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Regex - 7 Free Test Tools

by Mark Pelf

We are giving an overview of 7 free Regex tools to test and develop Regex expressions

MSTest or TRX to HTML with Animated Charts

by Sunasara Imdadhusen

MS Test Result Viewer is a free open source library to convert MS Test result (.trx) file into HTML. It is also allowed you to perform MS Test on your test container project (.dll) file. This utility will work with simple command line arguments to generate test report in HTML format with excellent U

UNITY 3D – Leap Motion Integration

by Vahe Karamian

This article will cover the basics of Leap Motion integration into your Unity 3D project. We will look at the basic setup and implementation of the basics to get you started. In order for you to try the code, you will need to have the Leap Motion hardware.

cobj: Polymorphism in Plain C

by GProssliner

cobj is a preprocessor based generator for interface based polymorphism

Latest Articles

Git – 6 Free GUI Clients

by Mark Pelf

We are giving an overview of 6 free Git GUI clients

Regex - 7 Free Test Tools

by Mark Pelf

We are giving an overview of 7 free Regex tools to test and develop Regex expressions

Gradient Color Picker

by gggustafson

This article presents a tool that provides developers with the ability to pick colors from a linear color gradient.

How to Build a Tokenizer/Lexer Generator in C#

by honey the codewitch

Build a full featured tokenizer generator in C#

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what combination to develop a database

6 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP

SQL Server 2008. What app platform you use is dependent on what you need - a web app, or a desktop app, as well as what your target users are - Windows or all platforms. If you need a web app and you're targeting all platforms, go ASP.Net. Personally, I would choose Silverlight because it...

Need a RichTextBox/WebBrowser Combination

23 Jan 2012 by _Maxxx_

You really need an HTML editor - this link may helphttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/214124/winforms-html-editor[^]

Tool for testing exactly the performance of program / algorithm

13 Aug 2016 by Aamir Yousafi

With today's modern computers, for novice programmers who write mostly small programs, it's not possible to tell which program / algorithm performs better. Is there a tool that measures CPU load and memory load and other performance metrics of a particular program in Windows (an .exe file, an...

what combination to develop a database

6 Jan 2011 by Abhinav S

Since you are low on budget, Net Beans + My SQL Query Browsermight be your only choice.

A Visual Studio utility..

8 Apr 2011 by Abhinav S

Have a look at http://www.pluralsight-training.net/community/blogs/craig/archive/2005/06/26/12515.aspx. You don't need a utility - just a small registry modification is enough.For older versions of VS, see here[^].

how create report in Asp.net

14 Dec 2013 by Abhinav S

Tryhttp://weblogs.asp.net/rajbk/archive/2010/05/09/creating-an-asp-net-report-using-visual-studio-2010-part-1.aspx[^]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-wup1EBkeI[^]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479018.aspx[^]

Developing Sharepoint Windows Forms

23 Mar 2013 by AfnanMof

Steps How to Develop Sharepoint Windows Forms

How to migrate sql server database into mongodb

27 Aug 2014 by Ajay 10186562

How to Migrate Sql Server Database To Mongodb . When migrate By SqlToMongo Tool With Different Schema Name then show an Error Invalid Object name 'dbo.ScrapReason' .It is a Schema issue ..How to Migrate Different Schema name Sql server Database in to MongoDB please guide Me.

fsm from event sequence

4 Oct 2010 by akilkris

Hi,I have a sequence of event numbersthat had happened and I want an automata/FSM to be built from theseevent sequence to observe the patten ofevnet sequence. This can also be related to construction of a regular expression from the event sequence. Could you suggest a package...

Easy to Use AntiBot

28 Sep 2011 by Alexander Chernosvitov

AntiBot control using HTML5 rotating feature

.NET Reflector is becoming a paid-for product

15 Apr 2011 by Alexander Turlov

.NET Reflector is becoming a paid-for product

Regex Logviewer

16 Jun 2013 by Amit Bezalel

Using the power of regex to parse your logs

regular-expression

Developing a testing tool

11 Feb 2015 by anas_murray

I am developing a testing tool. Is it possible to add JUnit functionality to a java application so that the application (itself) can run test cases against a specified java code. In a more specific way, the application takes a folder of test cases, and the code to be tested, it then runs the...

Just updated - lost data

11 Nov 2011 by André Kraak

I think you might have a better change having your question answered if you post it at the forum going with the ToDoList 6.3.7 - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks[^] article.The forum is located at the end of the article. There is a New Question[^] button above the...

