Namespaces for Classes
So I am working on the self-validating text box, and the first issue I ran across was the namespace naming convention. Just what the heck should the namespace be for these controls? I finally settled on something similar to the Microsoft convention – At least I know it works.

MyCompany.Web.UI.WebControls

Will I ever have a need for classes under my web namespace that are not web controls? Well – I hope so. I have in mind a web counter since so many of my customers request one, but lets save that for another day. In the meantime I hope to keep my namespaces as flexible as possible.

In the back of my mind, I knew that I would only build the dll at the webcontrol level. This way I won't dump a whole bunch of 'extra' functionality that the project doesn't need. Of course this means more maintanance.

How do you guys typically do this?

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Best Text Editors
Besides the obvious answer (Visual Studio) what do you folks use as text editors? I just downloaded two Vim and UltraEdit. I plan on trying to use Perl some in Windows, but I use the Text editors now for HTML development.

A tool I have really come to like (if you have Firefox) is the "view formatted source" plug-in.

This has proven to be an invaluable tool for viewing HTML source. I just wish I could save a page and edit it locally with this tool. If I had the time I'd write that myself.

So give your fave text editor a shout out - tell me why you like it.
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