asp.net MVC Developer's five most essential tools

1. Chirpy Zippy

Download Address: http://chirpy.codeplex.com/

In the past, before deploying JavaScript scripts and CSS files to a Web server, I used the compression tool for compression and deployment, and after installing chirpy, your scripts and CSS files will be automatically compressed based on their name, for example, Suppose you have a footstep called Myscript.js file to compress, as long as you rename it to Myscript.yui.js, it will invoke Yui compression program automatically compressed, compressed files in Solution Explorer display as a subproject, you can continue to view and debug uncompressed scripts.

Use the method please refer to here.

2. T4mvc

Download Address: http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/

I've written a lot about T4MVC, but it's still worth mentioning, it's a T4 template for asp.net MVC applications that simplifies the creation of controllers, behaviors, and views to make the MVC code more maintainable.

3. MVC Contrib

Download Address: http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/

T4MVC is a small part of the MVC Contrib Library, the MVC Contrib library contains various tools for the ASP.net MVC development field, and I used the grid HTML Helper in a recent private project, but MVC contrib contains a lot of features and libraries, You need to find them in your daily development.

4. ASP. NET Wizard and image optimization framework

Download Address: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/50869

The best way to improve Web performance is to reduce the number of HTTP requests rendered to a page, and one way to reduce the number of requests is to use CSS sprites or inline images. For example, suppose your site has a toolbar that contains 12 32x32 pixel icons, and at least 12 HTTP requests are generated when the page is loaded, that is, each small icon produces an HTTP request, the CSS Wizard knits all the icons together, and then uses CSS to define the bounds of each image. This reduces the number of requests to 1.

Unfortunately, the process of creating the wizard is time-consuming and tedious, basically merging all the images, and then declaring the x and Y coordinates of each image in the stylesheet, and if the process of merging the images and creating the CSS is automated, there is a demand for the corresponding product, ASP. NET Wizard and image optimization Framework thus came into being.

5. ELMAH

Download Address: http://code.google.com/p/elmah/

Elmah is a good MVC application logging tool, if you have not used it, strongly recommend that you try, although the need for a set, but its function is very powerful, here is a quick list for reference: