EasyDiagram – Controls für ASP.Net Modelldiagramme

Hier http://www.easydiagram.net/Home.aspx gibt es ein Control zur Darstellung und Aufbau von Modellen (Flowcharts, Use Case, DB-Diagramme) auf Webseiten. Das Ganze ist kostenlos und unterstützt Drag-and-Drop. Habe das Control noch nicht selber ausprobieren können, aber sieht interessant und brauchbar aus.

Auszug aus der Beschreibung:

EasyDiagram.NET is a FREE, AJAX-driven diagram control for ASP.NET. Offering an incredibly responsive diagramming engine, EasyDiagram.NET will provide you with a fast, free, and easy alternative to many diagram components. What’s more, users will not need any plugin to run EasyDiagram.NET. Using pure AJAX and Javascript, EasyDiagram.NET is blazingly fast yet simple enough for the beginner to use.

Interesting Product for SharePoint

With Nintex Workflow 2007 it is possible to create/design workflows directly on SharePoint Site (looks like a AJAX enriched webapp). Also, there are some adapters for connecting to 3rd party Systems like Siebel or Biztalk.

http://www.nintex.com/en-US/Products/Pages/Workflow2007.aspx

Description from vendor:

Nintex Workflow 2007 enables organisations to build complex workflow processes quickly and easily using a web browser interface. Nintex Workflow 2007 empowers users across the organization to automate business processes, review workflow activities and automate common SharePoint administrative tasks.

Nintex Workflow 2007 is available in three editions - Standard, Enterprise and Workgroup.

Empower business users across your organisation to:

• Automate business processes
• See real-time feedback of workflow activities
• Create workflows in hours not days
• Automate common SharePoint administrative tasks
• Generate rich enterprise-level reporting
• Draw it, not code it

Empower developers across your organisation to:

• Connect to external data via SQL, Web Services, LDAP, XML
• Create and use your own Workflow Foundation activities
• Interact via a Web Service API
• Extend and customize using the Nintex Workflow SDK
• BizTalk integration
• Active Directory provisioning

Interesting Toolkits for Working with HTML Documents

Found two very interesting toolkits for working with HTML Documents programmatically.

• NHaml

  „NHaml (pronounced enamel) is a pure .NET implementation of the popular Rails Haml view engine. From the Haml website:

“Haml is a markup language that‘s used to cleanly and simply describe the XHTML of any web document, without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ERB, and ASP. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding XHTML into the template, because it is actually an abstract description of the XHTML, with some code to generate dynamic content.”

With Code like this you can create a XHTML Document; you don’t need to make open/closing tags -> NHaml does it for you

%h2= ViewData.CategoryName
%ul
  - foreach (var product in ViewData.Products)
    %li
      = product.ProductName 

You can use it in ASP.Net MVC projects but also in standalone projects. To use it there, use this code

var templateCompiler = new TemplateCompiler();
var viewType = templateCompiler.Compile("MyTemplate.haml");
var view = (ICompiledView)Activator.CreateInstance(viewType);   string output = view.Render();

A good Tutorial can be found here

http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther….

• HTML Agility Toolkit

  http://www.codeplex.com/htmlagilitypack

  „This is an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT (you actually don’t HAVE to understand XPATH nor XSLT to use it, don’t worry…). It is a .NET code library that allows you to parse „out of the web“ HTML files. The parser is very tolerant with „real world“ malformed HTML. The object model is very similar to what proposes System.Xml, but for HTML documents (or streams).

  With this Toolkit you can realise easier HTML Documents in Code than to put it together on yourself…