Mark Newton
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 […]
Going back to our imaginary web site, one job that often needs to be done with a database driven web site is the building of some administration pages for inputting of data via a web page . This can be a tedious job but it is obviously very important to get it right and to […]
Many of the other improvements have been enhancements to the .NET framework which is now at version 4. Obviously there is no room to describe them all here but a few that caught my attention were URL Routing, Permanent Redirect and Autostart. URL Routing enables you to tidy up your URLs to ones that are […]
It’s a busy time at the moment with several major projects on the go as well as amendments to existing sites, that and the inevitable cruises that must be attended in the Mustang during the summer all means that the pressure has been on. One new site that we are building looks like it could […]
Those of you who have to manage web sites are probably aware of the increase in the number of attacks of the type called ‘Cross – Site – Scripting’ ( XSS). So many high profile sites and commercial products have been found to be vulnerable to such attacks. See http://www.xssed.com if you don’t want to […]
Humans being what they are often want to do irresponsible things like take holidays! Often this means that a key person is unavailable to update web pages when this needs to be done. Long gone are the days of companies being able to afford extra staff to cover such occurrences. In these days of lean […]
On the development front I have been working with the .NET2 membership services. By using these you can build the login pages, password reminder screens and all the usual user authentication code for a web site with the dragging of a few objects onto a web form in Visual Studio, this sort of code you […]
All this editing of some older sites led me to try and use the normally excellent Visual Studio 2008 to edit and test some ASP code. This code was not ASP .NET but the pre .NET version. I was shocked to see that all intellisense and code hinting was missing for ASP, turning Visual Studio […]
Whilst browsing the other day I ended up on the excellent site ‘Four Guys from Rolla’ ( http://www.4guysfromrolla.com ). This site has so many good articles on it that if you are working with ASP or ASP.NET it should be obligatory reading for you. The particular article I was interested in covered the problem of […]