Introduction
Singularity is an ASP.NET Application Development Framework which makes it easier for .NET developers to create ASP.NET websites. For example, using this framework, one can easily develop text and video blogging websites, social networking websites and CMS systems.
You could download latest version from Singularity Home Page.
Background
Singularity is based on the notion of 'Write Less Do More'. It is better than Entity Framework, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC V2 in terms of maintainability, addressing agility of today’s website and total cost of ownership. Following are the reasons why?
Points of Interest
1. Singularity provides a model of "writing no or minimal code" through Service, Category and Attribute concept.
2. You could define new Services, Categories and Attributes on the fly
with all those required, range validation and regular expression
validations. No coding required!
3. Services, Categories and Attributes are rendered as Input Forms, Search Forms and Advanced Search Forms. No coding required!
4. You could change from TextBox to RichTextBox to TextArea on the fly.
Similarly you could change from DropDownList to RadioList on the fly.
No coding required!
5. 'Singularity' wraps 50+ ASP.NET server control including AJAX
control toolkit. You could register your own ASP.NET controls with
framework to extend it. You could set control’s properties using a
Key-Value XML.
6. Singularity Foundation Library (SFL) is a collection of utility
classes that one can use to build ASP.NET apps in shortest amount of
time. For example, if you wish to build your own Data Access Layer,
Singularity Foundation Library (SFL) provides an excellent starting
point. It has a Save() wrapper around MSDAB that do all the magic of
insert, update, delete with or without transaction.
Using the code
Please follow instructions below to install. You could download latest version from
Singularity Home Page.
1. Click Download button above to obtain Singularity Community Edition ZIP.
2. Unzip and restore SQL Server 2005 database from backup available under folder \App.Web\App_Data\Singularity.bak
3. Create a SQL Server 2005 user.
* User name = sig and
* Password = sig.
4. Create an IIS virtual directory named sig at folder App.Web. Make
sure ASP.NET 2.0 is selected in IIS virtual directory settings.
5. Open browser, enter URL http://localhost/sig and hit ENTER to view Singularity Home Page.
6. Click Sign In link at the top of the home page. To Sign In as
Admin, enter Email = admin@mysitename.com and Password = admin.
Troubleshooting
1. If you get SQL Server priviliages error for ASPNET user, please run following SQL script on Singularity database:
* exec sp_grantlogin 'MachineName\ASPNET'
* use database_name
* exec sp_grantdbaccess 'MachineName\ASPNET'
* exec sp_addrolemember 'db_owner', 'MachineName\ASPNET'
History
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