I have developed a asp.net page and I'm ready to release it for the public. This is my first asp.net page and I would appreciate if I could get some tips of what to do pre-release. So I hope you all can help me put together a checklist before publishing.
Thanks
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Check overall security of your site, be sure you have nothing in Debug state. Also take a look at a recently discovered security issue on .NET
Don't forget logs. They are a key to check how things are going on once the app is released.
Ask some relatives/friends to take a look from their point of view. Test as much as you can, remember that if you have 99% finished, there is another 99% yet to be finished :)
Check your configuration files, and every setting on IIS once released.
Be prepared (if not before) to apply SEO techniques in order to let your work be seen on most search engines.
Test your site from many browsers (even the special ones as IE6 and Safari)
Take a look at this link. here in StackOverflow.
Now, just cross your fingers and go on!
Hope that helps,
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I'm really keen to use the 2sxc environment on my website for a number of applications.
I'm currently looking at the Mobius forms.
What I'm wanting to do is create a ticket in ConnectWise rather than send an email, using the ConnectWise REST API.
Some of these questions might have obvious answers to someone who has been taught in these technologies, but I'm self-taught. When I went to school I learnt COBOL!
There is c# code in the application, but I can't see how you build and incorporate into the application. I forked the code and it seems to just code with no build.
There are live and staging folders with the same cshtml files. However, it seems a bit random when the live or staging is actually used. For example, I did a quick fix to the _Contact Form.cshtml so to fix the type that meant it always displayed the ReCaptcha warning, and I changed the live version, which didn't do anything, so I had to change the staging version.
I need to update the settings so that configure the ConnectWise API settings, I haven't been able to find where I can do this? I am still looking though.
I also need to store a private key in the settings. Is there a secure way I can do this?
PS. When I get my head around all this I'm happy to be a contributor
welcome to StackOverflow.
I'll try to give you some guidance to help you figure it out
Live and staging are folders meant to let you make changes while the users see the unmodified output. So a host-user sees the files from staging, others see what's in live. When you're done and all is tested, you copy from staging to live. This we call Polymorphism.
Polymorphism applies to both the cshtml as well as the api. So as a host-user, you'll be using staging/api/FormController to save/send.
There is no build process, everything is hot-compiled. That's one of the things that makes 2sxc so amazing. No Visual Studio, DLL or restarting the application ;) You'll love it.
Secure keys: there is no special secure key storage. We usually put it in the App-Settings, just like the MailChimp key you'll see there. We split it into two fields for very technical reasons, because we publish our code on github and that causes trouble when our code has API keys. But you can just use one field, assuming you don't plan on publishing the code on github.
I am new and I am not sure if this is a place to ask this question.
I developed a web site alone using wordpress framework.
Now, I got a guy who I don't know much to join me to develop the site. We live in different countries and we decide to use Bitbucket for code management.
I do not have any experiences in team working, Bitbucket.
My concerns are:
1. Do I need to upload both source code and database to Bitbucket?
Do you think he will just take all the source code and database and make his own website and become my competitor?
What should I be careful when working in a team? I mean sharing code.
I know maybe I am quite small-minded. I am worried about security problems.
But definitely, I need to have someone to work with me to develop the site.
Please advice and write any sources that are useful for this problem.
Thank you.
I'm not an expert in Wordpress, but the concept still applies:
Source code: yes. Database: no, only the database schema/ SQL scripts to recreate it.
Depends on his ethics. You should reach an agreement with him that guarantees that he won't do so, by writing a contract for example.
Take the following into consideration: coding standards, conventions are followed in naming variables, pages, urls, etc, repository privacy is set correctly, repository privileges are distributed to enable the contributors to do only what they're supposed to do.
