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I Have found the greatest menu control for ASP.NET and it is FREE. Check it out on obout.com. You can easily create very good looking menu's.

Check also their Treeview control.

I have found a great WAP emulator on PyWeb.

The following Article explains how you can integrate an emulator with Visual Studio.NET.

I have used the Janus GridEX control in many of my VB6 projects. It worked perfectly and it is very fast.

I have tested the .NET Trial version, it is even better. This is a component that everybody who is building WinForms application should buy.

Have a look at Janus GridEX Control for .NET and try it yourself.

You should write your code in a consistent style. This is easier said then done. The SortCode macro helps you with this by sorting your C# code.

The SortCode macro sorts all members of a type (class or struct) on alphabetical order grouped by their type.

The default order of the types is:

• Events
• Fields
• Enums
• Constructor
• Destructor
• Properties and Functions
• Properties and Functions of implemented interfaces

I find Regular Expression powerful but difficult. Eric Gunnerson wrote the Regular Expression Workbench. This makes them easy.

It's a tool to create, test, and study regular expressions with this workbench. With the "Examine-o-matic" feature, hover over the regex to decode what it means

I have found a class that allows for balloon shaped forms in .NET.

Have a look at CodeProject.

What happened with the XML WebServices Award on the GotDotNet website? I have submitted my Html2Xml webserivce. I don't expect to win the 25.000 dollar price, an X-box would be nice :-)

The winners would be announced at the Teched in Barcelona (1-5 July 2002). Then this was moved to July 12. It is now August. Nothing has happened. Is there no winner?

Strange!

Most commercial WinForm applications have a SplashScreen. This article explains how you can implement one using the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Example: Visual Studio.NET SplashScreen