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Cool Tools
2013
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Tools And Frameworks for Unit Testing in .NET for 2013
in “ Art of Unit Testing 2nd Edition ” I am now at work on the tools and frameworks appendix. It currently includes the following sections: • Isolation frameworks Moq Rhino Mocks Typemock Isolator NMock ? NUnit.Mocks…
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Six Tools for managing multiple remote desktop sessions on windows and mac
I use both mac and windows at work, and I do a lot of remote desktop stuff as well. I asked on twitter “what tools would you recommend on windows to manage remote desktops?” here is the list I got: RemoteNG - oldie but…
2012
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FakeItEasy or NSubstitute? Which should I use for samples in art of unit testing 2nd edition?
In my upcoming 2nd edition of art of unit testing , I’ve decided not to use RhinoMocks (too old and stuck in the past), or Moq (although widely used, I think it represents the past, not the future) for examples of an…
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[Cool Tool] Chocolatey for windows is what you will not live without in two years
OK, the name isn’t amazing, but having lived in linux land for a while now, and on mac too, the one thing I miss in windows is a no-hassle, dialog-free installation experience, that I can just do using a command line.…
2011
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[Cool Tool] Checking Out VsVim
I've been using VsVim in my latest TDD course. It's a simulator of Vim keybindings for visual studio. I've been using vim since january 2011, so almost a year now, and i've come to really like the power you get when…
2010
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Case Study: SmartInspect in the real world
as part of the last case study , I’ve also implemented another tool in our real world project – SmartInspect : a tracing tool. The developer had also given us this tool free of charge to do a case study with, which I…
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Case Study: CryptoLicensing + CryptoObfuscator in the real world
I’ve reviewed CryptoLicensing last year , and in the past few months, I’ve had the chance of implementing both CryptoLicensing and CryptoObfuscator for .NET in a real commercial project . the developer had given us free…
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Things to install on a new machine – revisited
as I prepare to get a new dev machine at work, I write the things I am going to install on it, before writing the first line of code on that machine: Control Freak Tools: Everything Search Engine – a free and amazingly…
2009
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web related graphics and animation generators online
wow. I didn’t even know these sorts of sites existed! Isn’t the web great for really small niche markets? (via Jason )
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Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET
I was recently asked to review a licensing solution – CryptoLicensing for .NET (disclosure – I was paid for my time , the time it took to review it, but had only committed to doing a fair and balanced review). After…
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Code Formatter plugin for live writer - updated
Looks like the Code Formatter plugin for Live Writer has been updated. Gonna give it a try.
2008
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StackOVerflow Notifier
Dror Helper just created a utility that tracks your StackOverflow ranking. SO, if you're an ego freak, go get it .
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Tools site is down – here is a temporary replacement page
My Tools site is down so here is a temporary (and minimal) page with download links to the tools. I need to work on it to add descriptions and more, but if you know what you want to get, this should be enough for now .…
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Deadlock detectors
This is a pretty interesting approach to a deadlock detector: It uses sos (son of strike debugger) and automates it under the covers and parses its output to discover runtime deadlocks on processes. At the comments…
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Non Paged CLR Host
Sasha and Alon have released an open source project called " Non Paged CLR Host " which has the following benefits(quoted): Applications will benefit from no paging during normal operation. Even if other applications…
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A sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder
Here's a sneak preview of the upcoming Typemock Racer product, which I'm currently working on. We should be out in private CTP in a couple of weeks I hope. Typemock Racer tries to solve one huge problem for developers…
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Introducing Audibler: Download your audible audio books DRM free (and into Zune as well)
When I first heard of Audible.com (in one of the TWiT shows ) I was very excited that I could get lots of stuff to hear on my mp3 player. Then I started using it. And was terribly annoyed . I couldn't use the downloads…
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Extending Depender with your own custom dependency rules
In the previous post I introduced Depender , to help find dependency issues in your code (usually for testing). I've added extensibility to it so that you can write your own rules. If you download depender there will…
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Introducing Depender - Testability Problem Finder
Update : Here's how you can extend Depender with your own dependency rules Depender is a tool that I created to illustrate several concepts both for my book and both for my training classes. I think it should prove…
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Generate an object model from an XML string
Tommy sent me an email: "I've written a little web application that could come in handy for your many projects. It generates the C# code needed to read and write the given xml (Just past some xml in the textbox). You…
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Fluent XML Library - Ultra cool, short and weet
Oh, next time I'm going to generate XML, remind me to use Mark Resmussen's ultra cool XML Fluent Interface library . her'es a killer snippet: XmlOutput xo = new XmlOutput() .XmlDeclaration() .Node("root").Within()…
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Ad hoc Unit Tests with Snippet Compiler
If you're a fan of snippet compiler (if you're not you should seriously check it out)Travis Illig published a little template for writing Typemock Isolator test inside this handy little tool. the reasons you'd need a…
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SharedView might be the remote-collaboration tool I was looking for
Thanks to Scott I've found out about MS SharedView - which allows you to share your screen with up to 15 users. Currently in beta 2 and free, you can download it here . "Connect with up to 15 people in different…
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vLite allows you to create a stripped down vista version
Now, this is interesting . how would you like to cut down the size of a vista install to up to 10% of it's "full" size? vLite will create an install image of Vista with your choice of features stripped out of it, from…
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BitDiffer, anyone?
Note to self: check out BitDiffer . Looks pretty awesome. "Ever wonder what really changed in that DLL you are about to release to production? Would you like to check a 3rd party library for breaking changes before…
2007
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Quick Fix File: Turn Zoom into Scroll on MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 Keyboard
Like Oren , I like my MS Keyboard, but I hate it having this useless, oh so very useless, zoom key in the center of it. I also found out about this hack on how to get the zoom key to be scroll up-down key , but it…
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IL Debug Visualizer for Compiled Lambda Expressions, MethodBase and DynamicMethod
Mark Watts just emailed me with cool news. He took the Dynamic Method visualizers I worked on and created a version of them that will also work and show the IL on Lambda Expressions. here's the full list of changes he…
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Pimp My Visual Studio
I'll have to check out this list of things to make a Visual Studio Usable system (that is, what you should really install after you have Visual Studio installed to make you more productive). Basic stuff like unit…
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Essential Software to Install on a new computer
Update : Be sure to check out the comments on this post as well. Some good recommendations there (aside from the regular "just use linux" trolls) I recently got a new laptop. here's what I installed in the first couple…
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Regionerate - Free Code Layout Addin for VS.NET
Omer Rauchwerger is a reader of this blog. A while ago he sent me an email about a new addin for visual studio he created called Regionerate which was in private beta at the time. Unfortunately it ended up in my spam…
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Get latest version on checkout with team system source control
The TFS team over at Sela , spearheaded by Tal Gur Arie, had developed a little addin that solves the issue with not getting the latest version of a source file when checking it out. They have their reasons for doing it…
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Real time data on your blog pages visitors
I really like http://whos.amung.us It shows real time data on who's on your site\blog right now by simply using a little gif file on each page (in the blog template, for example. here are the real time stats for my…
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Tips for Testable code and for testing legacy code
I was consulting for a project today, and I was helping the team figure out how to test a method inside their business logic. Here's the thing - it was one of the least testable method's I've seen. It took me about 4 -5…
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Utilities and apps to look at
List of apps I'd like to remember, courtesy of DonationCoder's lively forums Toddler Keys - Makes your keyboard "child friendly" LaunchBar Commander Dialog Extender Utilities : Already found my favorite, and bought it…
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Train to be a Keyboard Master with Keyboard Jedi
Key Jedi allows learning and training to use keyboard shortcuts. It can be used in presentations, screencasts and videos, as well as when working with someone else on the same machine to teach new shortcuts. It shows a…
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Easier Winform UI Thread Safe Methods with DynamicProxy2 and Osherove.SimpleInterception
Wouldn't it be cool if you could write something like this in your winform apps? : [RunInUIThread] protected virtual void DoSomeUIStuff() { this.Text = "hey" } Download the binary files from here. (here are the source…
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UDPixel - repairs Dead Pixel on TFT Screens
This program helps to locate and fix LCD screens dead pixels. You can fix the stuck pixels by calling them to do rapid changes. You need to run this program for a couple of hours. There is no warranty on the result, but…
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Remote Pair Programming with collaborative text editors
Pair Programming when working with remote teams is somewhat of a problem, until you start counting in the fact that Collaborative Text Editing between remote location is supported in some text editors as a primary…
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The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities - By DonationCoder.Com
The guys over at DonationCoder.com are doing a great job of keeping the spirit of "I'm a geek who loves to hoard and try every kind of software that ever existed, hopefully free" alive. As one of those "I'm a geek who…
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NDepend 2.0 - Beast, not Beauty
NDepend 2.0 just came out , and it *looks* to be a really awesome tool for understanding your's architecture and status, especially dependencies between components, in a visual way. But from the demos on the site, it…
2006
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Total Commander - The Ultimate File Manager?
A friend asked what is that weird program I use to manage files. I told her it was Total Commander , my true love when it comes to file management. It helps me use FTP, Multiple rename, zip, rar and synchronize folders…
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HnD - Open source forums and support backed by LLBLGen 2.0
Frans Bouma , one of the people I highly respect in the blogsphere as an architect and ISV (Built LLBLGen - one of the strongest ORMs out there for .NET) Just released HnD , which stands for Help and Discuss - an open…
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Cool Promotion - Automise for $20 for 24h window
A little bird tells me that in a few hours you'll be able to get Automise (that's the system admin's version of FinalBuilder - my favorite build automation tool) over here for a 90% discount - less than $20 instead of…
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TFS Permission Manager Tool
Leon just posted a new tool he developed called "TFS Permission Manager" for managing Team Foundation Server permissions in an easier fashion. Way to go! Here are some benefits in the tool: "Using this tool you can: Add…
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Managing team build files sucks a little less with Attrice SideKick for VSTS
Oh, I could have seriously used the Team System Add-on from Attrice's SideKick project last week at TechEd when one of my Demos Broke. The add-in allows version control operations for selected build type to be performed…
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SQL Refactor looks cool
If you do any work with stored procedures and SQL databases, SQL Refactor should look very interesting to you...
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MassDataHandler: generate test data to help with data layer testing
Yet another tool to help with integration tests against the database layer(got this by email: "I wanted to let you know about an open source tool I created to help unit test the data access layer.…
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Introducing Perf+ , A better perfmon
Perf+ is an advanced free extension of perfmon with a tabbed interface and a set of predefined counters you can modify and share with others. Great for real time viewing of a host machine's stats quickly. Still in the…
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Regulazy 1.0.3 Released
The monthly iteration release of Regulazy is up over here . Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy "point and click" user interface , and allows creating regular expressions for…
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[Cool Tool] NetSetMan - switch network configurations in a single click
Here's a great little program that saves many lots of headaches when I take my laptop to different places. It's called NetSetMan (as in "Network Settings Manager"), and it has a free version with 99% of the features…
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Must watch: Working with Sysinternals tools at DnrTV
Speaking of DnrTV, you really have to watch the show where Scott Hanselman shows off how to use various tools from SysInternals . These tools could seriously save you hours of work, sweat, tears, blood and ink, and they…
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Enter the Larkware Contest
If you haven't already entered, you should join the larkware 1,000 contest . It's pretty darn easy to join, and the prizes are awesome. In fact, I'll be joining my self by posting a link to a useful site. here's how you…
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TorPark - New anonymous, secure, free, USB-Key friendly browser
There's a new "Secure" browser out there, based on Firefox, called TorPark . "TorPark is a program which allows you to surf the Internet anonymously. Download Torpark and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any…
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BetaMarker.com - Early adopters welcome
This site was just launched , and I got an email from a friend who is connected to the site owners. Sounds like it might have some appeal to us early adopters: Beta Marker . I'm thinking -- del.icio.for early adopters:…
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Regulazy 1.02 is out and about
There's a new monthly version (1.02) out of Regulazy. You can grab it over here . (if the link is broken try http://tools.osherove.com/ ) Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy…
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Cool Tool: vRD - Multiple Remote Desktops in one program
If you do a lot of administration on remote machines concurrently, you might know that there are some programs out there that allow you to control multiple remote desktops under the same window. One of the best free…
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Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows - Updated
It's back, and it's bigger than ever, tighter around the edges, and storms into your hard drive faster than you can say "RegEdit". It's Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows If…
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16 Features in Resharper Every Developer Needs To Learn
Jeffery has a nice list of the features in Resharper he uses most often in his daily coding. The list has screenshots and shortcut descriptions, so it's a good cheat sheet for anyone wanting to get into Resharper fast…
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Cool Tool: Direct Access - Keyboard macros everywhere
Direct Access seems like a nice little utility I could use in my day to day work: from LarkWare : "Here's how it works. You define "actions" within the direct access interface. An action can be opening a Web site,…
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SharpRobo - Winform UI Unit Testing made easier?
Hmm. SharpRobo seems like something that might *start* to satisfy those who just can't do without UI Testing and have been looking for a way to do it from within their unit test frameworks (such as NUnit or FIT):…
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Two cool utils: InstallPad and Live Writer
Two things are on my plate today (small as they may be..) Live Writer is my new blog post writer, and it's pretty cool (via Scott ). Main reasons: It has spell checking built in, and it posts nicely into Community…
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Sanjay's cool tools
So I don't forget, Sanjay's cool tools category has lots of, well, cool tools I need to check out when I have time.
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Regulazy Facts
Over 700 downloads in the past 7 days since the announcement . Over 250 Unit Tests that run in under 3 seconds together(not for the UI, but for all the logic) Next iteration release: August 10th. 1 major bug - reported…
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Control Google Maps by Tilting your ThinkPad
" Another day, another hack . Here's a demo that controls Google Maps using ThinkPad Hard Drive Active Protection sensor. You tilt your ThinkPad and Google Maps roll over. Pretty cool." Oh, this is very very cool!…
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CodeRush 2.0 First Impressions - A Nice Surprise
Through Kim's blog , I've found out that CodeRush and Refactor 2.0 have finally been released. You can catch the scoop and the immediate download links on the CodeRush blog (as well as some installation notes here). But…
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[Cool Tool] CodeSmart 2007 for VB6 - The Killer Addin for VB6
The guys at AxTools are at it again, with CodeSmart 2007 for VB6 . If you still do VB6 development (and I know plenty of places that still do (mostly because they have no choice), this is the tool you'd want to get. The…
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[Cool Tool]Unlocker : Unlock Files/Folders without going nuts
Jean Paul Boodhoo has a nice tidbit about a new free tool called Unlocker that helps detect and actually unlock "locked" files in Windows. You know, those ones that seem to be held by some unknown entity on your…
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[Cool Tool] ASP.NET Enterprise Manager on Steroids: Ajax, Multiple DB types, And open source!
What would the ASP.NET Enterprise Manager look like with Ajax Support? The VisualWebGui guys have a clue. They built a new one from scratch with their cool technology for making web from winforms, and they even made it…
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[Cool Tool] Free Intellisense for SQL Query Analyzer!
Thank you Red-Gate ! Their "Intellisense for Query Analyzer" is free for download until September 1st! "No time-bombs, no restrictions" This is a must have cool tool. Mucho Appreciato! [via ScottGu]
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SQLOne - SQL Converter for many DB Dialects?
SQLOne looks like a good idea: " SQLOne Console 3.0 - Automatic SQL conversion utility to translate SQL queries between the dialects used by Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and pure ANSI…
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Cool Freeware: Visual Task Tips
This little freeware program looks nice! Thanks for the hint, Ido . I think I'll install this today.
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Review: SmartInspect - Logging for .NET, Java and Delphi
This week I’ve decided to promote the Ad for Gurock Software’s SmartInspect on my blog's front page. In this fair review you’ll read why. The idea behind SmartInspect is to give you rich tracing abilities from multiple…
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Debugger Visualizer for MethodInfo, DynamicMethod, and MethodBase available for download
When I was preparing (still am) for my TechEd talk about Reflection 2.0, one of the coolest things I found was this nice DynamicMethod visualizer posted as a code sample. Taking apart the code for this project was a…
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"Cool Commands" for VS 2005 is a free and useful little Add-in!
If you're using VS 2005 I highly recommend downloading and installing the nice "Cool Commands" addin, which you can learn about and download here . It adds some really handy right click menus to VS including (my…
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KeePass + FolderShare = Store your passwords securely and share them at the same time
I've been using KeePass for the past month or so and I love it. It stored all my passwords in encrypted form and I use FolderShare to automatically synchronize my passwords with all my machines. I only need to remember…
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SqlAssist is to VS SQL text as CodeSmart is to VB 6 code - Wonderful
Wow, what a cool addin for VS 2005 to add Intellisense to your SQL queries! Check out SqlAssist [via Hannes ] Best of all - it's in beta testing and is free to download! some of the coolest features: Intellisense for…
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Need an online version of Word or Excel? Try Writely and iRows.
Ever wondered what an online version of Word might looks like? Try Writely . How about Excel? Well, the (Israeli) folks who brought you the coolest online calculator , now bring you iRows . I'm impressed.
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Amazoner and iTunes
Looks like Dave Burke took my Amazoner application to search and link to Amazon books online, and modded it to help him put his iTunes Library online. He has some nice things to say about my code, but that's just…
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VMware Server to become a *free* product
"Anyhow, here's the deal: as of Monday, VMware is releasing the beta version of a new product, VMware Server, which is the successor to their existing VMware GSX Server product. VMware Server will be a free product for…
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HanselMinutes on CI tools, and a free EBook on Agile Skills
The new Hanselminutes is all about Continuous Integration tools. Should be worth a listen! Also, via David Hayden , I stumbled upon this freely downloadable EBook (though you can also buy it at Amazon in Print) called…
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Why Reboot? This software will help with the answer.
Why Reboot? - Nifty little application that displays the pending file operations on your computer, so you know just why it's demanding a reboot after a software install. [via Larkware ] Nice!
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FixIt Reader - Possibly the Adobe Acrobat killer we've been waiting for
I just discovered this cool, free and fast PDF reader, which looks like (finally!) an Adobe Acrobat Reader Killer. Adobe Acrobat has been getting on many people's nerves, with all its plugins, commercials and long load…
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A solution for easier ASP.NET Unit and GUI testing?
"Integrating NUnit with Ruby/Watir Unit Tests" "Testing ASP.NET web applications can be a painful process. Wouldn't it be nice to have a unit testing framework that covered both the API and the web UI testing in an…
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Code Partitioning - The next big thing in protecting .NET code?
The guys at SecuredDimentions have something new up their sleeve. If you don't know them, it's because they are relatively new on the market. What they've designed is what seems to be a very good way to prevent…
2005
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NUnit 2.2.4: .NET 2.0 Support, Extensibility Support and new Asserts and Attributes
Got this from Charlie Poole today: We just released NUnit 2.2.4, the first production release of NUnit since 2.2 was released in August 2004. That means it's the release we recommend you use now - as opposed to all the…
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FinalBuilder 4.0 is out - Lightweight, Scalable Build Managment Tool
The good people at VSoft have done it again. FinalBuilder 4.0 is out and running , and I couldn't be happier advertising for it on this blog. One of the best products I've used for build management, and it gets better…
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A Better XML Visualizer
Here's another cool visualizer for your use. It's a better XML Visualizer than the one currently in the VS IDE, written by Howard van Rooijen .
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Ask The Pros: Debugging Tips
The latest round of VisualStudioHacks.Com 's "Ask The Pros" article is out, and this time it's about debugging . While I did contribute my own tips into the mix, I was pleasantly surprised how much new information I…
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Announcing Regex Kit: Regular Expression Visualizers for VS 2005
I've been hibernating with everything relating to regular expressions for quite sometime now. I'm still working on the Regulator 3.0 (built on .NET 2.0), but for now, I thought I'd release these: Regex Debug Visualizers…
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[Larkware Contest Winner] Snapper: Snap your daily computer usage
The Larkware Coding Contest came to an end this week , and boy, were they giving out some grand prizes. As a judge I couldn't participate in it, but I did get to check out all the cool stuff. The first place goes to…
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Test Driven .NET's new version supports all versions of VS 2005 including Express
Jamie Cansdale is a a pretty sharp guy. He's released the latest version of TestDriven.NET, one of the most productive addins for testing and debugging your code, and it works with Visual Studio 2005. Not only does it…
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"Ask The Pros" article about favorite .NET addins at VisualStudioHacks.Com
There's a new article series over at www.VisualStudioHacks.com (the book) called "Ask the pros". It asks various personalities in the .NET world about their favorite hacking tools and methods with VS.NET. I'm proud to…
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FinalBuilder is approaching version 4, and still the coolest build tool out there
If you haven't heard of FinalBuilder yet, there's no better time than now. Especially with Microsoft's new "If you want a build process, you'll wanna get VSTS" way of doing things. In short, it the most usable and…
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Amazoner 1.0.1 - Larger Images for Books and a dedicated website
A new version of Amazoner is out. Not many changes, but the main thing is that the book images are now bigger, oh and it's compiled using Visual Studio 2005 RTM out 2 days ago (relies on .NET 2.0 final). I Created a…
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Introducing Amazoner: Create Amazon Associate Links with ease
Update (30/10/2005) There's a new version of this tool available . This tool also has a dedicated site from now on. For the latest version downloads and information, go to this URL: / Thanks, Roy. A while ago I posted…
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Hear MSDN webcasts on your favorite audio player
How to download MSDN webcasts and listen on your MP3 player - level 100
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Picasa "Hello" is cool + a nice tip about using Hello
I you haven't tried " Hello " from Picasa, you should seriously give it a try. It's a way to share pictures and chat with your friends at the same time. Sounds lame but it's actually pretty nice. You can also blog…
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Resharper 2.0 for VS 2005!
If you're in love with Resharper as I am, you'll be glad to read that the new Resharper 2.0 public access download (beta beta!) is now supported in VS 2005 as well!! and some very cool new features ! (via Peter Provost )
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[Tool] Convert NUnit tests to Team System Tests
" Jim Newkirk has released an alpha version of a utility to convert NUnit tests to VSTS tests . What he doesn't mention in the post is that he's using GAT to integrate this conversion functionality into VS05." [via…
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ComputerZen: Top 120 cool tools every developer must have
Scott Hanselman has updated is " All time amazing super cool tools list " and its time for all of us to sit back, take a good look and try to lineup what the pros are recommending. You need to be a tool geek to love…
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LibCheck: List breaking changes between assembly versions
Another cool tool I'll need to check out from the BCL team: LibCheck "Basically, LibCheck analyzes a version of a library, and compares it to another version of the same library. It then reports the differences ... in a…
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Flickr! - get ready for Flippr! (and a new Israeli dev blogger)
Found this guy, Ohad's weblog, on blogger.com through Ynet.co.il. He's a developer and has some small little utilities to download. For example, he wrote (in C++!) a utility that grabs process info off Google on each…
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Announcing: The Regulator Logo Contest
All details on this and more that you wanted to know: /logocontest Feel creative? Got Illustrator or Photoshop? Feel like donating back to the community? Wanna free cool .NET component? If you answered "yes", read on.…
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Oracle Tools for VS.NET
Seems like this is worth a look if you're doing any work in oracle. tightly integrated "Add-in" for Visual Studio .NET that brings the power of the Oracle Database to .NET developers! Use the Oracle Explorer to browse…
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Ajax.NET - I'm impressed!
I am totally impressed with Ajax.NET . And I'm not even a web programmer at heart :) If you're doing ASP.NET development and find you need to do a lot of rich UI with various asynchronous things going on - this should…
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[CoolTool] ASP.NET Development Helper
If you're an ASP.NET developer - this tool should save you many hours of debugging and configuration testing. A LOT. It's a browser helper object for IE that shows you lots of interesting stuff about your ASP.NET page.…
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Google Web Accelerator
OK, has anyone checked out the new Google Web Accelerator application? I guess this NY times is not so off track after all... Gates should get busy quick.
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Regulator 2005 & GUI threads goo- news on both?
I've kept mostly quiet for the past N weeks because of holidays+illness. It gave me time to geek out and start working on a fresh new version of The Regulator (aptly dubbed "Regulator 2005"). Boy am I a happy camper.…
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[CoolTool] SWExplorerAutomation: Automate web GUI unit testing for IE
Got this in the email a week or two ago: Hello Roy, Have you seen SWExplorerAutomation ( http://home.comcast.net/~furmana/SWIEAutomation.htm ). It allows to create an object model for any Web application developed with…
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[CoolTool] Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager
Use this application to backup and restore presentation, pictures, songs and applications from and to USB Flash Drive devices and take them with you. Use USB Flash Drives to store personal data, to keep your network…
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Taking notice of Lucene: A searching & indexing library
Lucene is an indexing search engine. It's in Java, but it has ports to other languages including several for .NET . One of those several, dotLucene looks very well maintained and some great demos appear on the site. So…
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[CoolTool] FinalBuilder 3.0 - the ultimate build management and automation tool
FinalBuilder is out with version 3.0 I first learned about this tool from Mike Gunderloy(Larkware) about a year or so ago. This is one of the coolest and most productive tools I know to manage and execute automated…
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How most developers don't give a damn about productivity
One of the things I couldn't do at my last job was deliver training and consulting on non-Microsoft technology projects. I find myself these days teaching Agile concepts for developers in C/C++, Java and .NET. Each of…
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[Cool Tools] Code metrics, dependencies and more metrics
Ohad is much a tool freak like me, only less in the IDE space. He just posted a very useful blurb about some tools a lot of projects could use. Do you find yourself asking the following questions ? – Which code most…
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[CoolTool] WinDirStat
WinDirStat is cool, free and just saved me 6 Gigs of HD space. It also uses the now famous "TreeMap" visualization scheme to show you how your disk looks logically.
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JetBrains .NET Profiler
Welcome to JetBrains .NET Profiler Early Access Program (EAP) ! - Looks like the JetBrains folks are cooking up another utility. Open beta, so go download if you're interested. (via Matt Berther ) [via Larkware ]
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A new face lift for AxTools CodeSmart
One of my all time favorite addins for VS.NET/VB6 just got another face-lift(I especially like the C++ additions): We are pleased to announce that we have just released CodeSMART 2005 for VS.NET. Packed with many…
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[Cool Tool] How could I miss Copernic Desktop Search?
How could I miss this gem ? All this time it was there, waiting, free , and apparently just as good, if not better, than the other desktop search tools. I should spank myself. "I've been a Copernic Desktop Search user…
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[Cool Tool] XML Visualizer for Visual Studio .NET 2003
Just got an email from a guy named Michael Bouck about a cool new addin he made. Perhaps he should have added it to Project Distributor as well?: "Hi Roy, Love your blog feed -- keep it up! I noticed a while back that…
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Some news from the wild
- Udi shares his thoughs on maintaining legacy code without unit tests and about Mock objects ( here and here ). Interesting stuff. Nothing too new here, but some great concepts one needs to keep in mind at all times…
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Zanebug v1.4.3 - a better NUnit GUI?
I really need to take a look at this tool . For now - here's the announcement of the newest version. Feel free to comment your thoughts on this toos on this post. "Greetings! To bring in the New Year, a new version of…
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[OT] Some free time coming soon
I'm finally gonna get some more free time in the near future, so I'll be starting work on a newer version of The Regulator . Stay tuned for more. I'm listening for any cool feature requests BTW.
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Is PostXing gonna solve my blogging needs?
I'm just testing out PostXing via the recommendation of Darren . If this works, I'm thinking this is a pretty cool blogging application. It even allows you to cross-post and upload images. Except - no spell checking?…
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The Regulator featured on Channel 9
Josh Ledgard pinged me to let me know that he showed The Regulator on this Channel 9 video , along with PInvoke.Net , as two samples of community built helpful applications. Coolness! One thing to note is that Josh…
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More free cool components from SharpTools
"Hi Roy , Writing as a followup to your blog about our freeware developer tools in October - thanks for spreading the word about us! We've done almost 100 freeware developer downloads a day since then, btw, and are glad…
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More cool tools, and a cool Add-in for C++
Lots of cool tools in this nice blog post . I am reminded again of the chalkTalk application by Billy Hollis which is cool for presentations. Another cool tool I discovered is Visual Assist-X which works for all…
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TestDriven.Net version 1.0 is out (with a new site design as well)
Jamie Has Finally released the long anticipated version 1.0 of the TestDriven.Net add-in (Formerly called "Nunit-Addin") and has a brand new spiffy site design to go along with it. If you don't know what this is you…
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Cool Tools Every .Net Developer should be aware of
Wow. I have lots to write about my past week, but first I owe a list of cool tools to the attendees of the .Net Deep Dive event in Israel from yesterday. Here's the list of tools I showed: (*== free) CodeSmart (add-in)…
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IntelliJ IDEA keeps getting better
While VS.Net 2005 tries to keep up, IntelliJ IDEA (for Java) continues to improve itself with loads of very cool, very powerful stuff , and be (in my mind) the best IDE on the market today for productivity coding (sadly…
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BlogMatrix: RSS news reader with podcasting reception abilities.
David Janes sends word of his new RSS news reader: BlogMatrix . Here's what the site says. Notice that theres podcasting abilities in it as well. Interesting. ( What is podcasting? ) " BlogMatrix introduces Jäger 1.6…
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[Tools and Addins] : SharpTools, web controls and various utilities - free!
Jon Schwartz of " Morrison Schwartz " sent me an email saying he wished he knew about the (now closed) add-in competition , cause he's got a great add-in to put up there. Nevertheless, he sent me a link to his add-in,…
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Unread Gmail messages through an RSS feed? coolness.
Well, not RSS, but Atom. Same difference. I didn't know this ! Cool! (Now they just need to support RSS as well)
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TaskSwitchXP - free, cooler task switching
Ooh! TaskSwitchXP looks cool ! and it's free?? (via The Gunderloy )
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Review - Resharper
I've written a review of Resharper by JetBrains. Read it here . Note that the review is about version 1.02 of the product. version 1.03 has just been released and may contain bug fixes to some of the problems listed in…
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Programs I can't live without
ScottOnWriting asked his blog readers what programs they can't live without. Some great suggestions in there (and i'm not just saying that because The Regulator was mentioned 3 times in the comments ;) ) Here's a…
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WilsonORMapper at version 3.0, and what's an OR mapper anyway?
it's free 50$, it sounds wonderful, and its at a version 3.0(via Mike ) - so its mature enough. I should really give the WilsonORMapper a try. I wonder why COM+ transactions are not supported though. What's an OR…
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Wanna win a free Visual Assist License?
I've noticed that Natty Gur is not only speaking at the users group this Sunday, he's also handing out a free license to Visual Assist on his blog to whoever sends him the most FxCop rules. That's pretty cool!
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Gmail Notifier - by Google, finally
Now this is what I've been waiting for - Google has released a Gmail Notifier utility that runs in the system tray. no more running after free obscure apps that don't work. This one if from the monster itself.
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The Regexinator - VS.Net Addin to search documents using Regex
Found this out through Darren's Regex weblog . The Regexinator looks like a cool idea that someone eventually had to do: It lets you search the active documents using Regex, and when you click on each result you are…
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NUnit 2.2 beta 3 has been released - and some questions
This just in: NUnit 2.2 beta 3 has been released . It fixes several bugs It is able to run under .net 2.0 beta 1 If you were wondering, yes, I've been raising my suggestions about the rollback and database restore…
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MbUnit 2.17 released - with the cool database attributes I talked about
Peli has released the latest version of MbUnit . It has some really cool additions(click the link to read about them), some of them I helped shape. For example - the Rollback and database restore attributes are in there…
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[CoolTool] BlogWave: Scheduled RSS feed generation and publishing from multiple sources
Addy Santo has just published a first alpha of what seems to be a pretty cool tool: BlogWave . Some very cool screenshots and a download link is included. Here are Addy's words: “ This is an alpha (read: mostly…
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New ASP.NET Issue Tracker Starter Kit
There's a new ASP.NET Community starter kit : Issue Tracker (via Early Adopter ). This joins in nicely to something I've been wanting to blog about: there's a real lack of good free issue tracking software. I asked…
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Managed Smart Documents Wrapper
Oh, i know there are some people looking exactly for something like this : Vertigo Software's Managed Smart Documents WrapperT simplifies Microsoft® Office Smart Document Development with a new, object-oriented,…
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[Cool Tool] Dataset Quick Watch "visualizer" Add-in for VS.Net 2003
Finally! someone came up with a way to view the contents of a Dataset object while debugging: The Dataset QuickWatch project allows you to view the contents of a dataset just like the “visualizers” in Whidbey (well,…
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The Regulator gains popularity
When Clemens Vasters was here for the Israel Tech-Ed 2004, he gave some great presentations (which I really should write here some of the notes I've written about them). Other than that I managed to grab him for a…
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Numega DevPartner Profiler - free community edition
There's a free community edition of Numega DevPartner Profiler available for download. Thanks Duncan . Profiling is important and should be at the start of every optimization effort.
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New version for NUnit Add-in
New version of NUNit Addin : Looks like lots of new stuff has been added. Coolness. Thanks Jamie!
