There are a few components I have discovered of late which are cutting down my development time and also providing my clients with features I would not be able to provide on my own. Funny enough, one of them is Coalesys' (see post above, http://www.coalesys.com)
Web Menu for .NET. Very useful for Dynamic menus in a web page, and my clients love it. It's rather expensive for a development license, but you only have to buy the license and then you may use it as much as you like. Another component I have been using is
Advanced Intellect's aspNetEmail component (http://www.aspnetemail.com). It's a very well put together email component that supports adding fields from a database to a templated email. Very useful when sending out hundreds or thousands of emails which you
would like customized for each customer. And finally, the one all my clients love -- the RichTextBox (http://www.richtextbox.com). Two great examples of how this can be used. The first is I use it for a client who sends regular emails to his customers and
constantly wants to tweak the emails. I store the text in a database which he edits with the RichTextBox. Combined with the aspNetEmail component above, he can add custom "code" to the email text which will grab the customer's name or whatever other pertinent
information from the database as it sends out the emails. I also use RichTextBox for a magazine site I built so that they may edit all of their articles as they put them on the site. They love it! Those would be my top 3 right now. Absolutely worth the money....especially
when the client pays for it. :0)
xianking
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Re: What components are really worth buying?
Mar 04, 2003 03:56 PM|LINK