Contents tagged with maintenance
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Code Rot In Commercial ASP.NET Web Applications
Over the weekend I was busy fixing a shipping problem in the commercial ASP.NET 1.1 web application, Storefront 6.0 by LaGarde. When the United States Postal Service (USPS) changed their web services it caused some problems for many web sites that use shopping carts. I know OsCommerce, a PHP and MySQL open source shopping cart, had problems but this was quickly fixed because it is open source software. Web sites that used Storefront 6.0 were not so lucky because the developer has abandoned this product. I know they still support their high end version for some really big enterprise clients but they have angered many small business clients by dropping support for Storefront 6.0. This shopping cart already had 8 service packs but there have been no more code fixes for over a year. It was never converted to ASP.NET 2.0.