Coding4Fun is the home for fun and cool hobbyist projects using the Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition products.

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The Personal Web Site Starter Kit provides a complete, ready-to-run, ready-to-customize, interactive Web site for sharing photos, posting your résumé, categorizing links, and more. Post your photos to your personal online photo gallery, group photos into albums, and even show a random photo-of-the-day on the front page. Starter Kits are fully-documented to help you quickly understand the layout of the application and discover how to start making customizations and extensions to your Web site.

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The Club Site Starter Kit provides everything you need to easily build a dynamic Web site for your club or organization including contacts, events calendar, photo sharing and more. You can create announcements and news articles to highlight club activities. The calendar makes it easy to create and share event information, and even integrates with Outlook or other calendar applications. Starter Kits are fully-documented to help you quickly understand the layout of the application and discover how to start making customizations and extensions to your Web site.

On Coding4Fun, you can learn about cool Web projects like how to create a Web application that displays your Windows Media Player music collection including album, artist, and song information and even play music from your Web server.

You can also learn how to use the iTunes Player library to create a Web-based display of your music library.

You can even learn how to programmatically add streaming audio and video using Windows Server 2003’s built-in Windows Media Services and the Windows Media Services SDK.