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Sadly, our web server here at work is still running ASP.NET 1.1. Sigh. This hasn't been a problem for me, but this latest project requires a lot of work that we've done in newer versions. Also, I'm growing soft and using the improvements often. As a result, here's a list of improvements I really miss now that I'm having to work in 1.1 again: Code Snippets. I was working on a class to decrypt our query strings, and all of a sudden my snippets are completely missing! Not really, they just didn't exist...

I’m currently working with a data table that stores member information. In the table itself, the member’s first and last names are each stored as the following respectively: mbr_1st_nam mbr_lst_nam I don’t know who chose these names, but this definitely begs for reconsideration. 1 and l are too close in design in some fonts, and when playing around with large amounts of TSQL in terminal like fonts, I don’t want to have to strain or waste additional time wondering if that’s an l or 1. So what do these...