In a highly competitive market ASP.NET is a blessing. It gives a robust development platform to develop any scale of web application. ASP.NET stands for Active Server Pages and.NET framework, which has huge library of classes that contains pre-defined functions for common programming problems.

It is a dynamic page generating language. The core of.NET Framework contains the Common Language Runtime (CLR), which provides the runtime environment to execute the program developed for the.NET framework. ASP.NET Development can make use of Visual Studio.NET to design the ASP.NET Web Forms and debug and deploy ASP.NET web applications.

Hiring the best ASP.NET programmer is a daunting task. There are many ASP.NET programmers ready in the market but all don’t have such skill and portfolio that can finish your project successfully. The best way to find the best ASP.NET developer is to search him on outsourcing companies. Outsourcing companies have all infrastructures needed to hire a good programmer. They are mainly situated in the developing countries where such skill is in abundance and they can employ such manpower with comparatively cheaper rates.

They have another advantage of currency difference. Due to currency difference you can hire good ASP.NET developer at affordable rates. Hiring from outsourcing companies can save you from other headaches too. You can save yourself from the labor laws of your country. You can save taxation and from other liabilities of your country. Hiring from outsourcing companies is very easy and flexible. You can hire an ASP.NET programmer at hourly rate and take work of few hours. You can also hire an ASP.NET developer on daily, weekly or monthly basis and finish a big project in long run.

Communication is vital for the success of any project. They have good communication skills and facilities so you can manage your developer with ease. You can use international calling, VOIP, live chats, etc. and make a direct rapport with your developer at any time because they are working in shifts.

Outsourcing companies offer many benefits and allocating a team leader is one of them. They allocate a team leader when you hire more than one developer. This team leader shares all the responsibilities of your team and makes you free for other important work. Team leader will provide you all the reports needed to run your project and keep you informed with the latest development. Team leaders also serve as a contact point for you.

For those who need to design and create their own web pages, whether for personal use or for business purposes, there are few terms you should become familiar with. A few of those terms are “PHP,” “content management system,” and “Joomla.” The following article is a brief description of these three terms and tools and how you can use them to create, manage, and enhance dynamic web pages.

PHP

PHP originally stood for “personal home page,” as that was what it was designed to help create; however, today, PHP is used to create a variety of different types of web pages. Essentially, PHP is a scripting language that people need to know in order to design and produce dynamic web pages. PHP is free software, and because it is compatible with most web servers and almost every operating system and platform, it is widely used for general web page purposes and can even be embedded into HTML. In using PHP, a web server takes a PHP code as input and creates web page content as output.

Content Management System

A system that utilizes PHP codes is a content management system or CMS. CMS software uses the PHP scripting language to create and manage HTML content as well as other documents and images. And this software not only helps you create web content, but also allows you to control and edit that content.

Essentially, a CMS makes creating and managing web pages simpler and more understandable. In fact, most content management systems are designed so that users that have little or no knowledge of programming languages can create and manage their own web pages. These systems store content in databases and offer a variety of web page templates for the user to choose from.

Joomla

Joomla is a content management system that users around the world use to publish content on the web and internet. Like many other content managing systems, it is written in the PHP programming language and uses a database to store information. Some of the features that the system includes are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla extensions and templates are typically distributed as a zip file or other compressed format that must be installed before implementing. With this set of basic functions and the countless other free Joomla extensions available, creating a dynamic web page to improve businesses (or to enhance personal pages) is easy to manage in-house.

As a content management system, Joomla offers a variety of great benefits for those looking to create their own web pages. First of all, and perhaps most importantly, Joomla is free. And as new versions and updates of Joomla are released, new features and improvements also become available. Joomla is fast growing and offers limitless possibilities for future applications.

Another major benefit of Joomla is how easy it is to add or modify content. With Joomla, you can add images and other multimedia elements, and you can also organize and manage important data with relative ease.

And as Joomla has gained increasing popularity, it has won many awards for its features and services. Joomla’s popularity offers another often-ignored benefit to users. Because so many users are familiar with Joomla, there is a plethora of forums, web pages, and directories centered on how to use Joomla and to help those who have questions or experiencing problems with the software. And the software is also well supported by developers and service providers. Hence, if you have a question about Joomla, chances are that with very little effort, you can find the answer.

One of the other advantages of Joomla is that it offers a variety of free Joomla extensions. Some extensions are called “plugins” which are background extensions that extend Joomla with new functionality. “Components” are also Joomla extensions that allow users to expand the number of features on their web page, backup their websites, translate content, and create URLs. “Modules” also expand a web pages’ functionality by adding features such as a calendar display or Google AdSense.

In fact, these extensions offer perhaps the biggest benefits of using Joomla. Some of these extensions include dynamic form builders, image and multimedia galleries, e-commerce and shopping cart engines, forums and chat software, calendars, blogging software, email newsletters, data collection and reporting tools, banner advertising systems, subscription services, and more. And there are a host of other free Joomla extensions that can enhance any webpage.

Specifically, there are five Joomla extensions that are arguably the most popular. “Community Builder” allows users to extend profiles, enhance registration workflows, user lists, and much more. “FireBoard Forum” is a forum that is both stylish and powerful and will allow visitors of the web page to engage in discussion and commentary. “Expose Flash Gallery” is an extension that creates slide shows from your own uploaded images. And Joomla’s “Events Calendar” is a classic that informs viewers of important dates and events.

And even though Joomla is simple to use, these many extensions allow a person to create the most complex of corporate websites. In fact, Joomla is used for a variety of applications including corporate websites, small business websites, non-profit and organizational websites, government applications, school and church websites, personal or family homepages, community-based portals, magazines and newspapers, and online commerce. Essentially, if you need to create a webpage for any purpose, Joomla has the reliability and outstanding features to help you create the webpage you need.

Once you understand the basic concepts of PHP and content managing systems, you are ready to start creating your own web page. And with a reliable, free CMS such as Joomla, you will soon be on your way to creating and managing a web page that directly meets all of your needs.

1. This programing language is accepted by maximum web programmers for its open source features.
2. PHP is a server side programming language that is widely used for web programming.
3. PHP language has some similarity with C and C++ programming. PHP syntax is quite similar to C and C++ syntax thus, a PHP programmer can easily learn it and make use of it in their respective works.
4. PHP programming language can run on both Windows and UNIX servers.
5. My-SQL is well known online database and can be interfaced very well with PHP. Therefore, PHP and My-SQL are an excellent combination for small business owners.
6. PHP language has got the powerful output buffering techniques that further increases over the output flow.
7. PHP can be used with a large number of relational database management systems, runs on all of the most popular web servers.
8. PHP5 is dynamic, platform independent and fully object oriented language that helps to build complex and large web applications.

1. In Dot Net programing the programming codes and the HTML exist in different files.
2. Dot Net frame works are hugely used for doing specific applications.
3. Automatic garbage collection is possible in Dot Net programming.
4. Dot Net uses safe type cast and Strong and powerful IDE’s for better and faster application development.
5. As this is a consistent programming model, it has got the direct support for security, in short Dot Net is highly secured programming language.
6. Dot Net provides an attribute called Serialization which is used for publishing or producing an item in the form of a series of information bits.
7. It is language independent, so if the team has multiple skill expertise like C#, Dot Net, C++, developers can still work on the same project with different skills set.
8. MS technologies provides RAD (rapid application development) to deliver project faster, because customers always prefer faster delivery.
9. Dot Net debugging is very effort-less therefore, can fix the bugs quicker.

Oh, It happen, Microsoft and Zend are now partners, they will improve the PHP on windows.

What a coincidence that this  news came at a time when I was planning to start a series on PHP programming with dotNet.

 As per the Zend Press Release

Microsoft Corp. and Zend Technologies Inc. today announced a technical collaboration to enhance the experience of running the PHP scripting language on Windows Server® 2003. The parties expect to extend the collaboration to the next version of Windows Server, code-named “Longhorn.” The resulting technology enhancements and ongoing interaction with the PHP community is expected to enable customers to take advantage of the Windows Server platform. The cooperative effort seeks to provide customers with richer functionality and better integration, resulting in improved performance and increased reliability.

The technology engagement between the two companies will include the following:

• Technical improvements for PHP deploying on the Windows Server platform will be submitted under the PHP license to the PHP community for feedback and contribution.
• Microsoft plans to develop and release an Internet Information Services (IIS) add-on component, FastCGI, that will serve as the interface between PHP and the IIS Web server. Microsoft expects that this FastCGI component will be made freely available from Microsoft on http://www.iis.net for users of Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vistaâ„¢ and Windows Server “Longhorn.”
• Zend will establish a Windows testing lab and conduct regular tests and performance improvements to maintain high performance of PHP on the Windows Server platform as PHP evolves.
• Microsoft and Zend will work to help ensure a production-quality PHP runtime environment for IIS 5.1 (Windows XP), IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003) and IIS 7.0 (Windows Vista and Windows Server “Longhorn”).
• Zend and Microsoft will actively participate in the PHP community, ensuring open discussion to help developers planning to deploy PHP applications on the Windows Server platform.

“Interoperability continues to be an important requirement for our customers, particularly when it comes to open source applications that run on Windows. This announcement today continues our commitment to making it easier for partners and developers — regardless of the development model they employ — to take advantage of increased reliability of the Microsoft Windows Server platform,” said Bill Hilf, general manager of Technical Platform Strategy at Microsoft. “Zend is a clear leader in the PHP community, and we are excited to be working with it on this joint collaboration effort designed to provide developers using PHP with the best possible experience within a Microsoft environment.”

“With a majority of PHP developers developing on the Windows platform, we saw a great opportunity to work together with Microsoft to improve the overall experience for our joint customers,” said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and chief technology officer at Zend. “Since our preliminary work with Microsoft, we have already seen a better than 100 percent performance gain with some PHP applications on Windows Server 2003.”

Zend and Microsoft will contribute the PHP improvements to the PHP community under the PHP license. Starting in the first quarter of 2007, Zend intends to use the improved technology in its Zend Core product line. A technology preview of the updated Windows version of Zend Core is available today at http://www.zend.com. Zend will also use the technology for its Zend Platform product line to enable its customers to support business-critical PHP production environments on the Windows Server platform.

“In February we announced a technical collaboration with Microsoft to enable our customers to optimize their existing Windows infrastructure,” said John Roberts, chairman and chief executive officer of SugarCRM Inc., a leading open source application company employing PHP. “This announcement underscores the demand from open source developers to take advantage of the Windows Sever platform and Microsoft’s commitment to make that happen.”

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Welcome,

On this site I will write the story of my journey from being a pure PHP developer on linux to a dotNet Programmer in PHP on Windows.

Thats all for now.