Aaron Schnieder on ASP.NET

  • ASP.NET PayPal Website Standard Implementation

    PayPal's Website Payments Standard is an awesome way for businesses to accept credit card payments with minimal integration & no need to worry about credit card security and PCI compliance. Plus, if you offer a SaaS (Software As A Service) as we do at Church Office Online, PayPal will handle your subscriptions & recurring payments for you. Plus they give you a very friendly interface to manage your subscription, issue refunds and view reports for all of your activity.

  • Huge VB.NET Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008

    I personally prefer C# over VB.NET, however the gestapo of decision making where I work have declared VB.NET the only language of choice for all things programming. So in a recent effort to get approval to use Visual Studio 2008 for development (don't even ask) I did some research on specific performance improvements that VS 2008 offers. I found the following blog post by the VB.NET team that details some awesome performance gains in compiling VB.NET code:

  • IIS Web Deployment Tool

    The IIS team has just released a technical preview of an AWESOME new tool that will help keep websites on different servers in sync and also help with the migration to IIS. Here is a quote from their blog post: