Regex Kit: Regular Expression Visualizers for Visual Studio 2005

Roy Osherove has released Regex Debug Visualizers for Visual Studio 2005.  This is really a nice addition to the built-in debug visualizers in VS 2005.

The regular expression visualizers support "visualizing" the following .NET types:

System.String
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match
System.Text.RegularExpressions.MatchCollection

Read Roy's post on this version 1 release and go download the kit!

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SQLite 3.0 Membership and Role Provider for ASP.NET 2.0

How about a simple, alternative database solution for your ASP.NET 2.0 site or application?  Well, there's SQLite! SQLite is light-weight, reasonably fast, easy to deploy (great for low-cost shared hosting scenarios), and costs nothing! 

What about ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Role Provider support?

Peter Bromberg has recently made available a VS 2005 web site folder containing a sample web.config, a sample provider.db SQLite database, the SQL script required to generate tables and indexes, and SQLiteMembershipProvider and SQLiteRoleProvider that can be dropped into the APP_CODE folder.

The download can be found in the following article:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20051119.asp

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Commerce Starter Kit 1.0.2 Released!

Version 1.0.2 of the Commerce Starter Kit was released today with the following updates:

• Added support for PaymentsStandard
• Fixed the LocationSelector so it properly shows saved country/state
• Further fixed localization
• Added a log viewer for the admin section
• Created an IPN/PDT handler for PaymentsStandard
• Added the API dlls to the web root
• Added the WSDLs for the PayPal API to the Commerce.PayPal project
• Fixed DirectCheckout error using foreign credit cards
  

Source: CommerceStarterKit.org

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New Book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference

Dino Esposito's latest book Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference is here! The 800-page book covers fundamentals of ASP.NET which include pages, controls, security, data binding, data source controls, caching, state management, intrinsics, a bit of internals, themes, profile, and ADO.NET.

Dino has revealed that he is currently writing the second volume of the book which will feature more advanced topics. Read his blog post here.

• Buy Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference (Paperback)

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FreeTextBox 3.1.1 Now Includes ASP.NET 2.0 Version

Creator of FreeTextBox (a popular ASP.NET HTML Editor), John Dyer has announced the release of FreeTextBox 3.1.1.  Besides bug fixes, native ASP.NET 2.0 version is now included.

• Download FreeTextBox 3.1.1
• Read Change Log

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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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