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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...
OData Explorer One nice tool to use with OData is the OData Explorer . The OData Explorer is a tool that helps to explore OData feeds in a visual way and not by exploring the Atom/JSON responses. You can download the tool from here . Another way to use the tool is by going to the following link: http://Silverlight.net/ODataExplorer . OData Explorer Requirements The tool is a Silverlight 4 project. In order to use it you’ll have to answer these requirements: Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight 4 Developer...
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...
The Regulator Yesterday, I reviewed a regular expression that was written by one of the developers and I needed to improve it since it wasn’t performing the appropriate thing. Since I know The Regulator tool, I opened it and in 5 minutes I came up with this regular expression which validate Israeli phone/cellular numbers: ^0(5[012345678]|6[47]|[23489]){1}(\-)?[^0\D]{1}\d{6}$ With The Regulator I created and checked the expression and then implemented it in the application. What is The Regulator?...
Reading a Xml File in T4 Templates After I wrote the post about the use of T4 templates in EF4 , I played with them for a while (not in EF but generally with T4 templates ). In an old project that I’ve created almost 3 years ago which automated the use of lookup tables I had an enum. That enum was meant to be the connection between an Xml node names and was heavily used in the application. For each Xml node I needed to add an entry in the enum. So I thought what the hell lets see if I could have...
T4 Templates in Entity Framework 4 T4 templates or Text Template Transformation Toolkit is a mean of creating a code generation artifacts which can save a lot of time. This technology is a part of Visual Studio since 2005 but was one of those technologies that were kept in secret by Microsoft . Almost all the code generation stuff that is being used in Visual Studio in technologies such as MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL and many other use those templates as backbone to generate code. In this...
Using External Configuration File for Enterprise Library Configuration One of the things that I always do when I’m using Enterprise Library is to separate its configurations to external configuration file . The reason is very obvious – using Enterprise Library makes configuration files very crowded. Since this is the case, the configuration files become unmanageable and then its time to separate the Enterprise Library ’s configurations from other configurations. How to Use external Configuration...
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...
Entity Framework Mapping Helper Entity Framework Mapping Helper is a very useful tool that was written by the Entity Framework team and can help you to get started with various of mappings scenarios. “ Entity Framework mapping helper lets you create sample mapping files for the set of scenarios you are interested in. It’s a great tool for a deeper understanding for how schema files are defined for complex mapping scenarios in Entity Framework .” (The Entity Framework Mapping Helper description on...
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