

  5. Hi, Please provide me a copy of source for ASPNetWSAT. It is invaluable and I do appreciate your help. Thanks. Gary

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  6. I would appriciate it a lot if you can share the source code.. please contact me via email if i can get a copy…

    Many, many thanks
    Alex

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  7. Not sure if anyone is still following this post, but I came across this on codeplex, which was just updated 5/4/2010.

    http://mywsat.codeplex.com/

    However, from what it looks like out of the box it wants you to use it’s DB structure, whereas I need something to admin users on an existing vanilla asp.net membership tables.

    Anyone come across anything else simple and fast to setup?

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    1. Phil, MyWSAT is based on the plain vanilla membership tables. To manage remote apps, just point the connection string to your database.

      The added Extra features won’t work but you can manage your user without problem. If you want all the functionality, you can export the couple of extra tables as sql and run it on your database. Then you can easily integrate the whole app with your site.

      I did the same thing for my site and everything works amazingly well. I could not find anything commercial or open source that even comes close to this little app.

      Anywise, thought this might help…

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