Software and version history

The database behind the website was originally on FileMaker Pro, moved to MS Access, moved again to MS SQL Server. The greater complexity of SQL Server has made the task more difficult, but it has allowed the addition of more complex programming that does a better job of detecting and preventing user errors in updating the data.

Programming for the Orthoptera Species File was initially done with MS Visual Interdev. The web pages are published using HTML 4. The Active Server Pages (ASP) use Visual Basic Script. Client side programming is done using JavaScript. Web pages can be viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 4 and higher, or Netscape Navigator, version 4 and higher. Current work is done using Visual Studio.NET. The conversion from ASP to ASP.NET and from Visual Basic Script to Visual Basic.NET was completed in November 2003.