Codeplex is a great resource to find all kinds of things developer related. One of the things I found recently were a bunch of snippets for jQuery to make life easier for developers using Visual Studio 2010. You can download them here.

Grz, Kris.

Since WPF and especially Silverlight, since version 3 recently was released, have similarities it’s nice to have an overview of what both technologies have to offer and where Silverlight’s left out on certain things. I found such an overview on Codeplex: http://wpfslguidance.codeplex.com/.

Taken from the project description:

WPF and Silverlight are both XAML based platforms but there are some important functionality and implementation differences between the two. This project contains content illustrating these differences and the best practices for developing against these platforms.
Content posted to this project includes a whitepaper detailing what is similar and different between the two platforms as well as how to code against both platforms getting as much code reuse as possible.

Grz, Kris.

Just saw on Twitter that there’s a new version of the ASP.NET AJAX Control toolkit available on codeplex. There are 3 new controls available:

• HTMLEditor: The HTMLEditor control allows you to easily create and edit HTML content. You can edit in design mode, as a rich text editor, or in source view to edit the HTML markup directly. HTMLEditor demonstration.
  
• ComboBox: The ComboBox control provides a DropDownList of items, combined with TextBox. Different modes determine the interplay between the text entry and the list of items. ComboBox demonstration.
  
• ColorPicker: The ColorPicker Control Extender can be attached to any ASP.NET TextBox control. It provides client-side color-picking functionality with UI in a popup control. ColorPicker demonstration.
  

Be sure to also check out the new videos dedicated for these controls and their new tutorials.

There’s also now a new tutorial available on Creating a Custom AJAX Control Toolkit Control Extender. Be sure to check it out.

Grz, Kris.

Last week I had to help someone out on the ASP.NET that was asking the question that he couldn't find the 2.0 bits anymore of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. Indeed, when you navigate to the Releases tab of the project on Codeplex you'll only see this list:

 AjaxControlToolkit-Framework3.5SP1.zip

source code, 3033K, uploaded Aug 21 - 24104 downloads

 AjaxControlToolkit-Framework3.5SP1-NoSource.zip

application, 1716K, uploaded Aug 21 - 8256 downloads

 AjaxControlToolkit-Framework3.5SP1-DllOnly.zip

application, 512K, uploaded Aug 22 - 5704 downloads

 AjaxControlToolkit-ScriptFilesOnly.zip

application, 238K, uploaded Aug 22 - 2555 downloads

 

Phew, no more 2.0 bits. It seems that Microsoft decided to cut on keeping things rolling since SP1 of .NET 3.5 came out.

 

Luckily for the person I helped out you can still reach to the 2.0 bits by navigating to this url (the release of February 29th 2008).

 

Grz, Kris.

I'm using dasBlog for nearly a year now and am quite pleased with it. Since recently Mads Kristensen decided to get his hands dirty and create a new blogengine that he likes to share with the rest of the community by making it open source on CodePlex. Way to go!!

If you're interested you can grab the source code here: http://www.codeplex.com/blogengine.

Grz, Kris.