ASP.NET WebForm anyone?

[aeric]

I developed a few ASP .NET web apps in the past for my former companies. I uploaded the demos in one of my shared hosting. Every year I spent renewal fee to keep this demo website active in case I have potential customers looking for such products or similar. That time I tried to use very minimal resources to develop these web apps. I think one or two of the apps are still in production who knows I been long time not contact my previous companies.

Recently, or as always annually, the hosting provider execute server migration and my site has broken. I spent some time to troubleshoot and make it work again.

Now, I am thinking to abandon the demo site and give up the web apps. I don’t know the source code still worth any value as most of them are using .NET framework 2.0 or 4.0 and MS Access or MySQL database. I also have versions working with SQLExpress.

Question: Should I just keep them or make them open source ?

ASP.NET framework web apps have the same fate as VB6. They end up as dinosaur with no values.

If anyone want to check my demo site, here it is:

Computerise System Solutions

The main domain ( https://www.computerise-app.com/ ) is just for display.

 

[JohnC]

I still have a few clients that I maintain ASP.NET apps for them.

Development of ASP.NET websites seem to still be active (and also MVC using ASP.NET):

Programming ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) Using Visual Studio

This appendix explains how you can use Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer 2010 Express to program ASP.NET Web Pages with the Razor syntax.

learn.microsoft.com

 

[aeric]

I still have a few clients that I maintain ASP.NET apps for them.

Development of ASP.NET websites seem to still be active (and also MVC using ASP.NET):

Programming ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) Using Visual Studio

This appendix explains how you can use Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer 2010 Express to program ASP.NET Web Pages with the Razor syntax.

learn.microsoft.com

MVC and Razor template are newer technologies than webform. They survive as they continue useful in ASP Net Core.
Just my guesses as I have long time not work with ASP.NET

 

[aeric]

Due to cost saving, I will discontinue the demo website when it expires next month. I will consider to open source the source code of the projects.

 

[JohnC]

The good thing about open sourcing your code is that you will not only be helping others, but you no longer have to keep fixing the code everytime your host vendor keeps migrating their servers.

 

[aeric]

I am thinking that the projects are no longer valuable for commercial use.
The general public or at least I can say majority companies in my country won't/don't think my projects are useful.
Who will still use .NET Framework 2.0 in 2023? Who will use MS Access or SQL Express as backend in on-premise environment in 2023?
People talk about docker or container in cloud servers.
People use shining JavaScript frameworks.
WebForms? People will give me a big laugh.
The reason I want to open source them is for education purpose, similar to why I open source my old VB6 projects.
Maybe it helps one or 2 students in another part of the world.