"HTML-based Web development has dominated application development for the last six years or so and there are no signs of that changing. However, things are changing as the .NET initiative takes hold. Although Microsoft has put a lot of effort into its Web-based interfaces, which include the powerful new ASP.NET Web Forms framework, I am guessing that there will actually be a push back to desktop-driven, forms-based applications once .NET takes hold."
MRU support, including both in-menu and sub-menu support.
A much more robust set of validation components modeled along the lines of the ASP.NET validation components, including required, regex, range and comparison validators.
FileDocument component for document/dirty bit handling.
Wizard support, including changing page groups on the fly!
Custom state treeview so that you can set and show all three checkbox states.
A class to expose the WinForms HandleCollector so that you can put your own custom resources into it.
A Screen Saver class.
A bunch of file utility classes, including retrieving mapped drives, retrieving shares and path resolution.
A cursor changer class that works with the using block.
A WebCommandLineHelper class to parse command line arguments from the URL used to launch href-exes.
Update to the FileNameDialog to include newish flags.
From Bernard Vander Beken: Highlights of the updated unit testing framework for .NET:
- Attribute based mechanism for identifying test fixtures and test methods.
- Automatic creation of test suites.
- Improved GUI runner allowing dynamic reloading of test assemblies.
- The Console runner supports XML output.
- Mostly backward compatible with NUnit 1.0.
That's according to today’s daily log on CloudNet.com, makers of SpamNet, a p2p spamfighter for Outlook. I've been using it for the last coupla days and been pretty darn happy. Recommended.
