Turnersville, NJ—One of my pet projects has just been made an open source project.
The project is named "Halide", and it's a set of ASP.NET 2.0 classes, written in C#, that are designed to make creating web applications easier, and to make the resulting sites more secure, and more feature-rich, as well as make all your projects more consistent.
To accomplish all this, the classes provide a set of high-level functionality. For example, you can send e-mail using a single line of code. You can read in a row from a database using a single line of code, and then use the resulting data object to run a stored procedure with parameters, and the data object already knows what parameters the procedure requires, and sends them automatically.
And that's just the beginning. There are string handling methods, lots of regular expression methods, form field validation methods, image manipulation features, and more.
I've posted the source on Microsoft CodePlex. And since Microsoft Team Explorer for Visual Studio is FREE now, anyone with Visual Studio can access CodePlex projects!
So, if you're interested in helping to make Halide increasingly better, drop by CodePlex and let me know, or contact me here via my Contact page, or via Mezzocode's web site, http://www.mezzocode.com.
Let's get our nerd on, shall we?