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Utility Belt - Future
of Utility Belt
This list just reflects the tasks I
am willing to commit time to. If you already have the code for some of these
tasks and want the credit, send it in!
So you can rest easy, I will mention
that Utility Belt will always be FREE for many reasons I don't have time to
explain here. I have plans that will take a couple of years to implement - the
vision for Utility Belt 5.0 is already in my brain. The coding to get there is a
big job for me and an ambitious volunteer team.
Our Utility Belt Discussion list is @
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AspNetUtilityBelt
The feature list below is provided to spur
discussion, and to give people guidance on the new features already planned so
they can focus on suggesting things we have not thought of. Please
send us any additions to UTILITY BELT you found invaluable you are willing
to share. Here is the list of imminent planned
features:
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File dependent caching for all .mdb
and XML file parsing
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Total control of Table Of Contents and Prev/Next
formatting. Alphabetical Indexing in addition to
TOC presentation based on tags in XML file.
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GraphicsHelpers to simplify drawing
text and text within boxes in a variety of colors and fonts without learning any
GDI or GDI+.
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High speed mail by generating SMTP
Pickup files and bypassing the mail object
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JavaScript "helpers" to make cross
browser JS easy and achieve JS effects for coders who don't know how to code in
JS at all.
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Support of every Amazon XML Webservice call
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Support for PayPal
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Support for Google WebServices
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DataGrid and CRUD "helpers" to make
people doing datagrid and data update scenarios have a really easy time.
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XML "Helpers" that make it so people
with no XML experience can read and write XML without ever having to learn DOMs
or XMLReaders. 1 line of code from the XMLHelpers will replace hundreds of lines
of tedious XML Parsing.
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Async support for Database calls so
many operations can be initiated and run in background while the ASP.net page
quickly goes on to next line of code.
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