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[Cool Tool] NotePad2
[Update: Steve Eichert shows how to make notepad2 replace good ol' Notepad without windows file protection interfering in the process. Thanks!] Just found out this cool little util through the win-tech-off-topic list:…
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Blogsphere viral marketing
Gavin knows how to do viral marketing well . I'm writing this, arn't I? :) [Update] Here's another great viral marketer: “Anyway, John offers an interesting deal on his website. He writes: Imagine you are applying for a…
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[Tool] WMI Strongly Typed Class Generator
WMI rocks, but it's common to be afraid of it. Yosi points to a very cool tool that will help overcome this fear and make working with WMI a little easier: Microsoft (R) Management Strongly Typed Class Generator -…
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New version of Data Access Application Block available
Its the Beta before version 3.1, and I'm still not sure about everything that's new in it, but the site is reporting that this version fixes all the bugs in the earlier version. Download here as for a provider…
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The Regulator 2.0 is out
It's just a beta , and most of the documentation will only be available on the wiki in the coming future, but: -added: installer -added: generate C# or vb.net code from regex(via tools menu) -added: regex Analyzer.…
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[Cool tool] SQLCheck - FREE SQL server performance monitor/screen saver
via Stefano , Very nice: SQLcheck is an interesting (and FREE) Performance Monitor for SQL Server. With this tool, you can investigates, organizes and explains critical information about your server’s hardware,…
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VS-Styler :Toggle and save your VS.Net font and color settings instantly
Jason Olson went ahead and ran with my idea of an IDE add-in that saved your font configuration to pass around, and made it much much better . I'll let him tell about it: Well, VSStyler is now ready for download. It is…
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How CodeRush pissed me off
CodeRush . What can I say? I may be a little less on the objective side, having used CodeSmart for the past several years, but any tool that claims they are the only tool to have a “code templates“ feature , either is…
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CodeRush vs. CodeSmart
CodeRush looks cool, but I still like CodeSmart better. The people at the user group liked it very much as well when I demonstrated it : )
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Tool: IPCheck - Monitor your web server online status
Q : I need a (hopefully)free way to monitor a web farm and know if one of the servers goes offline. A: IPCheck Server Monitor allows you to monitor your server(s) and be notified via email when they are down. The free…
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Interesting stuff I missed this week
I need to remind myself : I need to check out the outlook search plugin P/Invoke Interop Headers for C# - Every tried to write a P/Invoke signature by hand? It can be challenging for some parts of the Win32 API.…
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[Cool Tool] CodeSmith 2.5
Ah. CodeSmith 2.5 is out with some nifty new features . If you don't know what CodeSmith is, you're missing on a very good and productivity enhancing tool, which is freeware. It saves you lots of typing and allows…
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The Regulator featured on RegexLib.com
The Regulator , my Regex testing tool, has been named by Regexlib.com as their “recommended tool for testing regular expressions” and has been put up there in the front page. They also put up a resource page for many…
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[Tool] Cool Font\Colors add-in for VS.NET
Jason Olson took my font settings\Colors settings add-in for visual studio idea, and ran with it. He came up with a pretty cool little add-in , much more “scalable” than mine. Sounds perfect for presentations. Coolness…
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[Tool] QuickJump - very nice and simple VS.Net add-in
( http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/quickjump_net.asp ). With this little tool involved, you can click Alt+G and get a window showing all of the members in the current class. Type a few letters to filter the list, and…
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[Tool] Easier log parsing with Log Parser
Speaking of parsing log files , There's a little known tool called LogParser , and it's from the Microsoft IIS team. This very powerful parser can easily parse various kinds of log files and you can actually query…
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The Regulator Wiki
I've decided to create a Wiki site for The Regulator . Since I can't find the time to create all the documentation myself, I thought if I make this a public thing then people who use this tool can put their knowledge on…
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Moving to RSS Bandit: A simple review
RSS Bandit is my new RSS aggregator.Yep. I just downloaded the latest build and decided that I'm gonna stick with it. I love sharpreader , but there's just too many features missing from it to me. What I like about RSS…
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MyRss.com is to Feedable as...
Well, I'm totally impressed. MyRSS.com (link via Cameron ) are offering the same service as Feedable , only they have an advantage: They automatically create the RSS feed on the fly from the site you give them, whereas…
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Code: CRUD base classes for unit testing
I never felt comfortable with doing unit tests against live database, alas, I feel it is a necessary evil to contend with, because the feedback you get is much more helpful than using Mock objects for such a task, I…
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New year's Nant, pathetic geek style
It's no wonder that I'm sitting here right now, in front of the computer, about to write about the new release of Nant( 0.84 final ), while on the outside, the "party of parties" is going on a block from the office, to…
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Cool handy site: DropLoad
This is another very handy site. Not everyone has an FTP site to upload files for their friends and sometimes hotmail's 1MB size limit just doesn't cut it. The site below will hold the file for 48 hours (and 48 hours…
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Good stuff: New book, Remoting for imbeciles,CodeSmith 2.5 RC1, and OMG 0.2
Julia Lerman points to a hearty recommendation for this book: Code Generation in .Net and I agree. It seems pretty cool. I'll add it to my "really wish we celebrated Xmas" list :) Leon Bambrick writes the Quick and…
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Tool: The complete idiot's add-in for signing your assemblies with a strong name
It is a shame that this ability has not been created sooner (shame on me, that is) but better late than never. Robert Mclaws has just introduced an add-in that allows you to easily manage the fuss that using a strong…
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A New Source Control system
Mike Gunderloy sends word of the Accurev Source control system . Looks pretty spiffy , and I must say they seem very innovative. A couple of points: No VS.Net integration. This is more like the CVS model…
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Service announcement: Feedable and Regulator live again, and Norway tips
Ah. My home machine is back up meaning Feedable is live again and so is The Regulator site. For some odd reason, the only person in the world who can not access these sites is little ol' me from Norway. Ah well, as long…
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[Tool] Object Model Generator
Omer has released a preview version of a tool called “ Object Model Generator ”. His words: “The tool is currently in Preview Version (which is sort of a beta version), and features the following: Typed Elements (incl.…
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[Tool] Scripter allows you to configure a linked Javascript or VBScript file.
