After some months working, finding and fixing bugs in the earlier version of ASP Xtreme Evolution, I’m proud to release the version 1.0.1.0. This is a very stable version. It comes with snippets to increase the productiveness and has some minor changes to help you to organize the code. I suggest those using the v.1.0.0.0 to upgrade as soon as possible. If you can’t upgrade, check the CHANGES in the Read More to fix your old version against the critical issues.

One week ago Digitarald released the version 2.0 beta 4 of his very good FancyUpload component. Unfortunately I’ve noticed that many ASP and ASP.NET users were falling in trouble to implement it. In this tutorial I’ll try to cover the key things to get it working. I’ll be also using this guide to introduce new comers to ASP Xtreme Evolution development process.

I’ve created a SVN for ASP Xtreme Evolution at DevjaVu so, everyone interested in this project can now use a subversion client like Tortoise to checkout the lastest version of the project. Users can also post new tickets and give suggestions through the trac. I hope that this initiative make a more Open Source face to ASP Xtreme Evolution Framework and make it ready for other developers to join the work.

Ok, this is the scenario: You gave your best making a beauty and useful comment form to increase your site interactiveness but like 90% of the posts are f…… spams. What to do?

Today I’m releasing three ASP 3.0 classes to encrypt data. They are based on the Phil Fresle from Frez Systems Limited work and the algorithms available are MD5, SHA256 and Rijndael. Feel free to get’em and start encoding your passwords and other secret things.

After reading http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972323.aspx and Why String Operations are so Slow, possessed by a deep feeling of duty, I’ve wrote a class that would help developers to handle their string concatenation processes in a smart way.

Our business partner Clear Sale is a company specialized in behavior scoring. They withhold the major brazilian e-commerce shops as their customers. With their system, you can share a risk database with players like Submarino, Americanas and others. This database only goal is to be a source for an assertive score about the risk of a received order from your shop be or not a fraud.

The class.clearsale.asp is a Classic ASP class which provides a complete integration with their current web service. It’s licensed under the MIT License and anyone interested in using it is welcome.

Very often you need a consistent and coherent pattern to take the best of a technology can provide with the maximum productivity, yet you must respect the history involved around this technology to make it compliant with the legacy environment turning your application accessible and easy of adaptation.