Chapter 1 Tools

• SubText
  Subtext is a personal blog publishing platform that focuses on usability, elegance, and simplicity. If you’ve ever caught yourself throwing your hands in the air and declaring that you’re going to write your own blogging engine, then Subtext is for you.

• ASP.NET AJAX (formerly "Atlas") - |
  A client- and server-side framework providing components and infrastructure that allow the creation of highly interactive web applications while hiding the complexities of Ajax and JavaScript portability
  
• Anthem.NET - |
  Provides web form controls with Ajax built right into them; no client-side JavaScript required
  
• Ajax.NET Professional - |
  A lightweight Ajax framework that makes it easy to call server-side methods from client-side code.
  
• BusyBoxDotNet - |
  An ASP.NET web-control library capable of showing a customizable message during time-consuming activities
  
• CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters - |
  Lets you get better HTML out of your ASP.NET controls, making it easier to style them with CSS
  
• FreeTextBox - |
  An HTML editor web control that lets you easily add word-processor-like functionality to your applications
  
• WebChart - |
  A freely available charting control that, though it might not include all the features of commercial controls, handles creating standard charts in excellent fashion
  
• RSS Toolkit - |
  Includes a plethora of RSS-related features, including an RSS data source, an HTTP handler, and an object model