CSS

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Take control of your angle-brackets and optimize. Note: This article spans over the debugging tools for your CSS, JavaScript and other

Windows Workflow Foundation

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Windows Workflow FoundationWindows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled

Testing of ASP.NET Applications

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

This page is dedicated to collecting resources related to testing of ASP.NET applications. There are a number of tools and techniques available for

Javascript libraries

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Ext JS - http://www.extjs.com/jQueryMoo Tools - http://mootools.net/Prototype - http://www.prototypejs.org/script.aculo.us -

How to use Pointer tool in Asp.Net

13 Sep 2012 by Azziet

There is no pointer concept in C#Here is Delegate instead of PointerDelegate Exampleusing System;// Declare delegate -- defines required signature:delegate void SampleDelegate(string message);class MainClass{ // Regular method that matches signature: static void...

How to use Pointer tool in Asp.Net

13 Sep 2012 by Azziet

Refer this article for Pointer control in Toolbox of Visual Studiohttp://saraford.net/2008/04/08/did-you-know-why-does-each-toolbox-group-have-a-pointer-control-and-what-does-it-actually-do-189/[^]

Simple Performance Timer

11 Jan 2016 by Bartlomiej Filipek

Description of a simple performance timer that can be used to profile cpp code in your app

Using Additional Include Directories

4 May 2013 by bkelly13

Include code from other directories

C# Random String Generator

18 Apr 2013 by brol.sergii

A C# class that can generate random strings and supports customisation.

alternate to socket workbench

21 Aug 2015 by BVandenbon

There's a kickstarter project: TCP/IP bouncer. It's a java application to analyse TCP/IP communication.It is based on the principles of socket workbench, but it goes way beyond that. It uses draggable building blocks, which allows you to also simulate communication.

Installed SQL server data tools still it neither shows up in the project templates nor in the start menu

17 Sep 2019 by CHill60

I found the following ssis - Is it possible to install SQL Server Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017 Community?[^] (despite the SSIS in the title it is actually referring to SSDT) It suggests that a complete reinstall of Visual Studio would be the solution. Another link suggests installing it...

I Want third party tool for integrating desktopsharing s/w in my web application..

13 Feb 2012 by Christian Graus

Desktop sharing is offered by many businesses such as gotomeeting and webex. I am willing to bet that those companies would love you to pay them to link to their service through your website. I am certain no-one will give you that for free.

How Intel is working to get new, young programmers into Android Development

17 Apr 2014 by Christopher Coey

An educator's look into Beacon Mountain.

DXF Import .NET: Read and View AutoCAD Format Files

7 Mar 2011 by Chuzhakin

C# source to read AutoCAD DXF files

8 Oct 2010 by clairh

Can any1 please suggest me some links from where I could buy ocx or dll's that i could use to add in a mechanism in my vb6 project to encrypt binary files using SHA-1 or higher

ajax auto complete extender not working

12 Dec 2011 by Code 89

you Can check with attribute in web service [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService].Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX

ajax auto complete extender not working

13 Dec 2011 by Code 89

go thru the link for further clarification..http://forums.asp.net/t/1140406.aspx/1

LINQ on the Command-Line

4 May 2012 by CodingBruce

Ever want to run a Linq statement from powershell or command line?

.NET REST service

25 May 2012 by CodingBruce

Self-installing version tracking REST service for builds

How to add ISBN Book Search in asp.net C#

2 Jul 2013 by coru

How can I implement Book Search by ISBN number in c#. is there any tool or API to do so?Kindly post some samples as well.

operating system design

22 Nov 2011 by CPallini

I believe the best place for gathering such info is the Cosmos website[^] itself.

Getting Started With SSIS Script transforms

20 Aug 2012 by Daniel_Wheeler

Using a script transform with C# to convert Julian (ordinal?) dates for a date dimension.

How can I prevent files to be modified or deleted but still backup them ?

9 Apr 2019 by Dave Kreskowiak

Quote: 1) I want only a specific software/application which creates the data, being able to write on C:\temp Not possible. You cannot assign permissions to application, only to user accounts. Applications run as the user that launches them and inherit the permissions of the user. If the user...

Is it good tool in VS for answer?

