NDoc for .NET 2.0

Jonas Lagerblad has posted an improved .NET 2.0 port of NDoc 1.3.1 to generate decent output for the MSDN and MSDN2 documenters.  There is C# generics output support but Jonas did hint that there is still room for enhancement. Do check it out!

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Just Out: NUnit 2.2.3

NUnit team member Charlie Poole recently announced the release of NUnit 2.2.3 unit-testing framework.  With this release, NUnit can now be installed and run under .NET 2.0 and used in conjunction with Visual Studio 2005.

Read the release notes at:
http://nunit.com/testweb/index.php?p=releaseNotes&r=2.2.3

Download NUnit from:
http://nunit.sf.net/  (SourceForge)

Related:
To learn concepts and techniques on test-driven development for .NET, get this book:
Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET by James W. Newkirk and Alexei A. Vorontsov

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Featured ASP.NET 2.0 Site: EventMingle.com

Built entirely using the ASP.NET 2.0 platform and Visual Studio 2005, EventMingle.com is a social networking service covering the trade show/conference space.

Software developer, Scott Hunter wants to know what you think of this site. Check it out!

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Debug And Release Builds in ASP.NET 2.0

Some of you must have been wondering why is there only "Debug" build for web projects in Visual Studio 2005. Scott Allen has a nice post on how debug and release builds work in ASP.NET 2.0.  Points to take home are that VS 2005 knows nothing about compiling a web application and that the ASP.NET platform takes care of the compilation responsibility now.

Scott also described how the new Web Deployment Projects changes the build scenarios for VS 2005.

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Here Comes GridViewGirl.com!

DataGrid Girl Marcie Robillard makes a comeback...this time as GridView Girl! (GridViewGirl.com)

Back in the .NET 1.x days, Marcie rocked the .NET world with a distinctly pink-colored site focusing on the DataGrid.  The "upgrade" to GridViewGirl seems natural with the release of .NET 2.0.  Let's look forward to seeing fresh GridView resources from Marcie in her new site.

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Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 - November CTP now available!

Early last week, Tom Hollander announced the availability of November CTP of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0. Two notable ommissions in this release were highlighted; in particular, the configuration tool and the Cryptography Application Block.  A December final release is expected.

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URL Mapper with Regular Expressions Support in ASP.NET 2.0

One of the things that limits the usefulness of the built-in URL Mapping feature in ASP.NET 2.0 is the fact that it does not support regular expressions. Scott Guthrie tells why such support did not make it into this release.

Meanwhile, Christopher Pietschmann has posted a URL mapping solution which provides regex support for ASP.NET 2.0.

If you are looking for URL mapping/rewriting solutions for ASP.NET 1.1, see HOW TO: Rewrite URL.

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Steve Balmer Delivers Live Keynote at Microsoft Launch 2005 in Kuala Lumpur

It was San Francisco last week and now live in Kuala Lumpur!  Steve Balmer along with Prashant Shidharan (MS Group Product Manager) introduced Microsoft's next application platform comprising Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 at the Malaysian stop of the worldwide Launch 2005 event. 

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Commerce Starter Kit 1.01 released

Commerce Starter Kit 1.01 for ASP.NET 2.0 has been released.  This version fixes some localization issues found in the initial release.

From the home of Commerce Starter Kit site:

The Commerce Starter Kit (CSK) is a free, open source e-commerce storefront written specifically for ASP.NET 2.0. It features out-of-the-box product catalog and shopping cart functionality that allows website owners to setup, run, and maintain an online store with little or no costs, license fees, or limitations.

The Commerce Starter Kit was created by Wekeroad and sponsored by the PayPal Developer Network. The goal of the project is to continually improve the kit by attracting a community of developers that support its ongoing development through feedback and code contributions.

Get it at: CommerceStarterKit.org

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Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects Beta Preview available for Download

Visual Studio 2005 Web Development Projects (Beta Preview) is now available for download.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/default.aspx

This add-in tool provides additional functionality for building and deploying web applications created in ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Scott Guthrie has a nice writeup on this new tool.  Among the features highlighted are:

1. More control over the number of assemblies generated by a pre-compiled web project, and control over their naming.
2. Ability to utilize the full power of MSBuild to customize build processes.
3. Ability to define and use custom build-configurations inside VS, and define per-build configuration options.
4. Ability to customize and modify a web application's web.config file at deployment.

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