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Which Development Product will You Suggest Your Boss? Today I was asked to help in a decision making of buying products for developers in a company that I’m consulting for. The manager gave me the information about his budget and asked for suggestions. I suggested two products which doesn’t exists in the arsenal of tools at that company – one for developers productivity and refactoring and the second for profiling the developers products. If you got a budget for buying a product for developers, which...
.NET Reflector is Becoming a Paid-For Product Red Gate announced a few days ago that .NET Reflector will become a commercial product from the end of February 2011. Here is what Neil Davidson, Red Gate’s Co-CEO, wrote as an open letter to the .NET community: ”Red Gate has announced that it will charge $35 for version 7 of .NET Reflector upon its release in early March. Version 7 will be sold as a perpetual license, with no time bomb or forced updates. As many of you know, our original intention was...
Detecting HTML5 Features Using Modernizr In the past I wrote a post about using feature detection instead of browser detection when writing web applications/sites. There are frameworks like jQuery that do that for you and all you have to do is to use them. There are other frameworks like Modernizr that are specializing in testing the current browser you use in order to detect whether it supports upcoming features such as HTML5 or CSS3 . What is Modernizr? Taken from Modernizr site: “ Modernizr is...
EFProf – Profiler Tool for Entity Framework One of the important tools in your tool arsenal when you develop with an ORM tool is a profiler. Like SQL profiler to a SQL Server DBA an Entity Framework profiler is a must have tool to Entity Framework developer. The main reasons to acquire such a tool are to understand what is going on underneath the hood in the query engine and for performance tuning. If you think that you can use Entity Framework without knowing what it is committing to database then...
Web Platform Installer – Web Installation on Steroids One of the most annoying things that I’m sometimes get stuck with is to install my machine with the latest components. Trying to grab all the installation packages for every application or library that I need can be a very painful thing and also consumes a lot of time. This is the reason that a tool like Web Platform Installer was very welcome to my arsenal of tools. In the post I’ll describe what is the Web Platform Installer and show a scenario...
Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 A few months ago I bought a new mouse. I needed a mouse that could also act as a presenter tool in order to assist me in my presentations that I am delivering from time to time. So I talked to some people and asked for their recommendations. I also searched for details about presenter tools in the internet and in the end I found the Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 very suiting for my needs. The Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 is more then...
New Release for VelocityAdminShell I’ve published a new release for the VelocityAdminShell . This new release includes a configuration form to enable the configuration of the shell (instead of doing it manually in the config file). The following figure shows the current configuration form: I also changed the look and feel of the shell and added tabs for different operation types: Thanks to Eyal Vardi for the inputs regarding the VelocityAdminShell . You can download the new release of VelocityAdminShell...
VelocityAdminShell is Published on CodePlex I’ve published the VelocityAdminShell tool that I wrote about yesterday on CodePlex . You can download the project with its source code from here . As I wrote, if you have any suggestions for improvement or you encounter bugs please contact me in the blog’s contact form or from the CodePlex tool’s site. I’ll keep on updating the tool in the near future. Enjoy!
Velocity Administration Console Lately I’ve been working on a small administration console project for Microsoft project code named Velocity . If you don’t know, Velocity’ s administration is being done with PowerShell . I decided to build a console that will do the same thing but in Windows Forms . The following figure shows the tool I’ve built: You can download the tool from here . Pay attention that the project is still in develop so bugs can occur! The following things are changes you need to...
How to Write Your Own Code Snippets IntelliSense code snippets are a very useful tool for developers in order to write code faster.In the post I’m going to describe how to write your own code snippet and to show an example of a code snippet that I wrote which divides classes by regions in the style that I like. What are Code Snippets? IntelliSense code snippets are basically Xml files that have a strict schema and have a .snippet file name extension. They are used by developers for faster code writing...
Deep Code Analysis With NDepend A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Patrick Smacchia , a C# MVP, that I read his articles on one of my favorite blog sites – CodeBetter . Patrick asked me if I want to evaluate NDepend professional edition. Without thinking twice, I agreed and this post is a review of the product. I want to thank Patrick for the opportunity to evaluate a professional product which I wanted to test for a while (I downloaded the evaluation edition a few weeks before Patrick contact me...