In a former life, I did a lot of work in Visual Studio — writing custom apps in Visual Basic at datapanik, a partnership with my friend Adam Smith, then in VB and C++ at OpenCola during the bubble, then in C# in the early 2000’s. However, between having written only desktop apps and not having worked with newer versions, web app development in Visual Studio is completely unfamiliar turf for me. I’m picking it up slowly, but with my commitments and schedule, it might take a while.

Luckily, a stand-up guy named Bryan Costanich stepped up to the plate and, with a little consultation with me and the folks in tech support, put together the basis for an XCP/TPP client written in C#/.NET. He showed me a site written in C# that mimicked much of the functionality of the Tucows Reseller Web Interface (RWI) and it ran quite quickly — like snakes on ice.

I need to set aside some time to go through his code so I can write some docs and example code, but in the meantime, I’m posting the code here. If you’re familiar with Visual Studio, ASP.NET development and C#, you should be able to figure things out. If not, I’m working on the docs.

He gave me these two zip files:

• Tucows .NET Client [173K]
• Tucows .NET Client Test [128K]

Please note that this is not official code – it’s something that a partner wrote and kindly shared with us to share with you. It comes with no guarantees. Support won’t be able to help you, and I’m just figuring it out myself. I will be posting more articles about it, and if you have any comments, questions or suggestions, let me know in the comments for the article or drop me a line!

I’d like to thank Bryan for sharing his code with us. Without his generosity, I’d have way more work to do.

Posted on Friday, March 9th, 2007 at 6:15 pm by Tucows.
Filed under: Programming.
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