Scripter allows you to configure a linked Javascript or VBScript file. Select a script file and Scripter will tell you which files in your Web are currently linking to that script. You can then add and remove files very…
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[Review] CodeSmart.Net
AXTools has been on my “favorite tool makers” list for a couple of years now, if not more (disclaimer: I got a free copy of this product so that I can review it). When I did VB6 development, they came out with one of…
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Plugin frameworks in .Net links
It looks like making applications that can have plugins starting to catch on. But I really didn't get much feedback on my Extensibility Application Block - which enables exactly this . Perhaps I should have renamed it…
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Introducing: Extensibility Application Block
This has been burning inside me for quite a while. Now y'all get to see what I was up to. Download EAP 1.0 Extensibility Application Block overview: One of the demands from a successful application is the abilityto…
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[tool] Total Commander 6.0 is out
My favorite tool on the planet just got an upgrade: Total Commander 6.0 is out . Biggest changes: Directory tabs (more than 2 directories active at the same time - thank god) Config window is now list based and not tab…
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New Regulator version (last one on this blog)
From now on I'll be announcing anything that has to do with The Regulator over on my Regex Blog . So, you'll have to go here to read my announcement and what's new in the newly released version 1.02 beta 2. Also, If…
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2 possible gems in MS downloads
1. Application Signature Builder 1.0 “The Application Signature Builder (ASB) tool is used by software vendors and IT professionals to generate a Signature File containing file attribute information that allows…
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Making the F-lock key on your MS keyboard ON by default
The Furrygoat points to a reg file that allows to to change you F-Lock key (found on the new MS keyboards) to be set to “normal” by default (right now when you boot you have to manually remember and flip it to “on” , if…
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The Regulator 1.02b is out
Download from GDN workspace, or get there from the Regulator Homepage I'd like to thank Mike Gunderloy and SBC for giving me lots of feedback on needed features and broken things. I'd appreciate more feedback from…
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[Document] Port Requirements for Microsoft Windows Server System
This looks like it could come in real handy come time to configure your firewalls for repaved servers. Microsoft released an Excel sheet that lists all the ports that MS products use with this data: port,protocol,System…
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[Tool] - cool (free) news reader
I think I just found my dream news reader: 40tude Dialog It's everything I've wanted in a reader, and the Price is right too! (Free for non commercial use). If you've been using that old reader of yours that looks like…
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C# Programmable Calculator
How cool is a calculator that you can actually program what each button does using C#? Look for yourself: “ C# Programmable Calculator is a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculator with custom buttons programmable in…
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[Tool] The Regulator 1.02a is out
Version 1.02a released! Features: Regexlib.com integration Search and import expressions and examples from RegexLib.com ’s database Post your own regular expressions into regexlib's database, direct from The regulator…
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Regulator Coming along nicely
Regulator is about to pass the 1,200 downloads mark (in 5 days). How cool is that? I've got an update coming. It will now support web searching through a Proxy, which , as I understand, was a small headache for some…
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.NET development - Extra tools?
Arthur Warren asked a simple question on the win_tech_off_topic mailing list: “ While I'm annoying people with questions / polls, I'd be curious to know what extra tools people tend to use. We're not fully buying into…
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The Regulator is BACK!
Thanks to a donation by SyncFusion , we've got ourselves a brand new, non GPL edit control, thus allowing me to re-distribute The Regulator without worries. Thanks, Syncfusion . You made my day :) This is how it looks,…
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[Tool] Introducing The Regulator - advanced regex tool
Yeah, I've been away too long, but here's how I'm making up for it: Introducing The Regulator : An advanced regular expression tool with expert features such as: Syntax highlighting and folding Multi threaded operations…
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Why I like SharpReader better
if there are only two things that are missing from SharpReader , they would be: an “author“ column a “Flag for later“ column That's it. Really. Today, SharpReader is , to me, much more useful that, say, NewsGator or…
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.Net Rocks closure, suggestion, and discovering Salamander. Oh my!
Carl Franklin stopped by for another comment on my pseudo-flaming post about Scoble . What he wrote made me very happy. I'll cite this here because I think those guys deserve a big round of respect from the community…
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[Cool tool] : Visustin - Visually graph your code
I'm currently in the process of reviewing and understanding a bunch of legacy VB 6.0 code. One of the trickiest parts of reviewing such things is getting the “gist” of what's going on on a specific method, or…
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AmazReplacer- revamped
Got this email from ScottW regarding my AmazReplacer tool: Hi Roy, If you are interested, I made a couple of quick tweaks to your Amazon replacer. 1. Allowed AssociateID to be configurable (sorry :) 2. Added handling…
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Visual Basic Resource Kit (C# developers are not banned!)
The download isn't up yet, it takes some time to sign and virus scan an entire CD packaged up as a zip, but the site that details what is included is there! Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit for all the…
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[Cool Tool]: Code Library for .Net
If you are looking for a way to manage your sample code, snippets, articles, etc. get Code Library . It is available in SQL Server and access versions. Very high quality software and FREE. You can even drag links right…
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[New article]: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool (site scraping)
It's been a long and very interesting week for me. I know it's weird hearing that the week I start looking for a new job, but it's true. I've been getting lots of interesting offers from people, especially from the…
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nsh - A tool to run .NET source files like script files.
nsh - A tool to run .NET source files like script files. [ Larkware ] From the site: .NET currently lacks a freely-available scripting language (like WSH VBScript / JScript). nsh allows you to compile and run a .NET…
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Expresso up to version 1.2 already
Looks like Expresso , my tool of choice for working with regular expressions, is already on version 1.2 and I missed it! Hurry up and download it . From what I can see they added : Saving your own library of regular…
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NAnt-addin: another coolness in the making?
Jamie Cansdale , proud parent of the coolness that is NUnit-Addin , is at it again. This time he's making an add-in for the NAnt build framework. If you hurry, he's looking for early alpha testers to help out with the…
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More useful tools (and these are all free)
following in the footsteps of Scott Hanselman who posted his list of Power Tools that he uses, I decided to post a partial list of the ones I use. How mine probably will differ is that mine will be all *free* utilities.…
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A list of regular expression tools
http://www.larkware.com/RegexTools.html Need I say more? Do you know any other good ones?
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Scott Hanselman's C:\Utils
Here are most of the contents of my C:/UTILS folder. These are all well loved and used. I wouldn't recommend them if I didn't use them constantly. Perhaps Roy didn't realize what he was asking for. [ Scott Hanselman ]…
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Cool utility of the day: Code Snippet Compiler
My blogging buddy Jeff Key (maker of the increasingly useful NetPing ) has posted yet another snazzy util, a Code Snippet Compiler . As .NET folks, we all find ourselves creating junk Console applications with a…
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The Final Release of NUnit V2.1 is now available
This is the third major release of NUnit and the second since it was rewritten to take advantage of .NET custom attributes. Highlights of this release include: * Support for the .NET framework versions 1.0 and 1.1 * The…
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A better disposable email
“ I am Jack's single serve email address .” [via HDConsultants ] This disposable email is even better than mailinator , because it actually forwards email to your real address, but you get to say when the fake email…
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NUnit v2.1 RC1 released
NUnit v2.1 RC1 was released last night on SourceForge. From the release documentation: * Support for the .NET framework versions 1.0 and 1.1 * The ability to run test suites across multiple assemblies * New…
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CodeSmart.Net
Is it just me or does CodeSmart.Net seem like one of the coolest VS.Net add-ins around the block? I've been a loyal Axtools customer in my VB6 days and thought the move to VS.Net would leave them little to enhance - but…
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WMI mind blower
If you have ever played around with WMI, specifically in .Net - this will blow your mind: Management (WMI) Extensions for Visual Studio .NET 2003 Server Explorer
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Hard disk Space Managers
Oh, and John Tobler points out some very cool Hard disk space managers . What can I say - I'm a gadget freak!
