This repository is an historical record of work done for VASST, which sold video software plugins, ran video contests, and hosted a catalog of downloadable video recipes and templates that users could contribute to, rate and comment on.
- Created: 2002
- Platform: ASP upgraded to VB.Net
The links below are to source files.
- Built an open-ended retail promotional system with interfaces and base classes to allow arbitrary combinations of criteria and rewards (since the client kept dreaming up new ones). Criteria included things like sign-up date, particular item in cart and cart total over threshold.
- Built suite of custom HTML controls (and setup IntelliSense for them) that used reflection to read the criteria and other classes to generate friendly, easily managed forms.
- In order to support arbitrary criteria and rewards, built a custom binary serialization solution that could handle deserializing old versions of objects to instances having new fields (NoSQL solutions didn't exist yet).
- Used graphics libraries to programatically enhance images and draw assets, like ratings stars, on-the-fly (no usable
SVGorcanvasat the time).