I'll leave the rest to you and other fellows on this website to figure out depending on your experience :)
My website has a lot of menus and submenus in its index page and these submenus are loaded from the db.Ajax is used to load the submenus. So its taking a lot of time to load the full page. How will i reduce the loading time.I am using asp.net mvc3 and sql server 2008 database
It's very hard to tell what could be the bottleneck in your solution without actually seeing it, but it sounds that you can benefit greatly by doing caching, in ASP.NET MVC it's quite easy to do, here is another great tutorial on the subject. Oh and remember -> “There are 2 hard problems in computer science: caching, naming, and off-by-1 errors” ;)
There are many things that could be going wrong and causing your application to run slowly.
I’d recommend you turn the trace feature on because that will tell you what may be wrong. As Dimitar Dimitrov already mentioned you can try to cache the query in some way so you don’t have to retrieve it every time.
Another option would be to optimize the query so that it fetches all menus and submenus in one query.
But again, don’t do anything specifically until you’ve profiled your application to see where specifically is the issue.
I have a bit of an issue here. Actually, it might not be an issue, I just don't really know how to handle it.
I need to copy an image, from a remote server, to my local server, every n seconds, IF (any) users are on my webpage.
If no users are on, it doesn't matter. If multiple users are on, it should only run the copy once (every n seconds).
I think I have heard somewhere, that you can do background tasks, on your ASP.NET website, but I have absolutely no knowledge of this. Some people also talk about threads, is it perhaps the same solution?
So, I'm hoping for some experienced people, to guide me towards a solution here. What possibilities do I have, which would you recommend and perhaps some articles where I can read how to do it.
Given your answer in the comments I would suggest you need to use a cache that supports time-based expiry.
See http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/51409/Exploring-Caching-Using-Caching-Application-Enterp#heading0020 for a good article on using Enterprise Library caching block.
Hi I am currently designing a website for a client - the site will be written in asp.net with a cms built in. My client has come back saying he wants to play mp4s on the site - plus being able to embed some other videos from youtube, vimeo etc.... in his blog - I have managed to convice my client that playing .flv would be better for obvious reasons (which he has agreed is OK). but when I went back to my coder, he said that because of the fact its a dynamic site that it will take 2 days to get this working (in terms of creating the mechanics to allow my client to up load his movies etc.....)
Is this correct - as my client is under the impression that it should be a simple thing to do - while my coder tells me that its not that simple.
I am in the middle of all of this - can you help please!!!!
At the end of the day only the coder you are using knows exactly how much effort is required here. You have to trust them. This almost certainly not trivial. Make sure you and the coder understand exactly what's being asked for here and that neither of you are assuming anything about how the client expects it to work.
Is your client a programmer? Non-programmers should never dictate how long a programming task should take.
If you're cowboy coding without testing "today" would probably suffice, but any sane and professional development shop would never let this happen.
Now let's clarify what your client really told you to do:
Your dev seems to be assuming that he has to support adding/uploading videos from your CMS.
If your dev is going to use a 3rd party API like YouTube, 2 sounds reasonable. If you're going to serve it on your own site, it'd take at least a week's worth of programming to make sure your site can take such a heavy load of streaming data -- it's stupid, not to mention highly irresponsible, to assume it could be worked out in a day.
Now, if you're client is only really talking about embedding videos in blog entries or articles, that's a very trivial task: YouTube, Vimeo and other video sharing sites already supply the HTML embed code that's needed to display a video on a page. In fact that's a zero effort task assuming that your blog entry editor properly parses the embed code, or has an Edit HTML feature.
So, which one is which?
This might be a good occasion to use the <video> tags. It might simplify things at the cost of only supporting users with recent browsers.
Two days is a quite optimistic estimate for all that you've mentioned. Maybe for embedding YouTube videos only, but for upload/storage/streaming of videos on the local server it's a different thing entirely.
But if you don't understand programming yourself, then you have to trust the expert that you've hired to do the job for you, and you have to tell the client that is how long it will take. The fact is that these things aren't trivial to write, there's the front end website management interface that needs creating, and the back end server software that manages what to do with the uploaded file. Never mind integration and making sure it's easy for the client to run a workflow of upload file, incorporate that video inside some content in the CMS, and so on.
I just recently did this, you need to get videoLan http://www.videolan.org/
This streams mostly anything, after you set up a streaming site it's easy!