Matssoft ObjectMapper and NPersist has moved to www.puzzleframework.com (Puzzle.NET). Puzzle.NET is a free, open source collection of tools and frameworks for Agile, Domain Driven Design and Development written by Roger Johansson and Mats Helander.

Puzzle.NET currently consists of the following 5 frameworks:

NPersist – Object/Relational Mapping
NAspect – Aspect Oriented Programming
NFactory – Dependency Injection
NPath – In-Memory Object Querying
NCore – Compression, Parsing, etc (core functionality reused by the other frameworks)

In addition, Puzzle.NET currently contains the following 3 tools:

ObjectMapper – GUI Editor for Persistent Domain Models
DomainExplorer – Persistent Domain Model Object Browser
QueryAnalyzer – NPath Test Bench

Read Mats' post on this release.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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