What is a Starter Kit?

If you have read the introduction post to Paddy O's corner there is a good chance you are asking yourself:  "What is a starter kit anyway?"  

A starter kit a simple Visual Studio.NET 2005 application with sample code that ideally is bundled together with documentation in order to help a user understand and expand his/her knowledge about a particular topic/module/program.  

For example, we at Medichase have both a "Shipping Gateway" Starter Kit and a "Payment Gateway" starter kit.  The goal of these two Starter Kits are to get the user familiar with what it takes to build their own custom Shipping or Payment Gateway.   Provided for the user is documentation to help him/her understand the concept and code, as well as the code itself.  

Another concern of starter kits is speed.  A good starter kit should give the user a good understanding of the topic and get them on their feet in a fairly short amount of time.   Also, the code in a starter kit can be used as a "base" for the user to expand upon.

For more on starter kits w/ information on how to create your own please go here:

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/30007/0/page/1

And once again, you can download our starter kits at:

Payment Gateway:  http://www.mediachase.com/documentation/ecfv4doc/eCFPaymentGateway.zip

Shipping Gateway:  http://www.mediachase.com/documentation/ecfv4doc/eCFShippingGateway.zip