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WPF Localization Extension

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:53:10 GMT

Localization solution for WPF.

Features include:
- supports binding-like write style, such as Text="{LocText ResAssembly:ResFile:ResKey}"
- based on .resx resource files
- works with the .resx-fallback mechanism (e.g. en-us -> en -> independent culture)
- supports culture forcing (e.g. "this has to be english all the time")
- works with dependency properties and non-dependency properties
- works with control templates
- offers DesignValue to support custom values during design mode
- can be used in xaml without any additional namespace
- can be used in code behind to bind localized values to dynamic generated controls
- implements INotifyPropertyChanged
- supports string formating
- supports prefix and suffix values
- supports language switching at run-time
- built-in support for Text, upper Text, lower Text, Images, Brushes, Double, Thickness and Flow direction

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Localization

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HTMLItemComboBox

Sat, 16 May 2009 17:19:54 GMT

ASP.NET control similar to ASP.NET's ComboBox but only having to define the items as text
In the HTMLItemComboBox you can use any HTML item as input. That means for example you could define a ComboBox of images, italic words and any other HTML
items you wish. Therefore you can have a ComboBox that contains different type of items.

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Web controls

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ListTransfer

Sat, 16 May 2009 17:18:38 GMT

ASP.NET server control used for transferring items from one ListBox to another or moving items up and down in one ListBox.
By using ListTransfer we could categorize data into different groups according to their criteria. We could move all the items at once into another ListBox or select specific items for transferring.

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Web controls

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TimePicker

Sat, 16 May 2009 17:15:16 GMT

ASP.NET server control for showing time in specific ways.

Features include:
- Consists of three main DropDownList for showing hour, minute and second
- As default it shows the current time
- Choice of showing time with AM/PM mode or by 24 hour mode
- DropDownList for selecting AM or PM
- Possible to hide the second part of the TimePicker
- Define intervals for minutes and seconds

Categories:

Web controls

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PureObjects

Sat, 16 May 2009 16:56:09 GMT

Free web based code generator that builds several major portions of a .NET application including the database access layer, stored procedures, business, and model layers for C# and VB.NET.

PureObjects generates the following:
- C#/VB.NET Model Object Class code
- C#/VB.NET Data Layer code
- SQL table create script
- SQL CRUD stored procedures scripts

Categories:

Code generation

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Stubs

Sat, 16 May 2009 12:47:05 GMT

Lightweight stub framework solely based on delegates, type safe, refactorable and fully source code generated.
Stubs was designed to support the Code Contracts runtime writter and provide a minimal overhead to the Pex white box analysis.

Features include:
- Delegate based
- Source code generated: No dynamic code, no Reflection Emit, no expression trees, just good old plain C#
- Type safe: No magic strings, all stubs are type safe and refactorable
- Lightweight: With the stubs, the overhead of calling a stubbed method is one virtual call
- Debugging support: You can step through, in and out of stubbed members
- Pex and Code Contracts friendly
- Non-sealed Classes and Virtual Methods
- Visual Studio integration

Categories:

Testing

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CryptoLicensing For .Net

Sat, 16 May 2009 12:39:15 GMT

Adds licensing, copy-protection and activation capabilities.

Features include:
- Support for hardware-locked and activated licenses
- Support for floating licenses
- Variety of licensing rules: Create cryptographic licenses for full versions of your software; Create evaluation or trial versions; Add online or manual activation and hardware locking; On-demand licenses; Subscription licenses; etc.
- Ready-to-use license server
- Support for evaluation licenses
- Support for Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET and console applications and libraries
- Support for Winforms, WPF and ASP.NET control and component licensing with separate design-time and run-time licenses
- Support for embedding any amount of additional user-data in the license
- CryptoLicensing Generator API

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Licensing

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Silverlight Toolkit

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:29:25 GMT

Collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle.
The Silverlight Toolkit adds new functionality for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. It includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 16 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.

Components: AutoCompleteBox, DockPanel, Expander, HeaderedContentControl, HeaderedItemsControl, Label, NumericUpDown, TreeView, Viewbox, WrapPanel, Accordion, Charting, DomainUpDown, ImplicitStyleManager, LayoutTransformer, TimePicker, TimeUpDown, TransitioningContentControl.
Also provides 11 themes.

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SVG - XAML - WPF - Silverlight

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ContractDriven.NET

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:30:09 GMT

Contract Driven Development library for .NET.

