Link to article on website libraries

Question

I just started another website and it has taken me >30mins to copy/paste my other website and delete stuff because I don't have a template.

Theres lots of features I copied over that I haven't seen in libraries/templates. But I don't really know any libraries/templates. This site is ASP.NET. Some things I have is a string.format that escapes strings for HTML (so <hi> is text instead of a tag). Other features are adding or removing items in the url query, a class to pass in a ASP.NET error and log or convert it into a row in a db (I know about elmah but during development on my last site it wasn't Mono compatible), a mini AJAX library for success/fail/redirect/etc, a class to pass in a ASP.NET error and log or convert it into a row in a db and anything else I would use in every site.

I don't like my (library) design because I wasn't expecting to do more then 2-3 websites and I am on my 5th. I don't know proper ASP.NET either so what is an article that explains how to make a great library/template for websites?

Answer 1

If you're copying and pasting .net code from one project to another, you're probably doing it wrong.

A good way to do this is to create a new .net library in Visual Studio where you can save all of this code. Then, you can add a reference to your library and import its namespace just like you do with the code libraries you get from anywhere else.

Answer 2

Forget about an article explaining...

How about an actual library that does everything that you need: utilities.codeplex.com.