This will be the first of a series of weekly updates about the Cash Tracker Online project.
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I’ve decided to go ahead with the online version of Cash Tracker. I purchased and parked the domain on my personal hosting account today. You can view the “coming soon” splash page here. I’ve also decided to convert Cash Tracker to a web project before implementing any of the new features. I think the development will be much faster-paced because programming for the web is my strong suit. Also, the tool will be much more accessible on the web, and version control will be much easier to implement (no more converting .tfx files to a new version because of a schema change).
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For a while now, I’ve had a website that was sporadically encountering the following error:
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If your web application relies on session to persist the user’s state and you’ve ever tried writing your own HTTP handler, you’ve probably run into an error: “Session state is not available in this context”. Thankfully, there is a simple remedy.
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Any time I have code I need to release for an ASP.NET website that I know is going to cause a recompile (like anything in app_code, any new binaries, master pages, user controls, etc.) I try to avoid doing it when I know there are a lot of users on the site. The best way to ensure that nobody will be using your website is to add scheduled maintenance support to your site. It’s very easy to do and it can save you and your users a lot of headache while you make updates.
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