.Net tools

• ·         NuGet Package Manager: NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools in Visual Studio. You can install all of the library discussed here from within NuGet
• ·         AjaxControlToolkit:  http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite/ An open-source project built on top of the Ms ASP.NET AJAX framework. It contains more than 30 controls that enable you to easily create rich, interactive web pages. Eg, Calendar, ModalPopup, AsyncFileUpload
• ·         ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers is an application-wide error logging facility that is completely pluggable. Tutorial: http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/deployment/deploying-web-site-projects/Logging-Error-Details-with-ELMAH-cs
• ·         JQuery, JQuery UI & plugins,: More than 55% of the world most visited 10000 website use JQuery. Why shouldn’t we use it?
• ·         Json: JavaScript Object Notation is a text format, lightweight data-interchange format. A Fat-Free Alternative to XML.
• ·         Json.NET: Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET. see http://james.newtonking.com/pages/json-net.aspx for details.
• ·         EF:

o   Microsoft product, we know what is means.

o   Highly Supported and plenty of resources online, with fairly strong communities online. Evolving very fast, fixes was coming out very fast and it was getting better day by day.

o   LINQ.  No more CRUD.

o   Lower learning curve than Nhibernate.

o   Desired features listed here  http://data.uservoice.com/forums/72025-ado-net-entity-framework-ef-feature-suggestions

o   Database Frist has more features than Code First

o   Easy to code and maintain compared to Dataset