Christmas Sale

We are happy to announce that our Christmas Sale has started. From November 28th to December 26th we offer unconditional 10% discount on all our products.

http://www.jitbit.com/christmas-sale.aspx


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• Scott talks about naming a company or a product and mentions some good online naming tools.
• a very nice tool at iwantsandy.com - a robo-secretary. You can talk to Sandy through email or web. After registering on the website, you get an email address for sending commands to Sandy. Like "Remind me to drink beer on Friday". Sandy will understand and send you an email, an SMS or a Twitter ping on Friday. Sandy understands tags, CC-emails, remembers things in its database and many more. Check her out.

Jitbit AspNetForum just got better

As you might know, SQL Server Express 2005 has a great feature: it can automatically attach an .MDF file to a running instance of SQL Server Express when an application first establishes a connection. So if you run SQL Server Express - you simply place the database file to some location, modify the database connection string to something like "AttachDbFileName=c:\database.MDF" and you are ready to run.

Another great feature is the ASP.NET "App_Data" folder. If you are familiar with ASP.NET, you know that this special folder holds databases (.mdb and .mdf files), XML files, and other data stored in files. And the user account that is used to run the forum application (for example, the local ASPNET account) already has permissions to read, write, and create files in this folder by default.

Now I can't imagine how stupid we were - we never utilized these two great features before!

So please welcome Asp-Net-Forum 4.4.1.
1) The installation package now comes with a ready-to-use SQL Server Express 2005 database file (MDF-file).
2) Both MS Access sample database and SQL Express sample database files are now located in the "App_Data" folder.

Now, if you want to use the forum under MS Access or SQL Express, forget about dealing with file permissions, and, moreover, forget about editing the connection string! The installation just got easier - simply copy the forum to your website and start working in seconds.

Multilingual HelpDesk and AspNetForum - get a discount!

Just a quick note on what we're working on and a discount opportunity we offer.

For the last two weeks we are being focused on globalizing our ASP.NET-based software products. Our Help-Desk Software user interface has been completely reworked, and all language-specific elements are now configured as assembly resources... Don't mind this technical stuff. The point is, that the application is now easily localizable to other languages. The latest version of HelpDesk comes with English and German languages included, and we plan adding more languages in the future.

Our Asp-Net-Forum software is also being localized now. The first languages to support will be English and Dutch. Also, unlike HelpDesk, which is translated in full, AspNetForum will be translated partially (admin-area will remain in English, but all the topic pages, message-lists, search etc. will be translated). UPDATE: AspNetForum is also translated in full!

Help us with a translation and get a discount! We offer a huge (up to 50%) discount to anyone who will help us with the translation into one of the popular languages. Please contact us!