29 Apr 2021 by Dave Kreskowiak

That's not "tools". What you're talking about are controls you can use in your app. There's plenty of them, like RadioButtons, CheckBoxes, TextBoxes, ... You can even create your own controls. There is nothing that is going to fit and do exactly...

alternate to socket workbench

17 Apr 2011 by Debojyoti Majumder

HTTPWatch might be helpful for you...check this link:http://www.httpwatch.com/[^]

sql server 2008 business intelligence tools fails to load

8 Nov 2014 by deeptul

dear sir,i have install sql server 2008 and business intelligence tools but the at the accessing any ssis project it shows error dynamically.i unable to load any ssis projectfollowing error i am facing please help me out to resolved this issue or i have to again newly install sql server...

Seo, what's this actually?

3 Sep 2012 by Devang Vaja

SEO=SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATIONTry GOOGLE BEFORE YOU POST QUESTION

How to test website for X-content-type-options header?

11 Sep 2017 by DGKumar

How to Test website for X-Content-Type-Options header? Could you please tell me the list of tools that find the X-Content-Type-Options What I have tried: I have tried but got the online urls but i am trying to check in any tools which provide security to test.

operating system design

22 Nov 2011 by dhiraj yadav

Respected sir Kindly provide me the list of the requirements in development of the operating system with the help of the cosmos development kit . May i use this in 3d development of OS, what else will be required . i want to give 3d look to my software. kindly guide me through i will...

How To Display x y coordinates in Canvasjs tool

15 Feb 2015 by Dinesh92d

We are developing charts controls in Mouse Over to Display X y coordinates.Refer http://canvasjs.com/html5-javascript-spline-chart/[^]

Need a RichTextBox/WebBrowser Combination

23 Jan 2012 by Don Loukes

I am busy writing an email application and I need to create the 'Forward' form so that I can forward emails that I receive to others, but I am stuck. My ‘message viewer’ uses a WebBrowser to view the body of received messages.My ‘new message’ form uses a rich text box where you type...

A Visual Studio utility..

8 Apr 2011 by dondo1020

Hi;I have seen a MS cool utility that we can install in Visual studio 2008. It create a vertical line in VS text editor to help identify script block (if.. end if). I forgot its name. Could someone tell me what it is and how to download it. Thanks

A daily build script for your project

8 Oct 2011 by Eddy Vluggen

A simple scripted solution to automate your daily builds (cost 5 minutes of scripting)

tools to remeber, discard changes you do to your database

13 Jun 2012 by elidrissi.amine1

Is there any tool that permits to know the changes you do to your SQL SERVER database( for example deleting one column) from its previous states?I want the tool that it could tell me that from the previous state of database to the current state of it i have changed the type of the column for...

mshtml.dll - Parameters

14 Nov 2013 by Erdinc Ay

I have searched for the Parameters of mshtml.dll, but could not find them, what are the parameters of mshtml.dll? (numbered %1, %2, %3, %4 in this registry information:)"%systemroot%\system32\rundll32.exe" "%systemroot%\system32\mshtml.dll",PrintHTML "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4"Many thanks!

mshtml.dll - Parameters

14 Nov 2013 by Erdinc Ay

%1: the path to the HTML file%2: the printer name %3: the printer driver name (optional)%4: the printer port name (optional) This is windows depended and can change.

Wizard and CRUD Applications to Build other CRUD Applications

8 Jun 2010 by Evoluteur

Looking at the possibility of using CRUD applications to manage other CRUD applications inside a web browser and without any hand-coding. Also, presenting a step wizard deriving the database structure from the UI rather than the opposite.

A C# implementation of the Tail -f command

4 Dec 2010 by Felice Pollano

Smart Technical Debt Estimation with NDepend

22 Mar 2017 by Fiyaz Hasan

Just like financial debt estimation, technical debt can also be estimated. Know more about this metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham and how the estimation can be done though NDepend's smart technical debt estimation feature.

Image Software Developer Kit (SDK)

10 May 2012 by fjdiewornncalwe

Does Google not work for you?Image Editor SDK[^] has 4,970,000 results for your perusal.Right under the Submit Question button is this. Did you not see this when you submitted your question?A few simple rules when posting your question. 1. Have you searched or Googled for a...

A List of Developer Tools: A Tech Blogger Must Have

12 May 2014 by Francis S Michael

List of tools

Visual Studio Visualizer: Part 1

10 Jun 2013 by Frederico Regateiro

This project shows a work around to make a non-serializable object available to a custom visualizer.

Home-made Apache log analyzer to count hits

10 Jan 2012 by Gabor Szabo (szabgab)

How to report the number of hits from localhost and elsewhere based on the Apache log file.

How to generate full visitor count from an Apache log file

16 Jan 2012 by Gabor Szabo (szabgab)

Count how many hits were generated from each IP address and show the top 10 sources.

How Do I Find If There Are Multiple Export And I Use Only Import And It Should Be Importmany

30 May 2014 by Gabriel Sas

Is there a tool that can find out if i am using Export[typeof(IMyExport)] on multiple classes but i am only using this as [Import] IMyExport TestObject; and it should be used with [ImportMany]

Gradient Color Picker

5 May 2020 by gggustafson

This article presents a tool that provides developers with the ability to pick colors from a linear color gradient.

How to List your Outlook PST Details (file name/location, PST (old/new) version, size, etc.)

26 Oct 2011 by gndzero

A fast way to display the details of all PSTs currently loaded into Outlook

cobj: Polymorphism in Plain C

7 Jun 2016 by GProssliner

cobj is a preprocessor based generator for interface based polymorphism

microcontroller

Custom DataGridView for Data Management

8 Dec 2016 by haisol

Custom DataGridView for managing data

Get image from any window.

25 Nov 2015 by hansoctantan

How can I get image that is viewed from a window. Not just capturing it using screen capture but need to get the original image.Idea here is even the image is zoomed out/in or not whole image is displayed by being too big on its viewer. I can still get the whole image, this is one of the...

please configure your config/database.yml first

12 Jan 2015 by Hapisha

I m trying to install redmine on my PC using the installation step http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/redmineinstall[^] found here. but getting the error please configure your config/database.yml first while executing the command "rake generate_secret_token" . i need help on this...

SQL-Server-2008R2

project-management

Csminify: A Merge/Minifier for C# Source

29 Aug 2019 by honey the codewitch

Easily create single source file drop-ins from multiple C# source files

How to Build a Tokenizer/Lexer Generator in C#

27 Nov 2019 by honey the codewitch

Build a full featured tokenizer generator in C#

code-generation

A C# implementation of the Tail -f command

19 Dec 2010 by Ian Shlasko

Unless I'm misreading your code on CodePlex, it looks like your utility loads in the entire file every time it changes. That might be fine for tiny files, but it would be a huge performance hit for larger ones (a few megs, for example).Why not do it a bit more simply?using (FileStream str...

Open and Close CD/DVD Drive Tray

14 Jan 2011 by Indivara

Illustrates a method of ejecting and closing the CD or DVD drive tray programmatically

Open and Close CD/DVD Drive Tray

13 Mar 2014 by Indivara

Illustrates a method of ejecting and closing the CD or DVD drive tray programmatically

A Directory Size Utility

31 Jan 2014 by Indivara

A little command line utility that will tell you the total size of all files in a directory

Directory Size Utility - Version 2

16 Feb 2014 by Indivara

This is the second version of my previous directory size utility. It has improved accuracy and supports older .NET frameworks.

Createtoolwindow2 from vspackage

13 Mar 2016 by Ishan Malik

Can anyone please guide me how can I convert Add-Ins to VSPackage Extention without recreating/replicating everything into VSIX?I have one addin which is supporting VS2010 to VS2013. I have everything in .sln. I want to migrate/create .addin into .vsix for compatibility issue of VS2015....

Example of Microsoft Flow usage or Flowers for my Wife

1 Oct 2018 by Ivan Yakimov

Here, I'll show you not so simple example of usage of Microsoft Flow for one practical task.

Program Error Reports with Visuals from .bat Files (Win7)

12 Jun 2014 by Jani Mäkinen

Program return values inspected by .bat files with visual feedback

Image Software Developer Kit (SDK)

10 May 2012 by Jeankininho

Anybody know an SDK to handle image like, resize, convert, zoom , but mainly add brightness.I'd appreciate if could answer me.

Image Software Developer Kit (SDK)

10 May 2012 by Jeankininho

I'm sorry, but I found an better: GDPicture, thank you very much.

Microsoft Excel BIFF8 Viewer

18 Jan 2012 by Jepy

Replace the last 3 blocks of code with:String.Format("{0:x}", value)

Seo, what's this actually?

3 Sep 2012 by JF2015

Why ask this question if you find so much answers provided even in the Wikepedia?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization[^]You may also want to read up on:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing[^]

Export SAP Table Structures to Google Drive

10 Mar 2015 by Jim F. Johnson

This tip describes how to use a 3rd party tool to review SAP tables structure and exporting the metadata to Google Drive in CSV format.

How to test website for X-content-type-options header?

