A few weeks ago redgate announced that the lovely .NET reflector   is going to cost money, that was a very sad news for every .NET developer out there. But the good news are that a few days after JetBrains announced that they are releasing there own reflector called dotPeek . I personally hate the name but It is a great tool! Much faster great UI and the best thing it has all of the ReSharper shortcuts! So even if you decided to pay for the .NET reflector I think that you should throw it away...

Power Tools for Microsoft VS 2010 users – Innovative software that saves time and money Sela Technology Center is proud to announce the release of our unique software development productivity power tools for the Microsoft ALM environment: SCRAT , WTM and WIMBI .  All products are well proven and based on our deep understanding of client requirements for Development and Testing activities using Microsoft VS 2010. About SCRAT - MIGRATION : SCRAT tool enables the most time efficient and cost effective...

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...

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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...