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Despite there being a lot of articles about date parsing on the internet, I couldn't find any simple examples of how to read a user entered date (e.g. from a text box), and then manipulate it (in my case subtract a day) and then re-display it to the user. So I wrote the following function (you can view this full page by following this link ).

I recently wanted to come up some buttons with rollover effects using CSS, where I could use the same image, but different text for each button. The following article describes how I did it (you can view this full page by following this link ).

I'll expand on this soon. but for now, two sites that I think are particularly good are: ASP.NET especially for the videos about using C# and ASP.NET in visual studio, and CodeProject which I have always found to have well thought out and easy to use articles and code examples.

Here's a list of some of the tools that I find really useful. Visual Studio 2005. Hopefully I'll get to have a go at VS2008 soon... Firefox . I'm a big Microsoft fan, but even I have to admit - Firefox is much better than IE7. KDiff3 . Very handy for comparing versions of code. I'd also recommend replacing SourceSafe's WinDiff program with KDiff. Paint.NET for all those images... Unlocker , for those annoying times when the OS won't let you delete DLLs etc. I'd love to know if there are any tools that you think are really useful, so please feel free to add a comment to this post. Thanks.