A Precarious Balance

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• First production use of payment gateway

  I've been putting the payment gateway portion of the Paid Subscriber add on through various tests. Running it over and over in a test environment is helpful, but there's nothing like the real thing. Yesterday I finished putting together a proposal Read More... Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:15 PM by Sean Winstead | 4 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Integrating Community Server with PayPal

  It's been a while since I wrote about the Paid Subscriber project. That's because I did enough talking and needed to get something done. Well...part of it is done! There's now a somewhat generic payment engine that plugs into Community Server and integrates Read More... Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:30 PM by Sean Winstead | 4 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber, PayPal

• Subscriber Part 7: Custom maintenance screen

  I've been on a short break writing about the Paid Subscriber project; the bread and butter project needs a good dose of attention as I near the finish line on some infrastructure changes. We've recently talked about how to store settings for a PayPal Read More... Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:30 AM by Sean Winstead | 2 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 6: Adding language resources

  DISCLAIMER: This is definitely not a "I'm an expert on this topic" post. This is more of a "I'm ignorant and this is the best way I can come up with" post. So if you know of a better way, please fill me in via the comments. It would be wonderful if communities Read More... Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 10:30 PM by Sean Winstead | 2 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber status

  Here and there, I like to stop, see where I've been, and figure out where I'm going. For this project, a Paid Subscriber Add-On for Community Server, we have some interfaces describing a gateway to a payment processor , the community-specific settings Read More... Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 9:45 PM by Sean Winstead | 1 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 5: Writing a custom data provider

  Have you ever been intrigued by how many ways there are to map data from your application into a relational database? Options range from embedding your SQL and business logic into a web page to using a comprehensive architecture like Lhotka's CSLA.NET Read More... Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 9:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 5 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 4: Payment gateways

  We established earlier that we want to use PayPal for transactions but leave ourselves room for adding other payment gateways. We need something in between our application code and the PayPal SDK, so that we're not locked in. And we don't want to over-engineer. Read More... Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 8:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 3 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 3: Multi site support

  The questions from the previous post give us a few challenges. In the long run, we need to provide access to multiple payment gateways and let you configure the payment-related settings per community. We also need a way to store those settings. Let's Read More... Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:30 AM by Sean Winstead | 4 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 2: Initial flurry of questions

  You always have to begin somewhere. For this project, we're going to begin with the requirement where you accept payment for a subscription through PayPal. Sounds easy enough, doesn't it? I'll use the PayPal's SDK for ASP.NET so we have an interface into Read More... Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:15 AM by Sean Winstead | 3 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 1: Basic requirements

  Following are some basic requirements for a subscriber add-on to Community Server, as introduced here . Note that this release is purposefully limited in scope. The goal is to get it done and then expand it later. A person will be able to view specific Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:30 PM by Sean Winstead | 2 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Writing an add-on for Community Server

  Do you love new challenges? I do too and very much so. Jerilyn's website gave me a taste of what Community Server (CS) can do and it's turning out to be a fun platform to explore. After some deliberation, I've decided to write a small add-on for CS so Read More... Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 10:45 PM by Sean Winstead | 4 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber