60+ .NET libraries every developer should know about. Every good developer knows never to re-invent the wheel, especially if there is software out there that has been tested by others, and has an established track record.
As a developer using the .NET framework I’ve found some of these libraries invaluable, so I’m sharing them for some of the other dev’s out there with a brief outline of how to use. Yedda Twitter Library. URL: I’ve used this on a number of very simple twitter projects, where I’ve just needed to send an update. As the site says its more of a wrapper for the Twitter API than an actual library, but none the less its an easy way to integrate with the service via a drop in dll. Dim objYedda As New Yedda.TwitterDim status as StringDim strTwitterUser as String = “username”Dim strTwitterPassword as String = “password”status = “Hello World”objYedda.Update(strTwitterUser, strTwitterPassword, strStatus, Yedda.Twitter.OutputFormatType.RSS) FileHelpers Library URL: First define the structure class… Perform actions on the array of Products. jQuery Enlightenment. 5 Powerful WYSIWYG editors for web-based applications – woorkup.com.
Playing with JQuery Validation library. New job (2 weeks in), new responsibilities, new tools to play with.
Amazingly (for me), one of the new tools is the JQuery Validation Library. My diving into this also coincides with ScottGu’s announcement that Microsoft is creating their own CDN for JQuery and JQuery Validation. Bad news is that this means I’m behind. That sucks. I was using JQuery MONTHS before Microsoft officially started supporting it (at least 6 months – but I’m too lazy to look it up). And you can add the JQuery Validation library like this: Note: see those end tags, great annoyance of my life, but you have to have them, you can’t do <script src=” />. Anyway, back to validation. The more I play with this library, the more I like it. Getting Started with JQuery Validation: The JavaScript Way: OK, assuming you have JQuery and the JQuery Validation library included, lets start with a simple customer form: 1: <form id="CustomerForm"> 2: <p> 3: <label for="firstNameEdit">First Name:</label> 5: </p> 6: <p> 9: </p>
Custom-Built Professional Web Development and Design. This week I want to cover a topic that I feel has become an important part of any developer’s toolkit: the ability to load and manipulate JSON feeds from other sites via AJAX.
Many sites are sharing data using JSON in addition to RSS feeds nowadays, and with good reason: JSON feeds can be loaded asynchronously much more easily than XML/RSS. This article will cover the following: What is JSON? Why does JSON matter? How do we use JSON in a project? We’ll also use our newfound skills with JSON at the end of this project to build a quick app that loads photos from Flickr without requiring a page refresh. What Is JSON? JSON is short for JavaScript Object Notation, and is a way to store information in an organized, easy-to-access manner. Storing JSON Data As a simple example, information about me might be written in JSON as follows: This creates an object that we access using the variable jason.
Storing JSON Data in Arrays Nesting JSON Data Why Does JSON Matter? How Do We Load JSON into a Project?