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The Daily Grind 1097

by Mike Gunderloy
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Rush work is the bane of my existence.

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Smart PropertyGrid for .Net

SPG.Net is a Windows Forms component aimed at developers concerned by the shortcomings of the Microsoft PropertyGrid which is a very useful tool... but only in Visual Studio. To provide your end-users with the right experience, you put a lot of efforts in designing a desktop application with a rich and convenient GUI, so why not add a PropertyGrid that will adapt itself to your liking and do it effort free? SPG.Net is highly customizable, flexible and robust. Read on for its main features:

PropertyGrid inplace controls
Custom propertygrid
  • Completely dynamic content at run-time or reflection,
  • Infinite number of nested categories and properties,
  • Many built-in inplace editors,
  • Customization of properties and global appearance,
  • Different enumerator types to browse properties,
  • Optional navigation with the TAB key,
  • Custom property value validation,
  • Knows all related framework classes like TypeConverters, UITypeEditors, ...
  • Custom sorting,
  • Hyperlinked properties,
  • And a lot more...
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Introducing Xceed Grid for .NET, trusted and used by Microsoft in the latest version of Office. Designed to efficiently solve all your data grid needs, it also provides built-in reporting and cell editors usable outside the grid.
 
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Presenting Xceed Zip for .NET, the only multi-talented compression component. Use it to easily handle files, folders and data anywhere: in Zip, Tar and GZip files, on FTP servers, in streams, in memory, and more.

Genome 3.1 for .NET 2.0 now available: ORM geared for Vista and LINQ

Packed with improved performance and mapping features, this release of the object-relational mapping framework Genome once again keeps pace with the newest:

  • Get a head start on using LINQ: decompose and reuse your LINQ expressions
  • Switch your projects to LINQ seamlessly whenever you and LINQ are ready for it
  • Geared for Windows Vista and Visual Studio SP1
  • Now also supports the new SQL Server Compact Edition

Genome's full documentationcan be browsed online, while the free evaluation version, demo videos, white papers and samples can be downloaded at www.genom-e.com.

C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines - free ebook download

 

.NET Coding Guidelines is a 100+ page ebook (PDF) on naming conventions, best coding practices and patterns written by the industry expert Steven Sartain and delivered to you for Free by SubMain.

  • Naming Guidelines
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  • Guidelines for Exposing Functionality to COM
  • Error Raising & Handling Guidelines
  • Array Usage Guidelines
  • Operator Overloading Usage Guidelines
  • Guidelines for Casting Types
  • Common Design Patterns
  • Callback Function Usage
  • Time-Out Usage
  • Security in Class Libraries
  • Threading Design Guidelines
  • Formatting Standards
  • Commenting Code
  • Code Reviews
  • Additional Notes for VB .NET Developers
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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.

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