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The article recommends several solutions for source code snippet libraries in ASP.NET sites. Key issues discussed include the features of software tools such as Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005, instructions on how to use the software products and their benefits for ASP.NET developers and programmers.

The article features the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition software from Microsoft. It includes Visual Basic, C++, and J# Express. Its setup application will examine the user's computer and only download the components that the user will choose or that are necessary to complete the installation. The Structured Query Language Server Express is optional.

Introduces the SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer (SQLBPA) tool from Microsoft Corp. System requirements; SQLBPA reporting and filtering capabilities; Features.

Features the FxCop tool developed by Microsoft Corp. to monitor violations in .NET rules. Ability of the tool to analyze the Common Intermediate Language within, compare the structure, content and coding style to a list of rules; Benefits of using the tool; Integrating the tool into the build process.

The .NET Framework greatly simplifies the creation and consumption of SOAP messages in a distributed computing environment. Visual Studio .NET goes even further in facilitating this process by quickly generating the proxy classes for the remote methods, so the developer doesn't even need to know that he or she is invoking code executing on an entirely different machine. However, although all of this abstraction is great for most developers, there are still occasions where you need to have more control over the SOAP requests and responses that are being passed across the wire during this communication. It might come as a surprise to some developers without extensive Web services experience that the .NET Framework allows very fine control over almost every aspect of the SOAP creation and consumption process.

Describes features of The Regulator software tool the author considers helpful for Web developers who use Regular Expressions (RegEx) input validation. Syntax help for RegEx; Validation of RegEx strings with pattern matching; Generation of .NET RegEx code in Visual Basic and C#; Compilation of the code to a data link library.

Features BugTracker.NET, an aptly-named free and open-source tool for tracking bugs. Integration of BugTracker.NET into a development process; Key features and configuration options; Capacity to allow the list of users and some of their preferences.

Demonstrates the capabilities of Microsoft's Data Access Application Block, a WEb site development helper file that encapsulates and simplifies boilerplate ADO.NET code. Extensibility; Ability of discovering and caching the collection of SqlParameters for a stored procedure call; Provision of data access process tailored toward ASP.NET application.

Features Web Services Enhancements 2.0 software. Specifications; Capabilities; Applications.

Reports on the Dotfuscator Community Edition, a tool in the Visual Studio NET 2003 computer software used to complicate efforts to inspect the rendering code. Use of configuration files to set up an obfuscation project; Renaming of the SuperSecretEncryption method; List of obfuscation resources.

Features the Data Adapter Configuration Wizard of VS .NET. Ability to write all the necessary codes; Advantage in computer software development; Dragging and dropping data; Choice between structured query language and best-practice recommendation.

Explores the rapid application development tool Server Explorer in Visual Studio .NET, an application software developed by Microsoft Corp. Description of the Server Explorer; Objects that can be dragged off the tool and dropped onto a Web Form; Convenience provided by the Server Explorer.

Focuses on Web site security measures enhanced by the second version of AppScan Developer Edition from Sanctum Inc. against hackers access to server, data and customer's identities in an application. Ways of coding that prevent vulnerabilities of possible malicious hacker attacks; Steps and procedures in using AppScan developer edition in the Web; Outstanding features of the said software application.