About Us
asp.netSoftware started as a solution
for developers, by developers. Web developers and Internet Service Providers are the number one
buyers of web-based software. Every employee at aspDotNetSoftware is a web developer. Every web designer/programmer
has been in a situation where he or she needed to decide between purchasing an existing application or starting
from scratch to meet a client's needs. There are a few items that come to mind when purchasing another
developer's code base.
The most obvious questions are:
- Is this code any good?
- How flexible is the architecture?
- Is the source code included?
All of us here got sick and tired of feeling like our best option was to write a web application from scratch, because
the products that were available were inadequate. For example, let's take our first product, WindowsPanel. Like many
other web companies, we provide web hosting to many of our clients. We were in need of a hosting control panel so that
out clients could manage their hosting accounts by themselves. We looked for a product that offered the simple items
like FTP user management, MS SQL database creation, IIS management, etc. After researching all of the Windows control panels,
we found that none of them met our needs. The ones that were close didn't include the source code; thus, we weren't able
to make the modifications we needed. Our only option was to write the solution from scratch.
While WindowsPanel was in development, we decided to start a new website that would offer ASP.NET applications to other
developers that found themselves in the same situation. Ironically, WindowsPanel was originally named DotNetHostingPanel
and had that name since development started at the beginning of 2006 (we even registered the domain name in 2006, well
after the name was chosen and development started). Why did we choose that name? Well, in 2003 we wrote DotNetDating.
In 2005, we wrote DotNetInvoice. In 2006, we started development on DotNetHostingPanel. Recently, the guys over at
DotNetPanel decided to start incorrectly plastering all over
the Internet that we "stole" their name. So, we decided to go ahead and change the name to WindowsPanel. We feel our
product is far superior and have no need to "steal" anyone's name. We are so confident that our product is the best
available Windows control panel, we give you all of the source code! No joke! You get everything. And, you get
an unlimited license. Use it on as many servers and host as many domains as you like.
Our goal at asp.netSoftware is to provide
simple and flexible applications, with 100% of the source, to other developers.