Component Library
What better way to start a blog then to start with the beginnings of any .Net project and the fundamental building blocks of a good project. The Component Library. I will start with a pretty cool component I wrote a few years back, and slowly start to build the component library to something useful, which can be plugged into and application to produce RAD projects that are consistent and maintainable. In my view a component library needs to be 100% generic. It needs to be very simple to deploy Step1 - Add Project Reference. and the functionality needs to be simple enough not to warrant months of study, and experimentation. To that end, all my components are relatively simple. Sometimes even overkill, but hopefully I will be able to convince you otherwise. The first part to my component Library is the MailParser. In a few of the project I have worked on, there was a need to sent automated emails via some template driven device. The norm is to write your mail templates with some sort of...