We jump-start new projects using several in-house libraries that we have built over the years. We’ll be publishing these libraries shortly.

Our Libraries

LaunchE controls library for WPF/E

LaunchE is our controls library for WPF/E. It both provides a set of common controls (the current version supports button and checkbox) but does so in a flexible framework that enables the rapid creation of new controls as well as UI skinning of existing ones using XAML.Version 0.001 is available now with a creative commons license.

LaunchKit for .NET

A generic “Web 2.0”-in-a-box site for ASP.NET and C#. Includes authentication, database access, users, friends, keywords, tagging, navigation, blogs.

LaunchKit for PHP

A generic “Web 2.0”-in-a-box site for PHP (LAMP stack). Includes authentication, database access, users, friends, keywords, tagging, navigation, blogs.

LaunchXP (JavaScript)

Cross-platform / cross-browser JavaScript libraries.

ImageKit (JavaScript)

Libraries for doing cool things with images on the client in the browser.

LaunchWPF

Client-side libraries to take advantage of the Microsoft Windows Presentation Framework (WPF, formerly Avalon) on the LaunchKit sites.

LaunchLogs

Google Analytics is a great first-step for log/usage analysis but we have also built custom tools for more detailed tracking of key referrers, advertising programs beyond Google, search terms that lead users to your site and more.

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3rd Party Libraries

Prototype

Prototype is a great library of Javascript routines for building rich apps in the browser. Some of the better information on using Prototype can be found here at particletree.com.

UrlRewriting.Net

UrlRewriting.Net is a great library for ASP.NET that makes it easy to build websites with pretty URLs (with no ugly .ASPX extensions in the URLs). By default, it supports regex matching on incoming URLs so its easy to set it up to operate much like Apache mod_rewrite.