Our Work

What follows is a partial list of our many accomplishments.

Microsoft Content

Development Insites is often asked to create and review training materials for Microsoft. A few of our major contributions include:

• Building numerous 60- and 90-minute MSDN and TechNet online workshops and seminars that involve PowerPoint slide deck presentations accompanied by scripted demos and Camtasia-recorded videos. A recent example we built: Optimizing ASP.NET 1.1 Web Applications (Level 200).
• Writing articles, such as An Overview of Visual C# 2005 and twenty-three “How To” articles on the .NET Framework for the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
• Building 26 of the highly popular 101 Visual Basic .NET sample applications.

Books & Articles

The owner of Development Insites, Patrick Barnes, is a joint author of 101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications, published by Microsoft Press (2003). Specifically, he wrote the chapters on ADO .NET, Web applications and Web services, and Enterprise Services.

He has also authored numerous articles, including the following:

• ASP .NET Security, Part 1: Forms Authentication
• ASP .NET Security, Part 2: Role-Based Authorization
• ASP .NET Security, Part 3: Personalization
• Performance Optimization in .NET Web Applications
• Build and Consume an ASP.NET Web Service
• Implementing Enterprise Services (COM+) in .NET
• Custom ASP .NET Validator Controls
• Graceful Error Handling in a .NET Web Application
• How to Set Up a Web Site Search Engine Using ASP.NET and Windows 2000 Indexing Service (ASPToday.com)
• How to Build a Master-Details Web Application, Part I (ASPToday.com)
• How to Build a Master-Details Web Application, Part II (ASPToday.com)

Courseware

Development Insites produced the following series of Web-based training courses on Web Services for the Intel Corporation.

• How to Build and Consume a Web Service
• Returning Structured Data from a Web Service
• Web Service Caching
• Calling Web Services Asynchronously
• Custom Soap Headers in Web Services
• Building a Secure Web Service
• Soap Extensions
• Web Service Discovery with UDDI
• Web Service Deployment

Web Applications

We include the following Web sites in our list of ASP .NET accomplishments, all of which were outsourced to us by Geonetric Technologies, LLC:

• UncutMountainSupply.com: This is an e-commerce site built in classic ASP.
• Skete.com: This is an e-commerce site built in ColdFusion MX.
• Let's Go Walkin' Mississippi (Blue Cross Blue Shield): This is a small site built to track and display data for a member's walking program. This site was built in PHP and uses a Flash-based database-driven chart to display journal data.
• Brand Asset Manager: Allows users to create custom Adobe Acrobat files for a variety of document types, and then print them or upload via FTP to a print shop. The business logic and wizard-based user interface ensure that all created documents conform to the organization's brand identity and standards. Uses Adobe Acrobat development tools created by WebSuperGoo for the ASP.NET platform.
• Genesis Health System: Includes a robust administrative back end and integrated content creation and management system with an XML-configurable roles-based security mechanism.