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WPF: Ribbon in Prism Applications

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:38:38 GMT

Microsoft some time ago published its Ribbon(known from Office 2007) control library for Windows Presentation Foundation. This article contains steps necessary to implement ribbon view region in Composite Application Library(aka Prism) .

AlphaVSS 0.7.0 - Bringing the Volume Shadow Copy Service to .NET

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:32:45 GMT

AlphaVSS is an open source library that provides a managed .NET interface to the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service, making it possible to conveniently access and use the VSS API from within eg. C# or VB.

.NET Utility Libraries Galore

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:23:09 GMT

Yesterday Karl Seguin announced a new .NET Extension Library. One of the really interesting pieces of the library is a streamlined approach to a simple dictionary imagecache, which is similar to the one described in another interesting looking utility library called ShadeTree. Recently, Ayende Rahein reviewed another .NET utility library called Umbrella, which looks like a pretty wide and deep set of utilities. As I am about to create a new solution to consolidate the utility functionality we use across our various projects, it got me thinking it might be time to pick an established (or growing) library from the community and try to contribute any missing pieces we need for our own projects.

DnSmtp - A .NET SMTP Client Library in C#

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:29:36 GMT

DnSmtp is a fully management SMTP client library written in C#. It provides two delivery methods - Relay and Direct. In relay delivery mode, it will relay messages through your local SMTP server. In direct delivery mode or it will resolve the MX record of the recipient's email address and connect to the recipients server directly and drop the mail message.

CAKE3 - Free archiving library

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:31:42 GMT

Cake3 library supports compressing and extracting files to/from different archive formats .The library can be easily integrated to your projects .

Subkismet 1.0 Released

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:46:02 GMT

Subkismet is a set of tools as a framework to fight against spam in .NET applications. Keyvan announces the first public release of this open source framework.

Coding4Fun Developer Kit

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:16:02 GMT

A collection of tools which have been developed to abstract the complexity of doing software development using common Windows Vista APIs. The kit features include drag 'n drop controls and components, SmartTags, Visual Basic and Visual C# source code for all tools and samples as well as complete QuickStarts and APIs documentation.

Open source .NET libraries you should be already using

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:46:03 GMT

As we know, there are many good, enterprise level, open source libraries, frameworks and projects implemented in Java. Most of them are being ported into different platforms like .NET and PHP, so developers are migrating to the these platforms with their familiar tools. For example, i have been using Ant, JUnit, Log4J, iText and many mores when i was developing in Java, but now i am still using Log4Net and Nunit in my current

FileHelpers 2.0 Released

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:01:01 GMT

A big step in the library roadmap. A lot of performance enhaces (more than 65% in .NET 2.0) and new features, with a pulished API. The FileHelpers are and open source library with this simple idea: "Strong type your flat file (fixed or delimited) simply describing a class that maps to each record and later read/write your file as an strong typed .NET array"

Review: Framework Design Guidelines

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:00:38 GMT

In this article Keyvan reviews Framework Design Guidelines, which was a popular .NET book published in 2005 by Addison-Wesley. Its primary focus is on giving several guidelines and tips to design powerful frameworks or rich libraries using .NET.

Programmatically adding triggers to the Atlas UpdatePanel

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:10:29 GMT

This article discusses how to programmatically add triggers to the Atlas UpdatePanel.

XML log file with Enterprise Library

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:01:02 GMT

Write to an XML log file using the Enterprise Library, and transform the log file using XSLT for display in a web browser.

A must-have ASP.NET Controls pack

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:31:02 GMT

A very useful collection of ASP.NET controls that I'm using on a daily basis. The collection includes controls such as an ImageCheckBox and an ObjectDataSource. A must have :-)

Sumatra PDF Viewer for .NET?

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:31:01 GMT

There's a new version of Sumatra, Krzysztof Kowalczyk's open source PDF Viewer for Windows. It's an incredible accomplishment, and a great example of the value of open source software.