Stardeveloper ASP.NET Newsletter Application

Welcome to the official home page of Stardeveloper ASP.NET Newsletter (v1.1.3). It is a full fledged newsletter application that you can use to send text and HTML newsletters to your website users.

Latest version is v1.1.3 which was released on 2/28/2010.

Features

* A subscription form allows users to subscribe to your newsletter. The email's syntax is first checked with a regexp and then validated by sending a validation email to the user.
* The admin page gives you quick overview of number of subscribers and the newsletters that you have created and sent.
* The admin page allows you to create and update emails/newsletters.
* The admin page allows you to create "jobs" to send newsletters in the background using thread queues.
* Once you start a job (i.e., send a newsletter), you can close your browser. The background threads on the server will continue to send emails, one by one, to all the subscribers of your newsletter.
* Supports sending emails in both plain text and HTML.
* This ASP.NET Newsletter is provided with complete source code (in C#).

Learn more about features.

Download

Please support development of opensource software at Stardeveloper.

Visit Stardeveloper Store and download Stardeveloper ASP.NET Newsletter Application for a small price of $10.00 for a single website license.

You will also get 50% discount for the next version of this application if you buy v1.1.3 now. Learn more about new features that have been planned for the next version.

How to install?

Follow these steps to download and install Stardeveloper ASP.NET Newsletter (v1.1.3) on your web server:

i. Go to Stardeveloper Store and enter your contact details and payment information. Then click the 'Next' button to complete the purchase and to download Stardeveloper ASP.NET Newsletter application.
ii. Unzip the file that you receive into a folder on your local system.
iii. Go to the unzipped folder on your local system and find a file 'CreateNewsletterSProcsAndTables.sql' in the /App_Code sub-folder.
iv. Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to your SQL Server database where you want to install the tables and stored procedures for this application.
v. After you have successfully connected and logged-in, open CreateNewsletterSProcsAndTables.sql in SQL Server Management Studio. Click the F5 button to run the T-SQL code in this file to create all the necessary tables and stored procedures in your database.
vi. Now using FTP, create a folder with the name of, for instance, /newsletter on your web server.
vii. Again using FTP, upload the contents of the 'Newsletter' folder in unzipped file to that folder on your web server.
viii. Now upload the contents of 'App_Code' folder in the unzipped file to the / (root) folder on your website so that the path to App_Code folder is /App_Code on your website.
ix. Now you should open the URL like http://www.yourwebsite.com/newsletter/admin/manage.aspx in your browser and should see the admin page.
x. You have now successfully downloaded and installed this application on your web server.

Read full installation instructions.

FAQs

Q. What are the requirements to install this application?
A. An ASP.NET 2.0 enabled website with SQL Server 2005/2008 database.

Q. Where can I post a question if I run into problems?
A. Please use the 'contact us' page to get in touch.

Q. Why not make the v1.1.3 available for free download?
A. The code in this application deserves a much higher price than the $10.00 I am asking at the moment. By buying, you are supporting the development of opensource software at Stardeveloper.

Q. If I am a customer of Stardeveloper ASP.NET Newsletter, can I expect an expedited response?
A. Yes, I will try my best to answer your queries ASAP.

Learn more about how to use this application.