11 Sep 2017 by Jochen Arndt

You can use any tool that can send a HTTP HEAD request and parse the answer. With curl for example: # curl -I http://www.codeproject.com HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Cache-Control: private Content-Length: 59 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Location: https://www.codeproject.com/...

Minimal Key Logger Using RAWINPUT

8 Mar 2013 by joejames111

This is a VB.NET and C# version of "Minimal Key Logger Using RAWINPUT".

how create report in Asp.net

14 Dec 2013 by joginder-banger

i think you can try crystal report. try this link crystal-reports-sample-in-aspnet.html

ToDoList don't recognise italian keyboard

30 Mar 2014 by KalimeroBlues

I have just started using v.6.8.10 on MS 7 (not installed, I run the executable from a USB dongle).I have an Italian keyboard, but ToDoList identify it as an English keyword: how I can set the correct configuration?KalimeroBlues

Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools

26 Feb 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools

tools to remeber, discard changes you do to your database

13 Jun 2012 by Kythen

If you aren't looking for a SQL source control tool, you might be looking for a SQL schema diff/comparison tool. One of the most popular ones that I know of (which is also by RedGate) is called SQL Compare[^]. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Database editions have pretty good database...

Subinacl.exe issue encounted!

13 Nov 2013 by LeeCooper2288

Hi Guys,I need your help to check my code below using Subinacl.exe which i could not generate out the errorlog file, is that my parameter was put wrong for /errorlog="C:\temp\SubinAcl\sme_caicor_ErrorLog.txt"?Subinacl.exe /playfile sme-caicor_logfiletest.txt...

How to hide my followers & following list on instagram

3 Sep 2018 by LucyPage

Instagram officially does not give you such an option to hide your followers from others. Also, there is no such third party app available through which you can hide your followers on Instagram. But still, there are some ways around to hide your followers or following. Let’s see in detail what...

Deadlock detection utilities

13 Dec 2011 by lukeer

Hi experts,my application seems to deadlock under certain circumstances. I inspected every occurance of lock, but without finding anything that would produce a deadlock (No Monitor, Mutex nor Semaphore used).As I often do in such situations, I visited my friend Google. He told me of...

Useful Tools for .NET Developers

18 Aug 2016 by M,AqibShehzad

Here are some useful tools for .NET developers

Useful Tools for Angular JS Developers

18 Aug 2016 by M,AqibShehzad

The most demanding framework can ease the life of a developer as it streamlines creating dynamic views in web applications.

29 Oct 2012 by M@dHatter

The Token Manager allows web developers to program PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript into tokens that can be used throughout WordPress.

what combination to develop a database

6 Jan 2011 by maaham

helo i want to develop a heavy dtabase, containing of millions of records. What will be the best suitable tools among below 4 combinations to learn quickly and develop the database in less time.1- Net beans + SQL server 20052- Net Beans + My SQL Query Browser3- Visual Studio + SQL...

Snipping like tool in linux

12 Jun 2012 by Mac12334

Hi All,Right now I am working on Linux platform.In windows we have a Snipping Tool which helps us capture a particular area of the screen (rather than capturing the entire screen using "Print Screen" and editing it using Paint) which helps us report an issue with a specific area of the...

Working with CodeProject Workspaces::Code (::GitMachine)

13 Dec 2017 by Marco Bertschi

CodeProject Workspaces was closed by August 30th 2014 - I decided to keep this article available since Workspaces is now a part of CodeProject's history.

Git – 6 Free GUI Clients

1 Aug 2022 by Mark Pelf

We are giving an overview of 6 free Git GUI clients

Regex - 7 Free Test Tools

14 Jun 2022 by Mark Pelf

We are giving an overview of 7 free Regex tools to test and develop Regex expressions

please configure your config/database.yml first

9 Mar 2015 by Mdzzzl5

Not trying to seem smart-alecky, but have you opened config/database.yml and filled it in with the correct values to access your database? That would be my first guess. If you've left the default values, Rails can't access the db.

SQL-Server-2008R2

project-management

Stop ILDASM ldstr breaking on 80 columns

23 Nov 2011 by Mehdi Gholam

Is there a command line to stop the ILDASM from breaking strings in the output on about 80 columns i.e. getting : IL_002b: ldstr "some really long string"instead of this : IL_002b: ldstr "some really" + " long string"

Developing a testing tool

12 Feb 2015 by Mehdi Gholam

Testing is just executing your code with the added feature of collecting the results, at the very least you can run a command line for JUnit or any other testing tool and parse the results : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2235276/how-to-run-junit-test-cases-from-the-command-line[^]