Open source .NET blogging platform with nice set of features is available for download here
BlogEngine.NET Documentation Wiki
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The nice tool called Snoop that I found useful while developing and debugging WPF Applications.
Features
A dynamic mock object framework for the .Net platform. It's purpose is to ease testing by allowing the developer to create mock implementations of custom objects and verify the interactions using unit testing.
Rhino.Mocks is an attempt to create easier way to build and use mock objects and allow better refactoring support from the current tools. It's a hybrid approach between the pure Record/Replay of EasyMock.Net's model and NMock's expectation based model. Rhino.Mocks originated from EasyMock.Net and attempt to improve on their model to create easy to use and power mocking framework. It's free for use and modification for open source and commercial software.
Licensing: Rhino Mocks is Free Software which is released under the BSD license.
New features:
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Argotic is a collection of Microsoft.NET class libraries that implement common web content syndication specifications such as RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0. With the Argotic components, consuming syndication feeds or generating your own custom feeds has never been easier. Argotic has been designed to provide developers with a flexible provider model for storing and retrieving syndication feed information to and from the back-end database of their choice. Argotic also provides an extensible framework that allows developers to easily handle the large number of extensions in use by today's syndication specifications.
Features Overview
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Use Editor Attribute
[DisplayName("Resume")]
[Description("Resume File Name")]
[Editor(typeof(DocFileEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
public string ResumeFile
{
get
{
return _ResumeFile;
}
set
{
_ResumeFile = value;
}
}
Override InitializeDialog method and provide Filter string that describes allowed file extensions
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Forms.Design;
namespace WindowsApplication1
{
class DocFileEditor : FileNameEditor
{
///<summary>
///Initializes the open file dialog when it is created.
///</summary>
///
///<param name="openFileDialog">The <see cref="T:System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog">
</see> to use to select a file name. </param>
protected override void InitializeDialog(OpenFileDialog openFileDialog)
{
openFileDialog.CheckFileExists = false;
openFileDialog.Filter = "Doc files (*.doc)|*.doc|All files (*.*)|*.*";
}
}
}
Use ReadOnly attribute or remove set accessor ...
[ReadOnly(true)]
public int Age
{
get
{
return _Age;
}
set
{
_Age = value;
}
}
Use Category attribute .Note that properties without the attribute will be shown uder category named "Misc"
[DisplayName("First Name")]
[Description("First Name of the person")]
[Category("Personality")]
public string FirstName
{
get
{
return _FirstName;
}
set
{
_FirstName = value;
}
}
[Category("Specific")]
public Color HairColor
{
get
{
return _HairColor;
}
set
{
_HairColor = value;
}
}
Use Description attribute
[DisplayName("First Name")]
[Description("First Name of the person")]
public string FirstName
{
get
{
return _FirstName;
}
set
{
_FirstName = value;
}
}
To display property name in readable form you can use DisplayName attribute
[DisplayName("First Name")]
public string FirstName
{
get
{
return _FirstName;
}
set
{
_FirstName = value;
}
}
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 delivers a rich client-side AJAX library that provides cross platform, cross browser support for a core JavaScript type-system, JSON-based network serialization stack, JavaScript component/control model, as well as common client JavaScript helper classes. ASP.NET AJAX also delivers a rich server-side library that integrates AJAX functionality within ASP.NET, and enables developers to easily AJAX-enable existing ASP.NET 2.0 sites with minimal effort.
The MSN Search SDK provides documentation that describes the core concepts, requirements, development guidelines, and class library for the MSN Search Web Service. The SDK also contains sample code that demonstrates application development techniques using the MSN Search Web Service.
ReSharper UnitRun is a free add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 that allows you to automatically run and profile unit tests. This user-friendly tool detects test fixtures of the supported unit testing frameworks and lets you run or profile them right from the code editor or from Visual Studio's Solution Explorer.
A dedicated window is provided to analyze test results, run or rerun any tests, and navigate from a failed test's output directly to the code line that originated the exception. Results are displayed in the Unit Test Tree View, which contains an overview of all tests in the build together with colored icons to indicate the state of each test. From this view you can start running, debugging or profiling tests.
Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements are a set of Visual Studio extensions that are designed to make you more productive. These enhancements are directly integrated into the Visual Studio IDE. Previously, these enhancements were only available via the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. This installation does not require Visual Studio 2005 SDK.
Source Code Outliner : The Source Outliner tool is a Visual Studio extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them inside the editor.
Visual C++ Code Snippets:The Visual C++ Code Snippets tool lets you insert snippets in your code by using a pop-up menu that contains programming keywords. VB.NET and C# languages have this functionality in Visual Studio 2005.
Indexed Find : The Indexed Find tool is a Visual Studio extension that uses the Microsoft Indexing Service to provide improved Search capabilities to the integrated development environment (IDE). It sends the results of a search to the Output Window.
Super Diff Utility: The Super Diff Find tool is a Visual Studio extension that compares text files. It uses color coding and graphics to show the difference between the files in deleted text (red), changed text (blue), inserted text (green).
Event Toaster Utility: The Event Toaster tool is a Visual Studio extension that notifies users about specific events within the Visual Studio IDE.
"Foxit Reader 2.0 is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 1.5 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Foxit Reader 2.0 supports Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.6."
New Features
JetBrains has released their integrated team environment.
TeamCity provides intelligent, automated running and monitoring of build processes, and facilitates integration of changes for developers working on both .Net and Java platforms.
Top features include:
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"The DHTML Editing Control will not be included in Windows Vista. Web pages and Windows applications that use the control must be modified to continue to provide a WYSIWYG HTML Editor."
To read more about this, check out the MSDN article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/htmleditinfuture.asp
The Web Client Software Factory is a guidance offering currently under development that will provide comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build web solutions using the Microsoft platform (ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Workflow Foundation, etc).
The factory will include:
This article will introduce you to a server side validation library. The objectives of the library are to:
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XML Notepad 2006 provides a simple intuitive User Interface for browsing and editing XML documents.
Features:
