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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

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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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(Memory and Resource) Leak Detection for WinCE

23 May 2012 by Sergeant Kolja

This is an alternative for "Memory leak detection for WinCE".

.NET Reflector is becoming a paid-for product

15 Apr 2011 by Alexander Turlov

.NET Reflector is becoming a paid-for product

.NET REST service

25 May 2012 by CodingBruce

Self-installing version tracking REST service for builds

[Offtop] [survey] front-end code playground tools

22 May 2018 by Richard MacCutchan

This forum is for technical questions. If you want collaboration on some subject then please use Collaboration / Beta Testing Discussion Boards[^].

A C# implementation of the Tail -f command

4 Dec 2010 by Felice Pollano

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...

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)

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

A List of Developer Tools: A Tech Blogger Must Have

12 May 2014 by Francis S Michael

List of tools

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 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[^].

ajax auto complete extender not working

12 Dec 2011 by se.nishant

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 se.nishant

thanks but i already checked that also..

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

alternate to socket workbench

17 Apr 2011 by Shajeel

I am looking an freeware alternate to http://www.socketworkbench.com/[^]. Can any one please point out?Regards

alternate to socket workbench

17 Apr 2011 by Debojyoti Majumder

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

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.

Any tool to check UI controls alignment?

16 Mar 2012 by PravinSingh

Is there any tool to check if UI controls on a desktop app or a web app are properly aligned, the distance between them is consistent and the controls are following UI standards?Because if there isn't any already, I am planning to write one. :)

Any tool to check UI controls alignment?

16 Mar 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I don't know if such tool is available. I would not be surprised if there are no such tool, and I know why: it would be useless. I can guess where it comes from: you probably develop UI manually, it means by some sort of graphical designer, and you use absolute positioning. In other words, you...

Any way to download or extract all whatsapp group contact list?

3 Sep 2018 by Sneha Kapoor

Is their any script or tool to download Details of all members of a Whatsapp group? Script in case if I use it on Computer using Whatsapp Web. What I have tried: I have not found any working tool or script for this.

C# Random String Generator

18 Apr 2013 by brol.sergii

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

C++ with gradle and kotlin-dsl; usages of buildtypes & flavors

27 May 2022 by Phoenix Liveon

How do we implement some buildTypes and flavors configs for our project(library or an application). I had a hard time finding tutorials or references about it, especially if it is implemented in kotlin-dsl. I tried to simulate the concepts from...

C++ with gradle and kotlin-dsl; usages of buildtypes & flavors

27 May 2022 by Rick York

I am not entirely clear on what you are asking but I'll take a shot. First, there are two kinds of libraries you can build - statically linked and dynamically lined. You define which kind(s) in the project settings of the library's solution. ...

Can Luntbuild be used for .NET projects?

29 Jun 2010 by SubratT44

Can we use Luntbuild[^] for integration of .NET projects?

cobj: Polymorphism in Plain C

7 Jun 2016 by GProssliner

cobj is a preprocessor based generator for interface based polymorphism

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Code Usage Coverage Tools

2 Jul 2015 by stixoffire

I am looking for an open source tool that can scan my code and determine unused code in 4 solutions (3 are referenced by one solution ) I would like to know what methods are not used, and what classes are not used so I can streamline things to make it easier to maintain. Any help is appreciated.

Code Usage Coverage Tools

2 Jul 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

You can consider this list and review each suggested product:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_static_code_analysis#.NET[^],see also http://bfy.tw/dKE[^].I personally only used FxCop; I simply don't remember if dead code is detected, probably it should. This product has...

Could not get the Request calls trace in Fiddler on server

29 Mar 2013 by rhtbhegade

Hi Experts,I wanted to know that which are the service calls that are been requested on to my server and from which client. I did want to know which are the client machines\IPs that are giving server the requests or ViceVersa.I can trace this in Fiddler , but Fiddler do gives me only...

Could not get the Request calls trace in Fiddler on server

29 Mar 2013 by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

I think you need to make Fiddler first to listen to traffic from any binding. Second you have to configure the individual machines to route the request through the machine running Fiddler and at Fiddler port (which I believe is defaulted to 8888)

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....

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

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

Custom DataGridView for Data Management

8 Dec 2016 by haisol

Custom DataGridView for managing data

Database project diff SQL script utility (Using VSDBCMD)

26 Mar 2012 by Umesh Khandelwal

Database project diff SQL script utility (using VSDBCMD).

DataSet to Excel File Conversion using ExcelLibrary

15 Jan 2012 by Robby Tendean

ExcelLibrary implementation sample to convert DataSet to Excel file in VB.NET

DataSet to Excel File Conversion using ExcelLibrary

1 Feb 2012 by Robert Hutch

Hi,another alternative is this Excel C# / VB.NET component that has limited free version that can be used in commercial applications and unlimited professional version.Here is an Excel VB.NET code how to export DataSet to Excel:Dim ef = New ExcelFile()For Each dataTable As...

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...

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...

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[^]

Developing Sharepoint Windows Forms

23 Mar 2013 by AfnanMof

Steps How to Develop Sharepoint Windows Forms

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.

Django and Tornado: Python Web Frameworks

29 Oct 2013 by Software Developer's Journal

Learn about Django and Tornado

Downloading Stock Quotes with Stocks Tracker API

14 Jul 2015 by Sergey Nizhegorodtsev

The article shows how to implement open source Stocks Tracker API in Java projects. Individual stock quotes can be easily fetched from various free online sources with this library.

DXF Import .NET: Read and View AutoCAD Format Files

7 Mar 2011 by Chuzhakin

C# source to read AutoCAD DXF files

Easiest and cheap tool to build a web and mobile app

17 May 2020 by Member 14835524

Hello everyone :) so let me tell you something about me related to my question.... first let's say that I am over 50 ;P so be patient with me :) I was old school coder, LM, Pascal and then Basic (almost any version of it) lucky me I was...

Easiest and cheap tool to build a web and mobile app

17 May 2020 by Richard MacCutchan

I am sorry to say this but if you find Visual Studio confusing then learning any of the frameworks and languages needed for your projects is going to be hard work. Creating websites with ASP.NET is probably the best choice, but it is quite a...

Easiest and cheap tool to build a web and mobile app

17 May 2020 by RickZeeland

Here are some options: free-cross-platform-mobile-and-desktop-no-web-app-development-frameworks-that-can-be-used-to-create-commerci[^] frameworks-for-developing-cross-platform-mobile-apps[^] frameworks-for-creating-mobile-web-apps[^] If you like...

Easy to Use AntiBot

28 Sep 2011 by Alexander Chernosvitov

AntiBot control using HTML5 rotating feature

Evaluating SQL Server Data Tools

1 Apr 2012 by Torsten Tiedt

Database development with Server Data Tools

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.

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.

File Explorer Clone with Tabs and Parallel File Search Tool

21 Apr 2018 by Wade Harvey

This article shows how to use Winforms, WPF and C# to create a File Explorer Clone with Tabs and an extremely fast parallel file search utility.

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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...

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...

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.

Git History Tool

15 May 2015 by Vasil Trifonov

Git History Tool

Git – 6 Free GUI Clients

1 Aug 2022 by Mark Pelf

We are giving an overview of 6 free Git GUI clients

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.

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

9 Apr 2019 by Member 14221764

Hello Everyone, I have a software producing measurement data locally on C:\temp. Following are my goals: 1) I want only a specific software/application which creates the data, being able to write on C:\temp 2) I want NO USERS being able to modify or delete the data 3) I want to move (not...

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...

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[^]

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

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]

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.

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.

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

2 Jul 2013 by Mycroft Holmes

Who are you going to use to search against? This may give you some ideas book search api[^]Amazon and Google books seem to be the best candidates. the code you require will be in the samples the api suppliers will provide.

How to add spaces between words in a spaceless strings

2 Jan 2014 by Viktor Kovács

A simple solution for processing spaceless strings

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

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/[^]

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 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...

How to improve back end skils?

26 Dec 2021 by Member 15435322

Hi all.I started working as a junior java developer at my workplace. But I am facing some problems. The moment I worked was actually understanding what a back end developer was doing. But I couldn't understand. I finally realized something, that...

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

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.

How to prepare Reports with different gadgets...

19 Nov 2014 by Member 11248800

Hi,I would like to create a report where the report should be colorful with different gadgets like charts, graphs, pictures etc...dymanic drag of chart lines to see values...I have tried in SSRS and dev xpress, want something new.I want anyone to suggest a tool or s/w to create...

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.

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/...

how to use n-gram extract tools that is open source

14 Apr 2014 by zeguang zhang

today I want to use N-GRAM to identify some languages, so I downloaded n-gram extract tools to build n-gram model,but I did not know how to use it,who can help me? thank you .

How to use Pointer tool in Asp.Net

13 Sep 2012 by Pr!y@

Hello Every One There is a tool in Asp.Net Name Pointer . Please help me, how to use this tool in web form. I searched a lot but found nothing even in msdn Thanks in Advance.

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/[^]

How-to: Benefit from Kinect.Toolbox and Coding4Fun on Kinect Programming

19 Nov 2012 by Saad Mousliki

The use of Kinect.Toolbox and Coding4Fun APIs could save time on Kinect programming this is what we will see in this article and also how to modify those APIs and use it

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

13 Feb 2012 by Nikhil Dayalpawar

Hi,I Want third party desktop sharing s/w tool for integrating in my web application..with that s/w sdk if anybody knows then please tell me...Thanks

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.

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 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...

Image Software Developer Kit (SDK)

10 May 2012 by Jeankininho

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

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

17 Sep 2019 by simpledeveloper

Hi I have installed SQL Server Data Tools, with VS 2017, now it is not showing up in the Services section, not in the VS project Templates and not in the Start menu. Its very embarrassing why is it not happening, any help would be greatly helpful - thanks in advance. What I have tried: ...

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...

Is it good tool in VS for answer?

29 Apr 2021 by Member 15170612

Hi, I would like to ask if there is a good tool for marking the answer in Visual Studio? I create WPF Application in which it would be possible to mark the answer.In short, there would be a mathematical example and the user would be able to...

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...

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 -

Just updated - lost data

11 Nov 2011 by webtechjo

Is there anywhere that I can recover my todolist? I looked in backup but that list is 3 months old.yikes.... LindaUPDATESTODOLIST by AbstractSpoonversion 6.3.0.0I was busy doing multiple things and I get a popup that I need to update - so I click - update,,, then there is no...

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...

Know your application better with visual studio 2010 load testing

9 Aug 2012 by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Configure visual studio load testing tool and utilize to scale application by analyzing testing results

LeakMon: Part 3 - Opening a file in Visual Studio through automation

24 May 2011 by Naveen

In this post, we will see how the DumpViewer is able to open a particular file in Visual Studio and highlight the specified line.

LINQ on the Command-Line

4 May 2012 by CodingBruce

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

Microsoft Excel BIFF8 Viewer

16 Jan 2012 by Robby Tendean

A tool for viewing Microsoft Excel BIFF8 binary format