Blog

December is a great time to… start learning new things. You know - the atmosphere of New Year’s resolution and bringing somethink new to… your projects and skills.

ASP.NET 3.5 Web Forms - what a …

At the universtity this year I’ve started classes “Web application programming”. I thought it would be… wait for it… breathtakingm but it is not. We are learning a little old. We are learning outdated technology which for me - it’s a little bit puzzling. Why? It’s a little bit old (2008) and full of security, performance and coding vulnerabilities. In class we have to do an project for simple shop from scratch:

• CRUD operations (add, edit, remove shop items),
• authentication,
• email service.

But when we need to do something as per the task statement - in some parts it is impossible to do in Visual Studio 2019. Example: we had to create users and roles in our app. But in Visual Studio 2019 we can’t because there was no option for do this. Sooo… we had to install IDE called “Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008” and after few hours we did it.

And here comes the ASP.NET Core

As a condition of passing the classes we had to do an similar web aplication in ASP.NET 3.5 Web Forms. But I realized it will be soo painful and non-developing my skills. Because of that I’ve decided to talk with our teacher and persuade him to allow me to do project in ASP.NET Core because it has a lot of pros:

• open source (all code available on GitHub),
• cross-platform (runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows),
• good competitor for NodeJS (this guys say that “We increased throughput by 2,000%” with .NET Core),
• great documentation (link to Microsoft Docs),
• very lightweigh and high-performance.

It worked and from 2 months I’ve been learning ASP.NET Core from docs, articles and online tutorials.

Work in progress

Soo at the end of January 2020 I’ll have to show my project and plans for future development of it. Stay tuned for more details about it.