Justin Cooney

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

Category: Classic ASP

  • Internet Explorer Friendly Error Messages: Not So Friendly After All

    If you are a programmer trying to debug an application, then the last thing you want to see is a so-called Friendly Error Message rather than what actually happened. I personally don’t think that this has any benefit even to non-programmers since they still just see a confusing warning such as a HTTP 500 error…

  • Classic ASP – Example of a Basic Database Connection (SQLOLEDB)

    I’m revisiting some classic ASP functionality, and in this case I’m reviewing how to set up a simple database connection to a SQL Server database. There are of course several ways to get this to work, and in this case we will use the SQLOLEDB provider. Classic ASP is Still Used and Maintained There are…

  • Classic ASP Revisited: A Simple Name Parsing Function

    Recently I was asked to update our homegrown timesheet application that had been written years ago in classic ASP. The update was simply to take a user name in the string format ‘Last Name, First Name’ and convert this to our company standard email format of FirstLetterofFirstName + LastName + @companyname.com Now it has been…