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XMLQuire – a free light XML Editor

This XML Editor is the result of a rethink on one of the very fundamental principles of the way we edit XML text, namely XML formatting.In this editor, no tab or space characters are used for XML indentation. Instead, the left-margin adjusts continuously to ensure the XML always appears properly formatted. The editing experience [...]

How to fix delicious add-on for Firefox 4

Firefox 4 excellent and very fast browser, but many add-ons stopped working. One of them is delicious add-on. Of course is possible to use delicious bookmarklets, but it certainly can not replace all functionality that old delicious add-on has. With the help of a small change in one of the files – it will be [...]

A simple way to run C# code from bat file

I read an interested article demonstrated how to run a bat file with embedded C# code. I repost this example here, because the original post is written in Russian. Despite the fact that there are other more powerful solutions and frameworks to achieve the same goal (e.g. Powershell) – I think the way presented by [...]

How to get rid from annoying IE warning when you debug a Silverlight application

When you try to open a local file, Internet Explorer displays the following warning: "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer.Click here for options…". You may run blocked file (application) by right click on the warning bar ,but doing this [...]

Weekly developer links – 1

SymbolSource.org – The goal of this project is to provide a common debugging symbols and sources server for the most popular open source projects in the .NET ecosphere: NHibernate, Castle, Log4Net, C5, NInject and many other. FluentPath – FluentPath implements a modern wrapper around System.IO, using modern patterns such as fluent APIs and Lambdas.By using [...]

An alternative to WinDbg – Debug Analyzer.Net

WinDbg is a tool that allows you to analyze in detail any program problem, especially when the VS2008 is not available or can not be used. Despite the fact that it has existed for many years, the use of WinDbg can not be called simple and intuitive. So let me present a very interesting alternative.Debug [...]

SlimTune – an open source profiling and performance analysis tool for .NET applications

SlimTune is a open source profiler and performance tuning tool for .NET based applications, written in C#, VB.NET. It provides nice set of powerful features, such as remote profiling, real time results, multiple plugin-based visualizations. The source code of SlimTune is available under the terms of the MIT License.The tool is nice free alternative to [...]

XPath Visualizer

XPath Visualizer is a simple tool, that lets you execute a XPath query and see the results. The .Net 3.5 is required to use the tool . Features: Load the XML document from a filesystem file, from an HTTP URL, type it in, or paste (Ctrl-V). Automatically detect and display the XML namespaces in [...]

WPF performance profiling tools

The WPF Performance Suite is a set of performance profiling tools that allow you to analyze the runtime behavior of your WPF application. This suite includes the following tools: Perforator – for analyzing rendering behavior. Visual Profiler – for profiling the use of WPF services, such as layout and event handling, by elements in the [...]

7 free online editors for your asp.net site (part 2)

This is second part of a two-part article about free online editors.The first part of article can be found here widgEditor widgEditor is an easily installed, easily customizable WYSIWYG editor for simple content. It replaces existing textareas with an improved editing pane using JavaScript . Download widgEitor Demo JWYSIWYG This plugin is an inline content [...]

Explore Silverlight project hierarchy with Silverlight Spy 2

Use the built-in browser to navigate to a web page. Silverlight Spy will automatically pick up any Silverlight application embedded in the page and display it in the XAML Explorer. The XAML Explorer presents the UI element structure of a Silverlight application. Explore the structure and view and edit the details of the selected UI [...]

Sorting System.Collections.Generic.List

This post shows the sorting technique using anonymous delegate that can be implemented in any custom type generic list based on the selected property.For sorting any custom type the class must implement the System.IComparable interface. Now let me assume you have a Person class and if you want to sort the list of person objects [...]

Must Have Tool for ASP.NET Developer

NetFXHarmonics DevServer is a web server hosting environment built on .NET 3.5 using WPF, WCF, and LINQ technologies that allows multiple instances of VS-like web servers to run in parallel. NetFXHarmonics DevServer also includes tracing capabilities for monitoring view status code, date/time, URL, POST data , response data, request headers, response headers, as well as [...]

6 free online editors for your asp.net site

FCKeditor this HTML text editor brings to the web much of the power of desktop editors like MS Word. Download FCKeditor Demo Damn Small Rich Text Editor – very small text editor.Built on top of well known JQuery library. Download Damn Small Rich Text Editor Demo TinyMCE -Cross platform HTML WYSIWYG text editor .Supports templates, [...]

String Format – Online Silverlight Reference

My coworker wrote a interesting silverlight tool ,which allows to you test and play with string formatting syntax.Or you can use it as a interactive online reference when you deal with strings and localization. Check out string format tool

Tag property without inheritance

Tag property is very often used to store a data associated with an object. The simple way to add support for Tag property is to create a base class with the Tag property .I don’t like this solution – the reason is simple .Sometimes I want to inherit from an existing class that doesn’t have [...]

StickyNotes – VS 2008 Addin

StickyNotes is a Visual Studio Addin that provides sticky notes capabilities to project and project items inside VS 2008 IDE. Download StickyNotes Addin Technorati Tags: vs2008,extensibility,addins

PowerCommands Addin for Visual Studio 2008

PowerCommands is an addin for Visual Studio 2008 that contains additional command menu functions for the IDE that most developers would use regularly. The PowerCommands Addin is available along with source code and documentation. Below is a list of the features that you will currently find on in PowerCommands Addin for Visual Studio 2008. Collapse [...]

Measure and record C# code metrics.

SourceMonitor measures and records source code metrics. SourceMonitor parses ASCII source code looking for countable metrics items. As these items are identified, their counts are accumulated for each source code file, and within each function or method. These metrics are then accumulated into summary metrics for all files in each checkpoint.If you develop software with [...]

Mass Downloader For .Net Framework – downloads .NET Reference Source Code in batch

MS has released the .NET Reference Source Code, you can only get it one file at a time while you’re debugging. If you’d like to populate the cache, you’d may use Mass Downloader For .Net Framework which allows you do download .Net Framework source code in batch.The Mass Downloader For .Net Framework enables offline debugging [...]