>>>What C# tools are you using regularly? I am always interested in those.
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>Bonnie's blog gave me lots of data access classes and methods that I have tweaked and use constantly. Too many to enumerate here.

Thanks for the plug Bill ... again! <g>

>Be cautioned tho, tools can bite you. I used a color tabcontrol tool (.NET Winforms don't support colored tab pages) I found and after spending days developing controls and methods depending on it, I discovered an irreparable bug in it and had to scrap all that work.
>Moving all those controls and methods to a vanilla tabcontrol was a nightmare.

An FYI for next time and you'll avoid that headache. What you should have done is first written your own MyTabControl class, sub-classed from that third-party control and used MyTabControl in your own stuff. Then, when you discovered you didn't want to use the third-party control, all you would have had to do is change MyTabControl to sub-class from the System.Windows.Forms.TabControl instead of from the wonky third-party control and you're done. Well, maybe a little more involved than that, since it sounds like the third-party control had a bunch of methods you probably also had to deal with (but you could have simply put empty methods into MyTabControl). Anyway, this idea might come in handy next time ...

~~Bonnie





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>Another tool I use daily is a SQL stored procedure generator Naomi pointed me to. BIG time saver and grief eliminator.
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>Another that has been a big home run is a PDF merge utility (PDFUtils) I found that allows you to merge pdf's according to whatever rules you need to apply.
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>Another harnesses a relatively undocumented feature in .NET called FtpWebRequest, which has everything you need to FTP files with good control. Someone on here from Paris (I forget his name) gave me some code that I tweaked a bit and now I have a plug and play FTP tool that uses just .NET components.
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>Someone did the same thing for email and now I have a simple interface to an email class that uses .NET components
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>Those are some good ones which come to mind.
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>Be cautioned tho, tools can bite you. I used a color tabcontrol tool (.NET Winforms don't support colored tab pages) I found and after spending days developing controls and methods depending on it, I discovered an irreparable bug in it and had to scrap all that work.
>Moving all those controls and methods to a vanilla tabcontrol was a nightmare.