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.NET Core 3.0.3 and .NET Core 3.1.3 Available

April 11, 2020Announcements, Technical.NET Core, .NET Core 3.0.3, .NET Core 3.1.3Takeshi Eto

Over the past years, Microsoft has been continuing their rapid deployment initiative and releasing minor versions of .NET Core on their own schedule and without much fanfare as was the case with past releases of ASP.NET. (In the past, Microsoft ran entire conferences to push out new ASP.NET versions – remember MIX?)

While we have been keeping pace – as much as we can – with the cadence of .NET Core releases, because of the frequency and low fanfare from Microsoft, we haven’t been making announcements about it. Lately, we’ve seen an increase in questions from customers and potential customers alike on whether or not we support a particular version of .NET Core. So we will start to announce server support for particular .NET Core versions.

So, I’m announcing today that .NET Core 3.0.3 and .NET Core 3.1.3 are both installed on DiscountASP.NET servers. This means that you can deploy apps built with .NET Core 3.0.3 and .NET Core 3.1.3 using framework-dependent deployment (FDD).

We keep a list of the .NET Core versions that are installed on the servers in this knowledge base article.

But please note that even if a particular .NET Core version that you are using is not installed on the server, we do support your application because you can deploy your application using Self-Contained Deployment (SCD). Here is a knowledge base article on how to switch from framework-dependent deployment to self-contained deployment in visual studio.

If you have any questions on any of this, you can always reach out to our technical support staff and they can help you out.

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COVID-19 and DiscountASP.NET

March 20, 2020Inside DiscountASP.NETcovid19Takeshi Eto

You’ve no doubt have been keeping up to date about coronavirus and all the precautions being taken across the world. We had to make some adjustments like many of you.

Lat week, the day after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, we asked our staff to start working from home to keep our DiscountASP.NET staff safe and healthy. Yesterday, California instituted a “stay at home” order which means for the foreseeable future our staff will be working from their homes. We’ve always had the systems set up to work remotely, but this will be the first time ALL of our staff will be working from home. So there is going to be a little learning curve as we get used to this new normal.

Please be assured that the level of service you expect from us will not change during this unprecedented time, even though our staff may be working in their pajamas.

If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

Please stay safe and healthy.

DiscountASP.NET renews EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Certification

October 17, 2019AnnouncementsEU- US Privacy Shield, privacy shield, Swiss-EU Privacy ShieldTakeshi Eto

I’m happy to announce that we renewed the EU-US Privacy Shield and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Certification. Of course, we worked with our Privacy Management Solutions Partner, TrustArc (formerly Truste) to help us through the renewal process. You can get more information about the Privacy Shield program at privacyshield.gov. You can review our Privacy Policy online here.

The whole global Privacy regulation landscape is continuously changing and is more complex than ever. Running a business is hard enough and there is no way we could keep up with what is going on with global Privacy regulations on top of that. That is why we look to partners like TrustArc to keep up-to-date and help us and guide us in navigating global Privacy standards.

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October 2019 Web Application Gallery Updates

October 2, 2019Announcementsweb app galleryRay

Below is a list of our Web Application Gallery updates for October 2019.

DotNetNuke (DNN) 9.4.0 Platform
Joomla 3.9.11
mediaWiki 1.33.0
Moodle 3.7.2
nopCommerce 4.20
Orchard 1.10.3
phpBB 3.2.7
phpMyAdmin 4.9.0.1
SilverStripe 4.4.3
Umbraco CMS 8.1.4
WordPress 5.2.3

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How to add a View in ASP.NET MVC

June 14, 2019TechnicalASP.NET MVCLavish

In the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, the view handles the application’s data presentation and user interaction. A view is an HTML template with embedded Razor markup. Razor markup is code that interacts with HTML markup to produce a web page that’s sent to the client.

In ASP.NET MVC, views are .cshtml files that use the C# programming language in Razor markup.

Let’s start by creating a controller:

In Solution Explorer, right click on the Controllers folder and click on Add then Controller like this:

In the Add Scaffold dialog box, click MVC 5 Controller – Empty then Add:

Name your new controller “AboutUsController” and click on Add button:

Now, you will get a controller and a view folder in your Solution Explorer.
Let us add a view to this controller that will act as a data presentation and user interaction page.

Right click on the “ActionResult Index ()”and click Add view:

In the Add View window, use the layout (if you have any).
Click on Add button.

You should see a view created in the “AboutUs” folder like this:

Build your project and you can view your new view / page by going to this URL:

http://localhost:#####/AboutUs/ where ##### represents the port number.

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About Guest Blogger: Lavish Kumar

Based out of New York, USA, Lavish Kumar is a full stack web developer by profession and founder of Striving Programmers, a trusted community for developers that offers a wealth of articles and forums to assist individuals with improving their software development skills. He is passionate about writing tech articles and building great web applications. Lavish specializes in custom web applications, e-Commerce platforms, CMS implementation and CRM systems.

Adding a Custom Login Error Message in WordPress

May 28, 2019Technicalcustom login error, wordpressLavish

Do you want to display a custom login error message on your WordPress site instead of the same old default message that is being displayed on every other WordPress site? While there is probably a plugin to accomplish this, we have created a quick code snippet that will do the job without having to install any 3^rd party plugin.

Now, navigate to Appearance -> Editor.

Edit this page allows you to make changes to your theme files.
Select the theme that you are using on your WordPress site.
Select “functions.php” file.

In this example, we are using the “Twenty Sixteen” theme.

Now, we are going to add a function that will pass the custom login error message.
Add the following code (below) at the bottom of your functions.php file.

function add_custom_login_error_message(){
return ‘Wrong credentials – Sit back, relax and think about your login information for a minute and when you are sure, try again.’;
}

add_filter( ‘login_errors’, ‘add_custom_login_error_message’ );

In this code, we have created a function “function add_custom_login_error_message()”, and we are passing it to login error.

After saving your functions.php file, if you try to login to your WordPress site and enter incorrect login credentials, you should see this custom error message:

You can use the sample code snippet to insert your own copy for the login error and you did it without additional plugins.

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About Guest Blogger: Lavish Kumar

Microsoft Silver Partner Status Renewed with Three Competencies

May 11, 2019AnnouncementsMicrosoft Partner Network, Microsoft Silver PartnerTakeshi Eto

I’m proud to announce that we have successfully renewed our Microsoft Silver Partner status with three competencies – Silver Datacenter competency, Silver Cloud Platform Hosting competency and the Small and MidMarket Cloud Solutions competency. So we got to expand our Microsoft Partner logo with the new competencies!