Development tools

Silver have a nifty C# snippet compiler. There are .NET 3.5, .NET 2.0 and .NET 1.1 versions. Handy for those times when you want to compile and test something quickly.

Silverlight 1.0 is a cut down version of XAML that Microsoft created for cross platform development and is where WPF/E (E is for Everywhere) came from. It is billed as the Microsoft's answer to Flash and runs via a plug-in.

XBAP only runs on Windows with .NET 3.0 runtime installed and currently is supported in IE and Firefox. It runs within a sandbox inside a browser.

Hence XBAP has better features, but less widespread support compared to Silverlight 1.0. This means XBAP is a good choice for intranet applications and user interfaces that are controlled. If you can get away with Silverlight 1.0's cut down XAML feature set, then this will give a wider audience and is probably a better choice for general Internet applications at the moment.

MyEclipse provides some useful documentation and tutorials here. These are a good introduction to the MyEclipse features and how to use them. Some of the tutorials even have videos to show you how to do it.

There is a plug-in for Netbeans that provides Facelets support at Netbean Facelets. The current version only works with Netbeans 5.5 and supports and older version of Facelets. MyEclipse has a more recent version in their Facelets support.

I had some questions about what XAML is.

A lot of these are free tools (unless noted) that I tend to download and install on a PC when I am going to be doing some programming.

Text Searching/Replacing

• GrepOne of the most useful of the Unix commands. Here is a stand-alone version of grep for Windows that can search subdirectories.
• WinMerge - WinMerge is very much like that terrible, but terribly useful WinDiff that came from Microsoft.
• Recursive Replace - Useful for replacing text in files down recursive directories.

Text Editor - For when Notepad is not cutting it

• Posted On: March 26, 2007 - 2:16pm by Rational
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Here are some changes made in .NET 2.0

• ASP.NET Master Pages providing a single point for the core of your page design.
• A new approach for handling transactions.
Posted On: March 11, 2007 - 4:17am by Rational
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Voo2do is a free service that gives you a project management tool online.

.NET 3.0 uses the same compiler as .NET 2.0 and is a superset of .NET 2.0. There are four main sets of new classes (formerly known as WinFX during development).

• Posted On: March 9, 2007 - 8:21am by Rational
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Setting up Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl is not an easy task for those who have never done it before. This is a common, cheap (free) and efficient development environments for many reasons.