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I would like to share a list of real useful third party webcontrols.

Why? Because there are so many controls on the market actually and it's hard to find the best one.

What I would like to see is not an exhaustive list of controls but more what developers use, and sort this list by true ratings based on your experience.

So if it's working well, I will organise a list like Fabrice did for the tools.

I would like to start by two types of controls I use a lot.

- Menu Control
  - ASP.Net menus Coalesys
I like this one, the only issue I have is that it's quite hard to setup.

- Text Editor 
Rich Text box RichTextbox
Probably the most complete and easy to use

Is somebody know the best way to remove HTML tags from a parsed document ?

I tried Regs expression but not so conclusive.

Another good article from Chris Garrett about reusable rollover javascript function and images.
The only thing missing is a preload images function, but this shouldn't be a problem to implement.

I have now VS 2003 installed. Slow download but cool installation, and it's really worth it !

Something not clear by the way. Do I need to download the 3 MSDN CD images,
or can I use my actual MSDN Cds plus the April 2003 shipment ?

Few days ago, I finish a small .Net project, where I have to manage a survey for schools with dozens of dozens of web controls like textboxes, checkboxes, radiobuttons, etc...

The performance of the application was quite good, but saving data in SQL appear to be a disaster.

Very slow, so obviously a lot of Timeout errors. I tried everything, like increasing the running time for my application, or doing some code optimisation. Not really successful.

So I came to the idea of doing the most of the job on the SQL side. What I did is to send an all 'blob' of information to a stored procedure, including questions id and answers, and asked to SQL to split the data in a suitable way and store it.

Well the only problem is that in SQL you don't have any Split() function like in VB.

So I wrote my own function and it works so well, that I would like to share the function.

Notice: you have to create this as a User Defined function and not as a normal stored procedure.

CREATE FUNCTION Piece ( @CharacterExpression VARCHAR(8000), @Delimiter CHAR(1), @Position INTEGER)

I just finish to read the mail from Scott about the future of this community.

I agreed with Paul Gielens about creating groups. I find that as the opposite of the idea of a community.

I like the randomness of the different posts, meanwhile some posts are really out of .Net topic.

If we put people in categories, it's for me like going back to a kind of discussion forum where you enter in a thread only if you find the thread.

Doing like that, I believe that gurus will communicate only for gurus, and the same for web developers.

Since I have this blog opened, I learn a lot from everybody.

For me the most important thing missing is a Search function through all the 3500 posts.
A large amount of code is already there, and it's quite hard to find it. Or a link to an article deeply buried in some guy's blog.

No don't expect me to comment the crap from Robert

We have in french a word for this junk : lamentable !

This software is very useful when you commute in London.

In an attempt to reduce traffic congestion, the city of London recently began charging commuters a special tax whenever they drive into the downtown area. If you deliberately venture into the downtown zone, the so-called "Congestion Charge" can be paid via SMS. But, how can you be sure just where the "free" and "taxed" roadways are?
Now the latest versio of Tube map software from Visual IT let you know the details by a clear map of the city centre.