--- title: "More free cool components from SharpTools" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/9/more-free-cool-components-from-sharptools.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/9/more-free-cool-components-from-sharptools.html" published: "2004-12-09T16:47:00" updated: "2004-12-09T16:47:00" tags: [".Net Original", "Cool Tools"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "\"Hi Roy , Writing as a followup to your blog about our freeware developer tools in October - thanks for spreading the word about us! We've done almost 100 freeware developer downloads a day since then, btw, and are glad…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # More free cool components from SharpTools By Roy Osherove December 9, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools) **Historical article** · Originally published December 9, 2004; technical details may be outdated. _"Hi Roy,_ _Writing as a followup to your blog about our freeware developer tools in October - thanks for spreading the word about us!  We've done almost 100 freeware developer downloads a day since then, btw, and are glad to think a lot of others are using our tools and components._ _We have since updated several of them, and have added some important ones I thought I'd mention:_ [_SharpTools_](http://www.ms-inc.net/Default.aspx?Page=SharpToolsInfo) _has added an NUnit plugin which integrates NUnit testing directly into the IDE_ _Freeware_ [_web-based Chat component_](http://www.ms-inc.net/Default.aspx?Page=Products&ProductID=WebChat) _- this is probably our coolest new download.  It's done using HTTP, client-side script and DHTML - no client download needed!  It's full-featured on client and server side, and is IE- and Mozilla-compatible._  _Freeware_ [_OLTP library_](http://www.ms-inc.net/Default.aspx?Page=Products&ProductID=PaymentGateway)_, as well as an_ [_ASP.NET ShoppingCart_](http://www.ms-inc.net/Default.aspx?Page=Products&ProductID=ShoppingCart) _UI layer on top of that library_ [_Freeware web compression library_](http://www.ms-inc.net/Default.aspx?Page=Products&ProductID=WebCompression) _that automatically and transparently takes advantage of browser support for Deflate or GZip (most browsers) to compress HTTP traffic from server to client_ [_Freeware plugin library_](http://www.ms-inc.net/Default.aspx?Page=Products&ProductID=Plugins) _which is type- and interface agnostic, and makes it easy to take advantage of shadow-copying of libraries, AppDomain process seperation, and dynamic discovery of plugins on the disk_ _Freeware web-based_ [_threaded discussion forums_](http://www.ms-inc.net/Default.aspx?Page=Products&ProductID=Forums) _component_ _I hope some of those sound interesting.  Basically, we're packaging up cool stuff we've developed for our own projects and sharing it with other developers.  We hope that's good karma, good networking, and good marketing - we'll see._  _Thanks again,_ _Jon Schwartz_ _Morrison Schwartz_ [_www.ms-inc.net_](http://www.ms-inc.net/) _"_ Need I say more? ## More in .Net Original [All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original) - Dec 13, 2004 ### [.Net Deep dive lecture videos online](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/13/net-deep-dive-lecture-videos-online.html) - Dec 13, 2004 ### [Juval Lowey in Israel](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/13/juval-lowey-in-israel.html) - Dec 5, 2004 ### [Extending NUnit \*easily\* with version 2.2.1 (finally!)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/5/extending-nunit-easily-with-version-221-finally.html) - Dec 2, 2004 ### [The Regulator sucks for Non-Admins](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/2/the-regulator-sucks-for-non-admins.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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