IT.Wox, always

Ladies & Gentlemen, presenting my first open-source application called WebsiteManager - finally released & ready for you good folks to use!

This version (v1.0) provides a UI to manage the ASP.Net Memberships & roles via a web application using ASP.Net MVC 3.5 (although you could use it on ASP.Net MVC 2.0 also)

I have a couple of useful ideas which I plan to implement in this application during the course of the new few releases.

So hang tight :)

Please feel free to download the latest bits from CodePlex, use it as you see fit.

I would truly appreciate some feedback on this effort & open to any new ideas you would like to see put into the future releases.

Again - CodePlex is the place for all this information. Have fun!

I finally got the chance to start working on ASP.Net MVC with jQuery & Linq.

My last project was based on the now "old" .Net 2.0  & we went with a complete MS technology stack including their version of AJAX. Adding third party controls to the mix didnot help & only added to the overall complexity of the system. 

MS Ajax - is surely past its sell by date.

When this library was first put out, I was truly excited & hoped it would be all it promised to be. For sometime, I really enjoyed it. But then once I got jQuery-ed, its bye-bye Ms. Ajax. Inspite of all her glitz & glamour, I lost my heart to the pure simplicity of jQuery. 

I have never been a big believer of third party controls - regardless of the claims of the component supporters.

True they save you a load of upfront effort & look cool. Unfortunately, in my experience, the project starts degrading in performance, maintainability & testability the minute a third party control starts appearing in your codebase.

Needless to say, after all that - MVC, jQuery & Linq - utopia!!!

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) is a free, easy-to-use graphical management tool for managing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services. SSMSE can also manage instances of the SQL Server Database Engine created by any edition of SQL Server 2005 - MSDN

Run along now - grab it! 

Have you ever tried to put in code snippets into your blog?

Well, using this tool: http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/ you will be able to format code for c#, VB, HTML/XML/ASPX, t-sql & msh. Although this is a nice to have feature in BlogEngine.NET, I would imagine it would come about in a later release.

For the time, I will use the formatter to get the HTML needed & paste the output in my blog for professional-looking code snippets. Let me know if you know of such useful tools which help in yor day-to-day work.