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One of my big disappointments in the ASP.NET community is the lack of good, free, open source server controls. I know we all use controls like masked text boxes and date picker controls.. so why aren’t there more community efforts out there? Bringing in a commercial add-in is often not only a PITA in most companies, but since most of the component makers are in an arms race of features they tend to be huge, bloated, and overly complex. (and usually source costs even more or is not even available)

Now I know there are some great free controls out there, metabuilders comes to mind, but I wish there was a coordinated open source effort to create all the controls that the framework forgot. (combo boxes, datepickers, masked textboxes, etc)

Maybe one day when I have more time I will try to get something going.

-James