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PocketNerd

For some time now, this odd fellow has been quietly building useful stuff on his site. His latest little gem looks nothing like a lettuce, and is in fact a very useful Visual Studio (2003) wizard for building wizards. You can build standalone Winforms applications that behave like wizards, or wizards in class libraries that you can incorporate within an app, and you can even build Visual Studio (2003) wizards.

Now this last piece is truly wonderful. If, like me, you've occasionally dabbled with building Visual Studio wizards, you'll know how arcane, cumbersome and Magoo-ish the task is. The PocketNerd wizard streamlines an awful lot of the nonsense, and makes it really rather easy - especially for building the UI to your wizard (which, if you do it yourself, is a monster pitn). The wizard and documentation are all freely downloadable, and the tutorial is pretty comprehensive.

The nerd also has a nice little manifest wizard. This is a Visual Studio wizard that allows you to add an assembly manifest to your project. There's also a rather handy little collection of 'bits of code'.

Of course, what he needs to do next is convert the bits of code into VS 2005 code snippets, and convert all his wizards into VS 2005 wizards (where the wizard model is slightly different). I wait with bated breath.

 

Published Saturday, April 23, 2005 6:03 PM by whitechapel

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