Mark Newton
Microsoft, like most platform providers quite rightly drop older and less secure technologies. This means that applications you wrote a few years ago may eventually fail unless you do something about it. This is one of the frustrating things about software development. Going back to a client and trying to convince them to pay for […]
The other day I had to move a number of websites from an old Windows 2003 server to a ‘new’ 2012R2 server. This meant that the web service changed from IIS6 to IIS8. The migration went well and before things went live I tested the ASP pages that were written to send emails via CDOSYS, […]
I’m often asked by readers which is the best way to develop asp .net applications, should one use the traditional Web Forms method or the newer MVC (Model View Controller)? The first thing to remember here is that they are not mutually exclusive nor is one going to be better supported in the future by […]
In a previous article I wrote about breaking up with your ISP and the least painful way to achieve such a move. This got me thinking about some of the other changes you might need to make in the near future. Some of these choices will be of your own making but as we shall […]
The other announcement is that the source code of ASP.NET Web API and ASP .NET Web Pages ( Razor ) has been released to Open source, these join ASP .NET MVC which now will ship with jQuery, Modernizer, NuGet, Knockout and JSON libraries from the Open Source family. Not only is the code being released, […]
The very first article I wrote for PcPro way back was a joint piece with Jon Honeyball about Microsoft Index server. This was a service that would run in the background and index all the files in selected folders. This index could then be queried via a web based language; I wrote a commercial web […]
Whilst at the Bridge Championships I get some spare time in between meetings and as I don’t play Bridge so I use the time to try out some new ideas. One such idea came from a client who would like to offer extended services on their website to users who registered with them. Now the […]
I have an announcement… the Internet is broken! Well not quite but I thought it might make you read further! What I am talking about is the frustrating number of broken links out there pointing to sites like knowledge bases. Take the scenario where you are trying to find the answer to a particular problem, […]
Whilst still on the subject of coding, I was building a create user account page for a web site in ASP .NET using the .NET membership services. These services handle a lot of the boring stuff to do with creating user accounts, password retrieval, logging in of users, their roles, and the areas that they […]
Whilst building an ASP .NET web site the other day we had a need to put a PayPal ‘pay now’ button, which is normally simple enough. The web site of the provider ( PayPal in this case ) provides a wizard that creates the HTML code for the button and the associated <FORM> tag that […]