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Identifying the source of a build warning, MSB3276, about conflicting versions of an assembly that I signed with a strong name led to the discovery of an incredibly useful little tool called AsmSpy. See https://lnkd.in/eMFbuBT for details, including a link to its Chocolatey package.
Though this use case just scratched the surface of its capabilities, I can safely say that I wish that I'd known about it long ago. Generating its most basic report for the debug output directory led quickly to the identity of the conflict, along with the realization that it is inconsequential in this instance, since the conflicting assembly is present only to satisfy a binding to another assembly that never calls into the conflicting assembly in this instance. Even if it did, the new assembly is fully backward compatible.
David A. Gray
Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time
Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
modified 2-Jul-19 11:20am.
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We just started to use TFS 2018 (dedicated on our virtual machine, not the azure version). We had used Jira with add-in called "Tempo", which tracks the time, that a developer spent to finish a task.
What I'm looking for is a (possible free) tool for TFS 2018 that can automatically integrate timer start/pause and resume/stop button in task card. When I hit the start button and it can automatically keep track of my time spent. If I'm interrupted I can then just press a "pause" button, and then "resume" when I get back to that task. Is there anything like that out there?
Any hints are highly appreciated.
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Hello, I am looking for timer tool for TFS 2018 and NOT for JIRA Atlassian!  Please read my question very slowly.
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If you've never used StackBlitz[^] you should really try it out.
It's quite an amazing development platform you can run right in your browser.
Especially if you're learning TypeScript, Angular, React and others. Try it out. It's very cool and free.
modified 24-Jun-19 11:38am.
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Your link did not get "linkified".
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Your link did not get "linkified".
Thanks.
Fixed. Interesting, somehow it got a <pre> tag wrapped around the entire entry, but it had looked correct in the preview...I thought.
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It seems to happen on certain URLs but I have not found the commonality.
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Cool App Of The Day! ScreenToGif!
See, every now and then I uploaded animated screenshot of my progress on the vector graphic eraser!
Now I have problem with the vector graphic unionizer! as seen here!
(can't close the loop, and the code run significantly slower when it should close  )
Well, I used that app, ScreenToGif, to take those shots! really nice app! 
That's all for today!  
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Softwire was a program that you could use in conjunction with visual studio to drag and drop components. The Net Version was given away for free many years ago and then it disappeared/vanished. I was wondering where I could find a link to the Net Version of Softwire that was offered at the time?
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If a link exists then Google will probably be able to find it.
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There is no link on Google so I guess it has disappeared forever. I was told that it was included in an electronic/scientific package (Dacs) for measuring quantities for hospitals and science labs, but I could not locate that either. I purchased some dac boards myself, but it was not on the install disks provided with the boards. I played around with the vb6 softwire package years ago, but wondered what the net version was like.
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Problem solved. I ended up finding out where it is. It is part of the InstaCal package from measurement computing. I purchased some DAC boards and other equipment equipment recently, so a very big thank you to Joe for pointing me in the right direction. It seems that I had the old software. The net package was given away for a limited time and then it was added to the commercial Instacal package. I was just curious how different it was to the vb6 version. Once again , many thanks to those people that helped me out. It was greatly appreciated.
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The WizardWrx .NET API, which has been on GitHub - txwizard/WizardWrx_NET_API for several years, is finally available as a set of NuGet packages. Everything is subject to the same three-clause BSD license.
The WizardWrx .NET API is a set of libraries that expose a rich set of general-purpose helper classes for use in projects that target the Microsoft .NET Framework. Among other things, they offer the following.
