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ASP.NET Forms Authentication "Remember Me"

Another post for ASP.NET developers. By the way if you think these posts do not belong to this blog, please leave a comment, and I'll consider moving my development articles to a separate blog.

Today I needed to set up a "remember me" functionality for our web-based HelpDesk app and small-business CRM app login pages. If you ever tried to achieve this using .NET's FormsAuthentication, you might have noticed that... it's just not working. Even if you pass the "createPersistentCookie" parameter value as "true" when initializing FormsAuthentication - the cookie still lives for a limited time only - the time specified as the Forms-Authentication timeout in "web.config". Then the cookie dies.

Email support vs. Phone support

37signals blog has a great post on phone vs email support.

Email Marketing vs. Spam - what's the difference?

What's the difference between spam and email marketing?

Macro Recorder: another trigger example

Another example of "triggering" events with our Macro Recorder software and the IF statement. The following script makes Macro Recorder wait until Notepad window has appeared.

SEO friendly URLs with ASP.NET

Search engines like human-readable URLs with keywords in it, and hesitate to respect messy URLs with a lot of query-string parameters. So, to make our ASP.NET database-driven website SEO-friendly we have to get rid of our complex URLs.

How to find the right idea for your mISV

Since Jitbit is a "mISV" (a software company with less than 10 employees), I'm sharing some mISV-thoughts.

Macro Recorder: new timing architecture

Here is another post in the series of "the making of" posts where I speak a bit about what we're doing on the next versions of our products.

Why we still use VB6 for some projects

I've been asked several times, what programming language do we use in our development. Here it is:

C# for ASP.NET applications including Help-Desk and CRM
C++ and VB6 for desktop apps like Macro Recorder or AutoText - AKA "Text Expander for Windows"

Help-Desk demo

UPDATE from 2019: I just realized a lot of people land on this page looking for a demo of our helpdesk app. We used to have a demo back in the days when we offered only the server (AKA "on-premise") version of the helpdesk app. But since we now also offer the "hosted" version that runs in the cloud, we removed the demo because you can easily try the "saas" one. All you have to do is sign up for a trial and you'll be redirected to the helpdesk online demo in seconds (literally). The trial account will stay active for 21 days, and if that's not enough - simply ask us to extend it or register another trial account.

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