Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Important points that programmers should remember while developing web application software

I have tried to find out some points that every programmer should remember while coding in web application:
1. Do R&D about business logic and make a plan how you will implement it before you start writing code.
2. Should write code easy, understandable and maintainable way.
3. Make sure you are developing application wide consistent look and feel.
4. Should think in OOP way. 
5. Try best practices that are established in the industry.
6. Maintain Naming convention
7. Transaction should be used properly and where necessary.
8. Remember concurrency issue while coding. 
9. Validation should be checked properly. Validation should be done at client side so far possible.
10. User or role based permission should be implemented properly so that user can’t do anything if not permitted.
11. Should do comments where necessary.
12. Should be aware about security of application and database.
13. Write less code to do more jobs. Do re-factor where possible.
14.  Think about performance of your code.
15. Make use of client side Ajax.
16. Be aware of hacking options like Sql Injection, Cross Site Scripting etc.
17. Should do paging on database end where data is more than 20 in grid.
18. Do less use of Session and ViewState.
19. Do caching where possible.
20. Always check existence of an object before accessing it.
21. Be careful about exception handling.
22. Write error log to identify errors.
23. Make sure you dispose large objects.
24. Grid should have a SL column.
25. Dropdown or combo values should be in a specific order.
26. Remove unnecessary code and comments from your page.
27. Set a title in each page. Don’t keep it like Untitled Page.
28. Include search option when data is more than 100 records in a page.
29. Use Namespace properly for pages and code files.
30. Show short and friendly error message to user but log error details.
31. Do not have more than one class in a single class.
32. Please write copy right and author information at the top of each file.
33. Avoid unnecessary round trip to database server. Use batch SQL statement to reduce round trip.
34. Use light weight controls. Choose controls carefully for your page.
35. Make your database normalized.
36. Make sure optimization of your queries.
37. Always deploy release build of your application.
38. Use release build and minimized version of any third party controls used.
39. Deploy your application on staging first and do all testing in staging.
40. Before deployment in production make sure necessary configuration and changes are done properly if needed. For example setting up new encryption key, encrypting sensitive information and setup application settings information etc. 
41. Develop a way to notify users with friendly message while doing some changes or maintenance task after deployment.
42. Make sure to check all major functionality is working properly after deployment.

2 comments:

  1. sir,

    convert amount to india rupee format in grid view vs 2010

    for example. if i pass 9123456789.00 it should be 9,12,34,56,789.00 whats the format string

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  2. Try this:

    DataFormatString="{0:##,###.##}"

    ReplyDelete