Developer

The MickBraz website was created for training and reference purposes. This website showcase some of our programming capabilities. See contact details if you are interested in these programming services.

MickBraz also makes/supports websites for Australian business. Go to MickBraz Australia if you are interesrted in an Australian website.

Methodologies

On the web server

The MickBraz website is run on Microsoft Internet Information Server and data is stored on Microsoft SQL Server. The website is developed with Microsoft Visual Studio, incorporating the C# language, .NET Framework and ASP.NET.

Programming on the server uses these methodologies for efficiency and reliability:

• Object Oriented Programming (OOP). This is a decades old methodology that works very well and saves time and effort in the development of the MickBraz website.
• The MickBraz website also uses a custom code generator to build some parts of the web site from the data model.
• Multilayer architecture (or n-tier architecture) is a methodology that separates the functions of the programming. In the MickBraz website, the layers are:
  • Data access – handles CRUD operations between the application and the SQL server.
    This is a C#.NET application and is the code is generated from the SQL database schema.
    The code generator program creates C# code for The CRUD operations and data model classes.
  • Business rules – this turns data into information and sits between the data access layer and the communication layer.
  • Communication and security – this is the web site that serves pages to the users and talks to the database.
  • Presentation – this involves creating the web pages for the users of the web site.

On the client

The website pages are comprised of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
The presentation relies on the bootstrap toolkit.
Data entry pages are developed with the AngularJS library.
More feature rich pages are developed with the latest version of Angular.IO or React.
Speed and reliability are achieved by having reliable documented methodologies for building the web pages.

Angular, React and ASP.NET

The Visual Studio solution is an ASP.NET Web API website which includes MVC.
The builds of Angular and React are manually added to the solution folder under the OtherApps folder, and also added to the published website.
The Angular and React apps are not added to the Visual Studio solution.
Links are added in the solution to the html files of the apps eg. href="~/OtherApps/CardGame/index.html".

I use ng build --base-href '/OtherApps/CardGame/' for the Angular build so that the links in the Angular app match the address when running on the web server.
I use "homepage": "/OtherApps/NumberGame/", in the package.json file so that the links in the React app match the address when running on the web server.

Some useful references

• Microsoft Developer Network http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/
• The bootstrap toolkit https://getbootstrap.com/
• React, building user interfaces https://reactjs.org/
• Angular - One Framework https://angular.io/
• The angularJS JavaScript library https://angularjs.org/
• Stack overflow developer Q&A http://stackoverflow.com/
• W3schools tutorials http://www.w3schools.com/

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