I've just published 2 open source deployments in one month, one of which is a brand new project: Auto-Input Protection (AIP). Both deployments are available on CodePlex.
DocProject 1.4.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available
DocProject drives the Sandcastle help generation tools using the power of Visual Studio 2005. Choose from various project templates that build compiled help version 1.* or 2.* for all project references. DocProject facilitates the administration and development of project documentation with Sandcastle, allowing you to use the integrated tools of Visual Studio 2005 to customize Sandcastle's output.
Download DocProject from CodePlex, which comes with the complete source code (C#). Try it out and let me know what you think.
Here are some of the new features in 1.4.0:
- DocProject's Sandcastle build engine now uses the Sandcastle March CTP transformations.
- DocProjects and DocSites can now build Html Help 1.*, Help 2.*, neither or both via a single build.
- The New Project wizard has been extended for the Sandcastle build engine, allowing you to choose the type of help that your project will build (see previous feature).
- DocSites use AJAX to improve client-side performance.
- DocSite's index can be filtered, client-side.
- The tools options page, "Dave Sexton's Tools", has been renamed to "DocProject" and was split into separate sub categories.
- A status notification and progress bar now appear during help builds.
- Improved error handling, including logging to the Application event log.
- Several bug fixes.
Use a DocSite template to build an AJAX-enabled ASP.NET Web Application for your compiled help, which includes an interactive TOC, filterable index, breadcrumbs, an auto-generated header and footer, and a link to download the compiled help file. The auto-generated website has been tested for compatibility with the IE7, Firefox and Opera web browsers only.
Figure 1: Example DocSite shown in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista; Sandcastle vs2005 presentation.
Auto-Input Protection Beta 1 for ASP.NET Is Now Available
AIP is an extensible ASP.NET web control that provides CAPTCHA protection for your blogs, forums, wikis and websites, greatly reducing the likelihood of unwanted form submission from automated spam and hacks.
Want to see it in action? Look no further than in the comments section of my own blog posts. :)
Download AIP from CodePlex, which comes with the complete source code (C#). Try it out and let me know what you think.
Add the AIP web control to a web page with full designer support and only a few modifications to your web.config file:
Modify the AIP web control's presentation with a custom template and modify the CAPTCHA image that it generates by changing the bitmap and filter providers' settings in your web.config file:
Easily implement custom CAPTCHA algorithms that produce randomized patterns with a custom bitmap provider and filter providers:
