Not being an ASP guy from the get-go I needed some time to finish our first project here at A. D. Williams Engineering. ASP is way different (or way back as I think of it) from Winforms. But with the help of AJAX and the AJAX toolkit it’s getting there.

And having used it for a bit now I can see the beauty of the whole thing. I always liked the way you can present readable information with HTML. It generates really nice text flow that is so hard to recreate with Winforms. But getting some user input is a whole different story… More...

I got some request for the old vb.net 1.1 versions of the controls which are not online at codeplex.

You can download it from this site now but they will be completely unsupported (mostly because I don't have VS2003 installed anymore...) and I don't know if this version is the latest.

It is the latest that I've found on my backup but if somebody has a more current version please share it.

Here are the download links

	XPCC.net 1.1 Sourcecode
	XPCC.net 1.1 Setup Files

When I was starting to develop in VS.net I wanted that nice XP-Look for all of my programs. The problem is, that Visual Studio shipped without most of them. The most missed controls where the Taskbox/Taskbar control and the Grouped ListView Contol.
I ran into implementations of some of the controls on the internet (namely vbAccelerator and the TaskVision Sample on http://www.windowsforms.net) and into a document provided by Microsoft named "Windows XP Design Guidelines". This document provides detailed information on some of the new controls and I started to recreate some of these controls for VS.net (with hints and help from the sites mentioned above - thank you again!) More...