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ASP.NET Application Hosting
Yesterday, I was successful in hosting my sample ASP.NET web application over the free ASP.NET web hosting facility available at http://europe.webmatrixhosting.net/
The best part was the usage of the System.Web.Mail namespace’s MailMessage Type.
Pretty cool stuff I thought.
Just set the properties of the email message to be sent; choose the smtp server and lo, message is sent.
since my company’s smtp server was temporarily not receiving mails, learnt about Relay server and other SMTP related stuff. (Thanks to my SysAdmin, Mr. Sudeesh)
Currently using hotmail’s smtp server.
The smtp server was OK today and hence i can now use the Web.config to store the smtp server address.
All it took to put up two pages of functional ASP.NET site was 2 hours.
My sample application stands at http://ideamani.europe.webmatrixhosting.net/
GTG Treking….
Back on Monday!
Using CVS for SourceControl
“An alternative to VSS” was the requirement. Decided to plunge into CVS. SA had the CVS server installed on a Linux machine. My task was to find and explore the various CVS clients for Windows.
First, tried WinCVS. Then went on to look for CVS plugins for VS.NET. Found Jalindi Igloo. Igloo was a major failure inspite of a detailed article on the CodeProject.
Then looked into the TortoiseCVS. Inspiring integration with the windows shell. The ease of use was spell bounding. The help accompanying installation gave a detailed look into the two different methodologies for SourceControl namely, Lock-Modify-Unlock and Copy-Modify-Merge. TortoiseCVS uses C-M-M model.
A VS.NET plugin for TortoiseCVS was under development. I tried it but failed to Check out a module.
Then looked into the SubVersion alternative for CVS. Even this follows C-M-M model. But, the VS.NET plugin developed for SubVersion, ankhsvn looks good by seing the Screen Shots. Got to install svn soon and try it. The free book on subversion is excellent.
Then went on to read the Microsoft’s “Team Development Guide” from Patterns&Practices. This guide is indispensible for VSS and VS.NET users.
Another Microsoft Article from MSDN was very good. This is related to SourceControl and build control for Web Projects.
For now, using WinCVS and TortoiseCVS together.
Waiting for something to happen………