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When Microsoft decided to get involved in the Internet in the late 90's after years of ignoring the potential they found themselves doing a bit of a catch up. First with their browser (Internet Explorer), then IIS (Internet Information Services), then ASP and finally the .NET framework. |
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There is little doubt that Microsoft spent some time examining other vendors in the market, especially ColdFusion, when they dreamed up the .NET framework. It now comes bundled with IIS Server which certainly makes hosting affordable. It also conveniently uses a great number of the classes created for the Microsoft Class Libraries. This means that the countless number of Visual Studio programmers can migrate over to ASP.NET projects with very little retraining. A smart move for Microsoft. |
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As a bastion of ColdFusion developers, used to Rapid Application Development (RAD) web applications, we were reluctant to develop in ASP.NET. However, our curiousity and a request from a customer brought us a little closer than looking at it from the outside in. We discovered that the time required to develop a simple website in ASP.NET was still 4 to 6 times longer than a similar development with ColdFusion. Slightly quicker than it used to be with ASP but still too long to be considered RAD. Also, the Microsoft Just-In-Time (JIT) ASP.NET compiler still suffers from speed issues and bugs. While we made our client happy and have done other ASP.NET projects since we try to recommend ColdFusion and FuseBox over ASP.NET for reliability, greater speed and lower cost of development and flexibility in design. |
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Examples of our ASP.NET work include: |
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| Claudia Norris : 2006 |
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With ClaudiaNorris.com we expanded our knowledge of ASP.NET and developed the site in version 2.0. We incorporated master templates into the site structure to allow for design changes to the look and feel of the site with minimal overhead reducing our time to convert from storyboard to final website. |
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| Incarter International : 2005 |
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Incarter approached us having a non-interactive initial web presence with a small budget for improvements. We redesigned the site, provided the stock photos from our own archive and built the interactive part of the website in ASP.NET. The result is a interactive website site which has seen traffic improve dramatically due to our attention being focused on Search Engine Optimisation and effective design techniques. |
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