Living in Code

Ramblings from a code monkey

Resources

These are just a few resources that I felt were worth sharing.  These are all tools I am using or have used and that have made my life easier!

Software/Tools 

  • BlogEngine.net - An innovative open source blogging platform developed with ASP.NET 2.0 (this site's blog engine)
  • Codeplex - Open source project hosting website with lots of great .NET projects
  • .netTiers - Open source code generation templates that simplify the tasks of creating customized Application Tiers for your Microsoft.Net applications in just a few minutes
  • ASP.NET Web Profile Generator - The ASP.NET WebProfile Generator is an add-in for Visual Studio 2005. The add-in is used to generate a strongly typed proxy class for accessing the ASP.NET profile in a ASP.NET Web Application Project
  • CruiseControl.NET - an Automated Continuous Integration server, implemented using the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • FxCop - a code analysis tool that checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to the Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines
  • NUnit - a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages
  • RadControls for ASP.NET - excellent UI and data controls for ASP.NET
  • Microsoft Enterprise Library - a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges

Articles

  • Dynamically loading an IBindableTemplate - In ASP.NET 1.x, when using a templated control, we have a choice between specifying these templates inline, or loading them dynamically using the LoadTemplate method. In ASP.NET 2.0 this obviously still applies, but there's a caveat - if you want to take advantage of the new two-way binding features in controls such as the new FormView control, you can only specify the templates inline.  This article provides a workaround for the problem in ASP.NET 2.0.