Needless to say, I received many comments and emails from the post this morning about comparing the performance between ColdFusion and .NET when resizing an image. Some folks had wondered if using the ImageResize function instead of the CFIMAGE tag would speed up the ColdFusion numbers. So I decided to test that theory out in [...]
I received a comment from a reader named Daniel yesterday asking if I knew the performance difference in ColdFusion and .NET when resizing an image. I did not know the answer, so I decided to spend a few minutes and run some tests. I ran the code on the same server and used the exact [...]
Our next little topic in the series comparing ColdFusion and .NET will cover the simple task of uploading a file via FTP. This task is fairly easy in both languages as you will see below. We will look at the ColdFusion code first. ColdFusion includes the handy CFFTP tag to handle all of our FTP [...]
Today’s post in our series comparing ColdFusion and .NET covers the topic of parsing XML. If you are a developer you do this quite often. For this example I am parsing a feed that returns Xbox Live information for a user. Microsoft does not officially provide this feed, but I came across a little web [...]
A reader who read the earlier post titled ColdFusion & .NET: Send an Email, asked a couple of questions on sending the email in .NET. He was asking how you send an HTML email and secondly, add an attachment. So I put together a quick sample of doing this. I have also included the full [...]
Today's post in the ColdFusion & .NET series covers a fairly simple task: sending an email. This is very easy to do in both languages. The examples below show you how to send a text based email in each language. In ColdFusion you use the CFMAIL tag to send off an email. In the example [...]
After last week's post on resizing images in ColdFusion and .NET based on width, someone contacted me and asked me about resizing the image based on height. So below is how you accomplish that in ColdFusion and in .NET. First in ColdFusion: The .NET function is very similar to the function we covered last week [...]
This is my first post comparing some functionality and code between ColdFusion and .NET. For all of posts in this series I am running ColdFusion 8 Enterprise and the 3.5 .NET Framework. All of the sample code I will be showing for .NET is written in C#. Sorry if you were looking for VB examples! [...]
Just wanted to let everyone know I will be starting a series of weekly posts on comparing ColdFusion and ASP.NET. Comparing may not be the best word for it, as I will be showing code snippets in Coldusion and then showing code in ASP.NET that accomplishes the same task. I am by no means an [...]