It has been a few months since my last C# project, and it is time to come back into the fold. For the last two projects, the client wanted VB.NET so we obliged them… you know, them being the clients and all, we kind of listen to them sometimes 
I’m back to C# though and this time is going to be an MVC project. So whenever I’ve been away from a technology for a few months, I pickup my favorite book on it and go over the basics. I have to say that I’ve missed the style of C#, even though I’ve enjoyed the xml literals in VB…sigh…
So C# 3.0 In A Nutshell it is, what a great book. It covers C# from the basics to the common usage scenrios accross the different technologies (asp.net, LINQ, etc…) .
I’ve also started to create a new MVC template so I’m putting together all the usual suspects that will make my development life easier.
1. jQuery plugins and other useful JS libraries
2. JavaScript minify and combine. I then use jsmin to setup my automatic JS minify and combine through a VS post built event. Here is a great blog post from David Ward, who gets credit for the original idea.
3. Replace the existing template for this nice free CSS template from opendesign.org and we are half way there to creating a kick butt template.
I still have to setup xVal and a few other things, but that will be for the next post. For now, I’m ready to get started.
