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A good article on styling forms using CSS can be found at aplus . A pity that not all browsers are not as good at CSS as they could be, if they were you could design forms without using tables.

Excentrics World has a lot of free .NET Custom Controls for use on your ASP.NET pages. They are as follows: Accordion Panel Bread Crumb Trail Calendar Popup Collapsable Panel Empty DataGrid Faq Repeater Masked Textbox Multi-Text List Controls Numeric Box Ordered Listbox Time Picker The source code is available for purchase (as download does not contain it). Developing ASP.NET Server Controls on MSDN is a good article on creating custom controls.

The Regulator is a tool for regular expressions. It integrates with RegExLib.com (regular expression library), by offering the ability to search it and submit your own regular expressions. You can also compile it to a .NET assembly or generate VB.NET/C# code so you can use throughout multiple projects.

Edit (25-Mar-2005): Newer version here: Url Manipulation v2 (C#) . This class enables you to manipulate and get the QueryString of a page. It also returns the current page's AbsoluteUri (i.e. /path/to/myfile.aspx?param=test), base Url (i.e. /path/to/myfile.aspx) and virtual folder (i.e. /path/to/) Use: UrlQuery MyQuery; private void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { MyQuery = new UrlQuery("/path/to/myfile.aspx?param=test"); // or to get the current page use: // MyQuery = new UrlQuery() Trace.Write(MyQuery.Url); // returns '/path/to/file.aspx' Trace.Write(MyQuery.VirtualFolder); // returns '/path/to/' Trace.Write(MyQuery.Get()); // returns '?param=test' // change query MyQuery.Set("param2","value2"); Trace.Write(MyQuery.Get()); // returns '?param=test&param2=value2' // remove 'param' paramater MyQuery.Set("param",null); Trace.Write(MyQuery.Get("param2")); // returns ...

A new build of programmers notepad is available - PN2 version 0.5.5 (herbie). Looks quite good and can only get better. Quite a few changes and bug fixes since 0.5 (the last development release) - including 'magic folders' within a project (a magic folder lists the files/folders contained within a directory on your computer). Read the release notes , or download from SourceForge . I'm sure PN2 will be very good when the stable build is released.

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These fonts are quite good for when you work with source code and want a nice readable font: Raize ProFont / Sheldon

MyGeneration now has a new template library where you can add your own templates. Hopefully there will be many quality templates put on the site. Several of my templates have gone on (user sbc).