Features include:
- support for pre and post-condition checks (Require/Ensure pattern)
- support for Invariant checks
- mechanism to check your code for side-effects as it is run (tracking values)

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Miscellaneous

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Code Contracts

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:25:26 GMT

Provides a language-agnostic way to express coding assumptions in .NET programs.
The contracts take the form of preconditions, postconditions, and object invariants. Contracts act as checked documentation of your external and internal APIs. The contracts are used to improve testing via runtime checking, enable static contract verification, and documentation generation.
Code Contracts bring the advantages of design-by-contract (DbC) programming to all .NET programming languages.
Two tools are provided:
- Runtime Checking: a binary rewriter modifies a program by injecting the contracts, which are checked as part of program execution. Rewritten programs improve testability: each contract acts as an oracle, giving a test run a pass/fail indication. Automatic testing tools, such as Pex, take advantage of contracts to generate more meaningful unit tests by filtering out meaningless test arguments that don't satisfy the pre-conditions.
- Static Checking: a static checker can decide if there are any contract violations without running the program. It checks for implicit contracts, such as null dereferences and array bounds, as well as the explicit contracts.

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Miscellaneous

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Legion

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:01:15 GMT

Grid computing framework that uses the Silverlight CLR to execute user definable tasks.

Legion provides grid-wide thread-safe operations for web clients. Client performance metrics, such as bandwidth and processor speed, may be used to tailor jobs. Also includes a WPF Manager application.

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Grid computing

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Clog

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:54:23 GMT

Client logging system.

Clog is a customizable log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server using WCF or asmx Web Services.

Features include:
- customizable
- thread-safe
- can serialize and log all Exception types
- allows filtering of messages both on the client and server side using custom or inbuilt filters
- includes an extensible log provider system
- includes a log4net log strategy, a simple tracing log strategy, and a Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Application Block log strategy
- supports WPF and Silverlight 2

Categories:

Tracing - Logging - Monitoring

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Autofac

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:44:59 GMT

IoC container.

Features include:
- Create components with expressions: In addition to the reflection-based autowiring capabilities found in other .NET containers, Autofac can use expressions to create components
- Predictably manage eesources: The dynamic nature of applications built with dependency injection means that determining which components should be disposed of and when is much harder. Autofac takes on this burden by tracking instantiations and dependencies within a specified scope, so that a single Dispose() call can clean up everything that should be cleaned up and nothing more
- Components never need to reference Autofac
- Module system
- Autowiring: Even though you may use expressions to register many components, Autofac can choose constructors and build up instances for you if you need it
- XML configuration support
- Multiple services per component
- No implementation type dependencies: After registration, Autofac needs no knowledge of implementation types so you can vary them however you like - even on a call-by-call basis.

Categories:

Inversion of Control

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findinsite-ms

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:47:12 GMT

ASP.NET search engine for MS-hosted web sites.

Features include:
- ASP.NET web application for IIS servers
- Customisable to integrate with your site
- Doesn't show ads from your competitors
- Control panel for setup
- Schedule regular indexing runs to update the search databases
- Searches HTML, PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PUB, TXT, JPEG and TIFF files
- New Royal Mail UK postcode address file
- Search words highlighted in web pages
- Search API interface (XML web service)
- International support; User interface in 15 languages

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ASP.NET

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WPF PropertyGrid Control

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:40:51 GMT

WPF-based vision of the object property editor used in Visual Studio, Expression Blend and many IDE-oriented applications.

The purpose of this project is not to clone existing property editors but rather to introduce a control ready to be used in different types of applications.

Features include:
- 100% WPF component
- Same property editing approach introduced by Visual Studio 2008 WPF Designer ("Cider") and Expression Blend, same steps for creating inline and dialog based editors
- Built-in property editors and support for editors customization, injection
- Property grouping, sorting and filtering, property display schemas based on multiple rule sets
- Several display modes for properties (Native CLR properties, Dependency properties, All properties)
- Optional display of Attached or Read-only properties
- Category initial mode configuration (expanded or collapsed by default)
- Property metadata (DisplayNameAttribute, CategoryAttribute, DescriptionAttribute, etc) and ICustomTypeDescriptor support
- All property metadata is accessible from custom editors, MetadataStore support
- Property "Search Box" with live view updates, possibility to hide/show search box
- Basic support for Windows Forms interoperability, display of non-dependency objects, integration into Windows Forms application)

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WPF Controls

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