6 Comments | Tue Feb 2 2010
Disclaimer: While Jumptree Project is compatible with Microsoft Web Platform Installer, it’s not officially supported.
In 2009, Microsoft released their Web Platform Installer.
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy. The Web PI also makes it easy to install and run the most popular free web applications for blogging, content management and more with the built-in Windows Web Application Gallery.
By bundling all these components together, e.g. runtime, database, etc., it allows users to easily install and customize all the software they need to develop on a Windows machine.
Now Microsoft already has an excellent guide on how to package an application for the Windows Application Gallery.
This guide should provide you with the necessary outline to make your application compatible with the Microsoft Platform Installer.
Read the rest of this entry »
2 Comments | Sat Mar 15 2008
I don’t know if I’m just the minority among the ASP.NET developers, but for years, I’ve never had to deal with the Active Directory simply because most projects that I’ve done before were in hosting environments where Active Directory is a luxury to have.
Things are different these days when it comes to support a product like Jumptree Project. Lately, we’ve had quite a few inquires from companies and government agencies where Active Directory authentication is the norm, and such it’s essential for them to link the users in their system with Jumptree together.
So how does a developer—who is not a network admin guru—setup such an environment to develop against Active Directory?
The Hardware
- Machine A Windows 2000 Server — We will setup Active Directory here
- Machine B Windows XP Pro — This will be our client machine where ASP.NET 2.0 will be used to authenticate against the Active Directory
- Router — Connects Machine A and Machine B together.
Read the rest of this entry »
15 Comments | Tue Sep 18 2007
Sasha Sydoruk asks, “Where are all the cool startups that run on ASP.NET?”
Well I’m not sure if we’re considered cool enough, but we choose ASP.NET over Java for a variety of reasons.
ASP.NET is easier to setup and deploy
Since Jumptree Project is download software, we needed to ensure that we could readily support our customer’s installation and deployment process.
Have you ever run into problems deploying a Java application and then having to spend hours going through your configuration files and resolving library conflicts? Fun!
Java may be multi-platform, but there are numerous middleware implementations of J2EE—each with its own quirks. So instead of spending time improving your application, you end up having to answer support calls on why your Tomcat application doesn’t work on IBM Websphere.
With .NET, the environment is pretty much standard—so it’s a lot easier for us to provide support.
Read the rest of this entry »