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Google Calc
Yeah, the Google toolbar is out and final , BUT . Did you know that you can use google as your calculator as well? Just search google for “ 4 * 5 ” :)
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OurNotepad
Marc fest recently contacted me to respond to one of my past posts regarding Chris Pirillo . After that he mentioned the new project he's working on: Our Notepad.com . “ If you want to you can also mention my latest…
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Amazon light
Oh goodie! Looks like my days of browsing Amazon, opening multiple pages at a time, clicking back and forward like crazy are gone, thanks to this cool site: Amazon Light which allows me to do exactly that, only from…
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Cool idea of the day
Andres Aguiar sends word that Joel on Software sends word about Mailinator . Need a disposable email address so you can sign up for some web site, quick? You've already got one, at Paul Tyma's clever Mailinator . Just…
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Cool product of the day: Mathematica.Net
.Net/Link ". NET/Link is a toolkit that integrates Mathematica and the Microsoft .NET Framework . It lets you call code written in any .NET-compatible language from Mathematica in a completely transparent way, and it…
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Yet another new tabbed browser? This one has some new features
Mark Brown sends word of a new breed of browser - using a visual tabbed interface. Some very cool stuff there. Perhps this could be the next buzz? It's called iRider . They have a nice flash demo on their site that is…
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Make your desktop show active RSS content
Doug Thews sent me this regarding the .net desktop contest: " After looking at some of your entries, I decided that I had to write my own ActiveDesktop in ASP.NET to consume RSS feeds and provide other information. I…
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Command line life saver - LinkD
Craig explains and points to a wonderful tool that makes working with long directory names from the command line a breeze - LinkD . This and other useful tools can be found here .
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FeedDemon fixes abound!
Boy. It seems like FeedDemon's new beta release fixed and added a lot of the things that I complained about (I don't attribute this to me, I'm not that much of a self-centered guy!). Great!
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Settings Add-in ver. 1.0 released on GotDotNet
OK. I've released version 1.0 of my VS.NET Settings add-in on GotDotNet. Here's the project's URL. You can download the full setup there ( Currently tested on vs.net 2002 only ). After installation you'll get a new menu…
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FeedDemon Likes And Dislikes
I have to admit it. FeedDemon totally rocked my RSS reading world. I like it even better than NewsGator. The interface(I'm a GUI guy) is very very slick and intuitive, and I really like the browser oane being positioned…
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.Net Shortcuts + Automate GAC and COM operations using this Cool Add-in
Date: 6/2/2003 Author: Enrico Sabbadin Versions: VS.NET Level: Advanced File Size: 315K download Summary: This add-in for VS.NET 2003 automatically: 1) Registers the assembly in the GAC right after it has been built. 2)…
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SP/Invoke -- Stored Procedure Invocation Code Generator for VB, C# and JScript.NET
" SP/Invoke generates code to allow C#, VB or JScript.NET programmers to invoke SQL Server stored procedures as if they were static methods on CLR classes. Posted on the Code Project. Created by Simon Wilson." [via…
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VB6 is not dead, so you'll need this tool
My guess is there is going to be a LOT of VB6'ers around for a long time. I know I'll be doing maintenance on my old VB6 programs for as long as needed. In case you’re in this category, I recommend using CodeSmart 2001…
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CodeSmith goes out to the wild
This is great news! Codesmith is one of the coolest and most time saving tools around.
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Assorted News
Comparison Tool : Beyond Compare is the comparison tool I've used. Araxis Merge 2001 is light years behind in functionality (Although has better UI) Matrix Invitations : If you still haven’t gotten those Matrix…
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I Was Naked
SharpReader rocks! I was running naked for a while(i.e. - No RSS reader - just a browser) and putting my rss-reader back on feels nice and fuzzy.
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About Productivity
Although I've been working for quite some time now as a developer, with several companies and developer teams, I am still amazed at how un-productive some developers can be. As a developer, I always feel I need to know…
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Editor's Choice Awards
OK, I give up. UltraEdit is the best Text editor I've used. The only thing missing from it (that exists in most other editors) is the ability to press ALT and then select text using Block mode. No.You have to enter…
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FeedDemon
FeedDemon looks like a dream RSS reader. It's from the same guy who created HomeSite and TopStyle Pro, so it should be a real treat! The screenshots are mouth watering... (Thanks to Pirillo for the link)
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Blindfolded
Here's something I couldn't figure out: Did you know that Regedit has a "Favories" menu? Yes. That good ol' (hateful, conniving) regedit we all "love". I only realized this a few days ago, thanks to a comment from David…
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Expresso Is Coolness
The more I play with it, the more I learn new stuff. Expresso is a really neat Regular Expression tool.
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InnovaSys SmartTasks Beta Download Available
I requested and got permission to post the following beta material. Being a fond user of some of their other products, I'm posting this. You are all welcome to download and try it out. have fun :) From what I've tried…
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How To Lose Your Job (Unless you are Don)
Don points to the Microsoft Reaserch Downloads site . Now here's a place to spend a week or two....
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The (Almost) Official .Net Tools List Gets An Upgrade
If you haven't checked it out yet, Fabrice's list of .Net companion tools is starting to achive its status as the "Download.Com" of .Net developers. Now you can get updates on it via these RSS feeds . Way to go!
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A Better RegEdit
Here's a cool freeware that made my life easier: Registry Explorer If the link doeasn't work for ya, Here's the D/L link at download.com Just install it and voila! you get a "registry" root inside windows explorer and…
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A Solid Text Editor
After playing with it myself a bit, this text editor seems to have everything I ever wanted in a text editor (And some stuff I didn't think I needed, but did!) including all the keyboard junkie options I dig. Everything…
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KlipFolio
This has a high 'cool' potential Even more so when you consider it has its own RSS/RDF Feed plugin available. (Thanks Scoble )
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Bloody cool: Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers
Synergy -- Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers [Cool Tools] - Posted @ 12:39 pm : PermLink Synergy (GPL) With synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of…
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Free GUI component for VS .NET users
Developer Express have released a cool GUI component XtraNavBar and it's completely FREE if you use VS.NET (You don't need to prove that you use it though.. :) ) It sure looks nice, don't it? Thanks, Dev Express! Get it…