Monday, August 22, 2005 10:57 AM
harpua
New ASP.NET Project (Sorta)
A client I've been working with for about a year
wanted to get their internet website away from using the SQL Server
that is inside their DMZ. Since the database work the site does
is very minimal and mostly just lookups, the expense of licensing
another SQL Server was out of the question, so we decided to use MySQL
running on the webserver itself (not a high-traffic site).
The site was written in ASP with some VB6 backend DLLs doing mostly
data access. Well unfortunately the codebase was shared with the
companies internal Intranet site and the way it was written to try and
decouple it from the Intranet for use on Internet would have been
unwieldy. So we decided to switch the site to ASP.NET which they
are wanting to move to eventually but was never a high-priority.
I figure it will be easier to recreate the site in .NET (no content /
design changes) then to retrofit the VB6 code written many, many moons
ago.
So not exactly a new project, but always fun to jump into something
like this. I enjoy these type of projects as they are typically
low-risk and don't take a whole lot of brain-power so it's nice to get
a break from a heavy new project from time to time with something like
this.