1) Syntactic sugar, such as the routines that identify the first, last, and next-to-last iteration of a FOR loop, convert subscripts to and from ordinals (zero-based versus one-based subscripts), compute a modulus (remainder), and perform decimal shifts
2) Prse dynamically generated format control strings (used with string.format and such),
3) Reduce computing message digests to a single method call
4) Transparently convert Registry values of all types into native types (strings, integers of various sizes, and byte arrays)
5) Parse command line arguments for any program (command line or graphical),
6) Add numerous extension methods to system.string and system.IO.FileOnfo
7) Simplify working with the match groups returned by the Regular Expression engine
8) Dynamically generate format strings to compactly represent data in tabular format
9) Implement the Singleton design pattern in a way that fully leverages certain guarantees about the behavior of static constructors
10) Format and log exception reports, optionally recording them in a Windows Event Log and efficiently reporting them on the two standard console output streams, taking into account when either or both has been redirected to a file
11) Accurately identify the type of processor on which the code is executing and the Windows subsystem (character mode, graphical, etc.) in which it is executing
12) Walk the dependency tree of any executing assembly
13) Sort collections of FileInfo objects, so that the files they represent can be processed in any order
14) Provide scores of handy symbolic constants to disambiguate and properly document your code
The3re is much more; these are the highlights, most of which I use daily.
You can search the gallery for WizardWrx, though a more efficient strategy is to follow the directions given near the top of README.md in the GitHub repository. MSDN-style documentation is published at Introduction to the WizardWrx .NET API, which is a much better reference than anything that is practical to include in a NuGet package.
Though the API comprises ten libraries, you can get everything, including the two external dependencies (WizardWrx.AnyCSV and WizardWrx.BitMath) with just three NuGet requests, which are listed in the ReadMe file. This is possible because the packages include complete dependency chains.
Since each package has a companion debug symbols package, you can debug with symbols by adding https://nuget.smbsrc.net/ to your list of symbol servers. See the Debugging node in Visual Studio Options. The symbols packages add only a PDB file; if you want the source, clone the repository.
Though I didn't use test frameworks for most of it, every routine has been carefully tested, and the test program, DllServices2TestStand.exe, is included in the GitHub repository and the downloadable library packages. (It's not in the NuGet packages, where it would be significant dead weight.)
David A. Gray
Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time
Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
modified 4-May-19 3:01am.
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Hi,
At the new place I am at installing new software takes a lot of time and a complicated procedure.
For file/directory backup I have been using FreeFileSync for the last couple of years. However that requires an install on Windows which I can't do without it costing a lot of time.
Fortunately I have found a free portable alternative ( link below ). It is a pretty old program ( last version dates back to 2007 ) and pretty basic but to simply copy the content of one or more directories to a backup directory on a USB drive it works just fine, even on a windows 10 machine. It is probably a good old win32 based application that despite its age just keeps on working.
There are even a few options you can set such as only to copy new/updated files etc...
Anyway, for me it does exactly what I need it to do, maybe someone else might like it as well.
Freebyte Backup[^]
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fd9750 wrote: Freebyte Backup[^]
Went looking for this last weekend, the entire site seems have disappeared, I can only find the program on places like CNet and the like.
They say it is version 3.0 dated 09-10-2012, wonder if it is the same thing.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Yes, the website has gone up into smoke but what you find on CNET etc... is exactly the same software.
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Hello All,
I'm seriously having a brain hiccup...
Can you point me to the 'best way/most efficient way' to complete the following:
- I will pull two reports from a system (I get it in report format)
- I need to merge the information from the two files together into one file
- I need to create a report with information from specific fields
- I need to add additional information to make a well rounded email
- I need to review complete file and allow approval prior to sending
- I need to send via email
Which path / program would you use to complete something like above?
Insight appreciated.
Thanks,
CE
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Why have you posted this here, it has nothing to do with Free Tools? Please read the preamble at the top of the page.
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I posted here because I was looking for a 'free tool' that was readily available, not a 'paid tool' and
...that is why. I was seeking any insight into what free tool would allow me to do what was mentioned in the note.
I also noted that I was having a brain hiccup...
Since then, I built something from scratch myself.
Thanks.
CE
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Member 14151984 wrote: Can you point me to the 'best way/most efficient way' to complete the following:
Hire someone that knows something about architecture, programming and requirements gathering.
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