17
votes
10answers
1k views

Best Practices and Etiquette for Setting up Email Notifications

If you were going to set up a Email Alerts for the customers of your website to subscribe to, what rules of etiquette ought to be followed? I can think of a few off the top of my head: Users can ...
11
votes
3answers
2k views

Is it a good practice set connection strings in a web config?

Recently I have a discussion with some of my colleagues at my work because they said that it's better have in a .DLL a string connection encrypted. And I said why just don't use the string connection ...
11
votes
6answers
16k views

How should data be passed between client-side Javascript and C# code behind an ASP.NET app?

I'm looking for the most efficient / standard way of passing data between client-side Javascript code and C# code behind an ASP.NET application. I've been using the following methods to achieve this ...
9
votes
2answers
586 views

Should we compile our website to a single dll, or a dll per page?

We're developing a new project that is to be deployed on a large number of client sites. The project contains a web-based GUI as one of it's "access points". Speed of the web interface is a priority ...
8
votes
4answers
842 views

Should I be a professional in C# programming in order to build good web applications using ASP.NET?

I do not know if there is special programming in C# for the web or it is the same?. If it is the same then what are the topics that I should focus on in C# in order to use it building web application ...
7
votes
4answers
249 views

Can you overuse delegates and events

I've just started getting to grips with event driven programming and I'm finding delegates and events to be very useful. Since starting to see the potential I've began using them all the time to solve ...
6
votes
2answers
360 views

Implementing Asynchronous Insert / Update for a web application

I am in the process of implementing a small web application using memcached for caching objects and sql server for database persistence. In all the projects I have done before I have done ...
4
votes
8answers
948 views

How can I move a team from C# ASP.NET development to PHP development using Drupal?

I have a team of skilled C# developers with vast experience in creating ASP.NET MVC applications. We will soon be starting a new big web site project based on the Drupal platform. My developers do not ...
4
votes
2answers
438 views

Freelance Web Developer tools

I'm thinking of freelancing and building web sites in my free time. I have experience in C#/ASP.NET, JavaScript/jQuery as well as HTML/CSS and SQL. Thus, I feel like I have sufficient web ...
3
votes
1answer
175 views

Designing models for a generic service layer

We are building a web interface to a tiered membership system, which will interface with a third-party CRM web service for the creation and management of accounts. The web service, unfortunately, is ...
3
votes
3answers
148 views

Web Project Class Architecture

I think this is a good question for here but I'm not 100% sure. Please flag if it's too vague. I've worked on many websites where common framework classes are overridden. Since I work mostly in ...
2
votes
6answers
888 views

How much time does it take to learn how to build desktop applications after mostly doing web development in .net? [closed]

I am an ASP.NET / C# web developer. How much time does it take to learn how to build desktop applications using C# in the .net environment?
2
votes
1answer
151 views

Technology Choice for a Client Application

Not sure this is the right place to ask... I'm involved in the development of a new system, and now we are passing the demos stage. We need to build a proper client application. The platform we care ...
2
votes
2answers
215 views

What is the best way to store files when using winforms and web?

I have to develop an application (in C#) that has to work with files. The application consists of two versions: a web version and a windows version. Therefore, the files must be stored on a place ...
2
votes
3answers
245 views

How to update display during large processing job

I have an ASP.NET C# application that needs to go off and iterate through a directory of .xml files and do some processing on the data inside them. This is easy enough, but i need to display the ...

1 2
15 30 50 per page