ASP.NET

PayItSquare Widget

Brian Anderson — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:54:00 GMT

If you are interested in using a widget to help you collect money we have the answer. Here is an example of the Pay It Square widget we just published on WidgetBox.com

Building a .Net Startup - PayItSquare.com

Brian Anderson — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:53:00 GMT

I have recently been doing a presentation about building a start up web business using .net technology.

Here is the PowerPoint presentation and code samples from my .net user group presentation on 9/18/2007. You can find the NuSoft Framework on CodePlex.

Here is the synopsis of my presentation:

Building A .Net Startup

Building a .Net application from scratch can be daunting. There are so many ways to build an application and many of the early decisions affect your future development efforts significantly. Brian Anderson will open up the hood and walkthrough the details of how he architected and developed one of his startup businesses, PayItSquare.com (www.payitsquare.com). He will walk through building UI, business and data layers (with LINQ!), leveraging ASP.NET SQL membership, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, ASP.NET AJAX Control toolkit, SQL Server 2005 and credit card processing using PayPal’s Website Payment Pro. The goal of this talk is to show how you bring all the details together to get your ideas off the ground successfully using .Net.

Speaker Bio:
Brian Anderson is a Solutions Director at NuSoft Solutions and owner of Tourney Logic (www.tourneylogic.com). He specializes in consulting, architecting and leading development of scalable .Net applications for well-known business such as National City Mortgage (www.nationalcityhomeloans.com) and entrepreneurs with great startup businesses such as Spout (www.spout.com), Indistr.com (www.indistr.com) and Crayon Interface (www.crayoninterface.com) to name a few. Brian is also among of the first group to be accepted into PayPal’s new PayPal Certified Developer program.

Presenting on Tuesday Night

Brian Anderson — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:18:00 GMT

I will be presenting my “Building a .Net Startup” presentation on Tuesday Sept. 18 at 6pm for the West Michigan .net user group. Here is my synopsis:

Building A .Net Startup

Building a .Net application from scratch can be daunting. There are so many ways to build an application and many of the early decisions affect your future development efforts significantly. Brian Anderson will open up the hood and walkthrough the details of how he architected and developed one of his startup businesses, PayItSquare.com (www.payitsquare.com). He will walkthrough building UI, business and data layers (with LINQ!), leveraging ASP.NET SQL membership, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, ASP.NET AJAX Control toolkit, SQL Server 2005 and credit card processing using PayPal’s Website Payment Pro. The goal of this talk is to show how you bring all the details together to get your ideas off the ground successfully using .Net.

I will post the PPT and code samples after the presentation.

MIX 07

Brian Anderson — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:11:00 GMT

Joel and I are both attending the MIX 07 conference in Las Vegas starting April 30. I am very interested to see the lastest WPF, ASP.NET AJAX and LINQ demos. Scott Guthrie is presenting on all of this and always gives a great demo talks.

We used ASP.NET AJAX extensively in both PayItSquare and MyPlayoffs. It really simplifies Javascript development and makes the web applications much easier to use.

I am especially looking forword to LINQ and DLINQ. We had to build Code Smith templates to generate business objects and data access layers in the past. I am hoping this new technology will simplify this type of work and still be extensible enough to accomplish all of the logic we have to support in our business layers.

WPF is the next logical step for the Tourney Bracket Control at some point. We want to support both Web and Windows with a unified format!

Tourney Bracket Control 2.0 Update

Brian Anderson — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:34:00 GMT

We are still working on the Tourney Bracket Control 2.0. The beta license has just been updated to 3/1/2006. Download the updated Bracket Quickstart Tutorial again to get the updated license.

We have been slowed down with this release working on double elimination. It is coming along and we actually have it figured out but the testing is taking way longer then we expected. Due to the time constraints of trying to get it done and our need to get Tourney Pool Manager ready to go for March Madness 2006 we have decided to postpone the double elimination until after March Madness as part of Tourney Bracket Control 3.0. We plan to finish the final testing on Tourney Bracket Control 2.0 without double elimination and release it sometime in January.

Tourney Bracket Control 2.0 (Beta) QuickStart Source Code Available

Brian Anderson — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:30:00 GMT

The source code is now available for the TBC 2.0 (Beta). The QuickStart tutotrial and the TBC 2.0 are written in ASP.NET 2.0. We recommending using Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer Express / SQL Express (Note: the express products are free until 11/8/2006!!).

View the live Tourney Bracket Control 2.0 (Beta) QuickStart Tutorial.

Download the TBC 2.0 (Beta) QuickStart Source Code.

Learn more about the upcoming TBC 2.0 release.

TBC 2.0 Licensing Note: We are still working through the licensing details but at this point we are leaning towards having one option that will cost less than $50! Stay tuned for more information.

Tourney Bracket Control 2.0 (Beta) Demo Videocast

Brian Anderson — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:42:00 GMT

Watch our videocast of the Tourney Bracket Control 2.0 (Beta) in action!

Stream the Quick Demo Videocast (~1 minute):
150kps | 340kps

Stream the Full Demo Videocast (12 minutes):
150kps | 340kps

This demo will quickly walk you through building your first tournament bracket and publishing results without writing any code. The next part of the demo shows you how to generate a 16 team bracket layout dynamically with just 3 lines of code. Lastly, the video shows how to leverage the data binding in ASP.NET 2.0 using a SQLDataSource Control to create bracket and load results from a database. It is an action packed 12 minutes of demos that really shows off the power of our 2.0 release.

During the video I am using Microsoft's Visual Web Developer Express. Microsoft is making this tool available free for the first year! It is an exteremly powerful web development tool and the TBC works great with it.

Check out my previous post to see another code sample and to learn about the Tourney Bracket Control 2.0 QuickStart. We will be publishing the source code for the QuickStart in the next few days.

Let us know what you think.

Thanks Alex

Brian Anderson — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:35:00 GMT

Check out Alex Lowe's blog posting about Tourney Logic. Thanks Alex for the nice write up. We appreciate your support!

For those that don't know, Alex just left Microsoft to work with Telligent Systems (makers of the Community Server). This product is getting tons of attention and has a real strong team including Rob Howard (former ASP.NET program manager), Scott Watermasysk (developer of .Text) and Jason Alexander (developer of nGallery). Watch out for this up and coming company. They are on to something good.

Unleash It is a fantastic utility

Brian Anderson — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:05:00 GMT

I would highly recommend Unleash It for any ASP.NET web developer. It makes deploying your ASP.NET site a snap.

We started using this to help deploy our web applications when developing in ASP.NET. It was always such a challenge to upload and it took forever because the built in upload utility with VS.NET just uploads everything. Unleash it solves those problems. You can easily tell it which files to upload and setup FTP profiles. Now publish ASP.NET applications is very simple.

TL customers, this is a nice utility if you want to publish the Tourney Pool Manager Internet Version files up to their web host! Give it a try.

Update Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) Web Part Controls

Brian Anderson — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:57:00 GMT

Nikhil from the ASP.NET team just posted a nice write up on web parts functionality coming in the next version of Visual Studio .Net. We are very excited for this type of functionality. It should find its way in to Tourney Logic products in the near future.

Check it out at: http://www.nikhilk.net/CrossPageConnections.aspx