cssvault - inspiring creativity

I have long shunned ASP.Net for the ugly and ancient HTML code that it uses for rendering controls. Enter the CSS Friendly Control Adapters kit (CFCA?) for ASP.Net 2.0, which “… provides pre-built control adapters that you can easily use to generate CSS-friendly markup from some of the more commonly used ASP.NET controls …”

Started late 2006 as a Microsoft project, it was released *gasp* open-source and required a lot of extra steps to incorporate into a project. Frustrated by this, an independent developer, Brian DeMarzo, repackaged the code so that it compiled into a single DLL, thus the present form of CFCA.

Although the website pretty much lacks updates, the project is still alive, with the latest release dated Jan 25.

You may download the code here.

I have always found ASP.Net’s web controls to be a mess or the resulting HTML syntax undesirable for CSS so I was elated when I discovered that you can actually control ASP.Net HTML rendering with ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters 1.0. Check it out!