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The Microsoft Web Development Tools blog

An Open Source development framework ... with mixins.

PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications based upon the classic Model, View and Controller concept. Based upon proven design patterns, this free, open source framework which was originally implemented in the ActionScript 3 language for use with Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR, is now being ported to all major development platforms.

TestApi is an experimental library of test and utility APIs that enables developers and testers to test WPF applications, Windows Forms applications, .NET Framework applications, and Win32 applications.

Microsoft an ASP.Net MVC "Sample" (or is it a starter kit?) source code that can be used by Web developers to build blog engines into sites ... it's called "Oxite" and it's the software running the blogs on MIX Online. http://www.codeplex.com/oxite

here are some useful tools that make development more efficient.

工欲善其事, 必先利其器 Useful Tools Make Development More Efficient

Solution Factory is a Visual Studio Addin that exports a solution as a Visual Studio multi-project template, so you can provide best practices for specific development project types.

One word of caution: the "Typemock Isolator for Open Source" edition is only free to use for developers of open source projects. For Commercial users of any open source project that uses Typemock , it is not free...

Continuous Integration involves frequent automated builds (including automated tests) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible in a team development setting.

NDepend is a tool that simplifies managing a complex .NET code base. Architects and developers can analyze code structure, specify design rules, plan massive refactoring, do effective code reviews and master evolution by comparing different versions of the code.

Visual WebGui is another 'Web like Desktop' platform that offers an open source framework to develop applications that work in *both* DHTML/AJAX and Silverlight

Krypton Toolkit is the only free set of professional quality controls for WinForms development ...

The Express Edition of Persistor.NET® means carefree database storage -- "it is the right tool for all developers who just don't want to care about the database."

The JetBrains Web IDE is a new Integrated Development Environment for web programming: Html, CSS, Javascript, XML, PHP, and SQL ... and support for version control systems, etc

The CodePlex Foundation was created as a forum in which open source communities and the software development community can come together with the shared goal of increasing participation in open source community projects. The CodePlex Foundation will complement existing open source foundations and organizations, providing a forum in which best practices and shared understanding can be established by a broad group of participants, both software companies and open source communities. Initial funding for the Foundation comes from Microsoft Corporation.

A custom color picker designed specifically for developers. Makes getting colors out of Photoshop/Acorn mock-ups quick and easy. Currently supports NSColor, UIColor, CGColorRef, CSS and HTML styles.

"Gibraltar records and sends error and usage information to your support staff and provides powerful, yet simple analysis and visualization tools so you can triage customer issues faster, better optimize development priorities and continuously improve software quality."