Over the past 8 months or so I have been working pretty steady with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I thought I would drop an entry with 10 things you should either use or be aware of that I think really help my ASP.NET programming efficiency.
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Last summer I started using Infragistics controls to help me build cooler sites. One thing I did not count on was the severe lack of useful documentation and tutorials provided by Infragisitcs on using their tools. For example I have not even begun to play with the DataGrid and Chart included with the control suite.
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One thing I have learned in my ten plus years of building web sites is that data needs to be valid. If it is not valid, then the application could just blow up and your client will be mad at you/me. In those ten years I have tried many, many things to make sure users put the right type of data in the fields we provide them. Credit Cards, Phone Numbers, Money, you get the idea. No matter what I do, they seem to somehow find a way to get past the javascript, specialized control, etc.
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I really like the fact that VS 2005 offers its own little private web server to debug your apps with. I really do not like that I can not figure out how to add virtual directories to it. Why you may ask would I need to do that? Well despite the many instances when you do this in real life, for instance I am posting a private application on a customer's site today. But more often than not you will be using a thirda party control, like Infragistics or the FreeTextBox.
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