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.netTiers is a set of open source code generation templates that simplify the tasks of creating customized Application Tiers for your Microsoft.Net applications in just a few minutes. .netTiers generated architecture is custom to your domain, uses familiar patterns, and follows the guidance of Microsoft's recommended patterns and practices. In fact, the .netTiers base architecture is built upon the Microsoft Enterprise Library Application Blocks.

Extending some C# controls to introudce round labels, text boxes, comboboxes etc.

An article on creating a Prompted TextBox in the style of Outlook 2007, IE7 and Firefox 2.0

I have written a number of applications and always been a little disappointed at how drab they look using the standard VS controls. I had been looking for an easy way for brightening up these apps and in the end resorted to writing my own button control.

A Visual Studio 2005 like ToolBox control which supports almost all features of the original: drag'n'drop, renaming, hiding tabs, items, and disabling items.

A versatile and multi-purpose button and button-bar with full Office 2003 colors and style.

A deep XmlSerializer, supporting complex classes, enumerations, structs, collections, and arrays.

A C# 2.0 library for executing parts of a method code asynchronously using Anonymous Methods and ManagedIOCP.

A WebForms TabStrip control.

Online month-view calendar of items rented by the day, with user defined rental lists.