My department, and I assume many others, have an unusual year end problem: they haven't consumed all their budget. If they don't spend it all, then next year the budget will be reduced. We've recommended numerous small pieces of software, but they've been rejected as "too inexpensive - we need to buy software development tools that cos...
I want to know if there exist different tools to develop software architecture and software design.. If so how do they differ and can you please mention few tools for software design and software architecture? ...
Hi all, Is there any website that I can use a demo version to draw an entity relationship diagram and share it with my colleagues? Thank you! ...
Hey guys, I need a urgent crash course on software development. We are about to start a major project at work. The project is a huge web application and I have been chosen to lead the team. The problem now is, I am not familiar with the software development process. The way I used to go about my development is think it and do it, but now...
Hi, I need a library that is able to generate UML class diagrams for use over the web. Just images based on meta data would be fine, but if anybody knows of one that allows to draw over the web, would be even better. ...
I have a large high quality c# framework codebase that I nevertheless want to try to improve. Is fxcop an effective tool for improving .NET frameworks? I know Microsoft uses the tool internally, but how do external users find it? Worthwhile? I already have a zillion lines of code and a well established style, can it be adapted to o...
What tools are used in the Sofware industry when creating reports and documentation? I have heard that some companies use NetBeans or Eclipse to create reports, what plug-ins are being used in these cases? Is there an extension to Visual Studio available? I know there's Javadoc in Java, but that's not the kind of documentation I'm ask...
It would be nice to have a tool in which you could copy and paste chunks of XAML such as this: <StackPanel Margin="10"> <TextBlock Text="Title"/> </StackPanel> And the tool would output the equivalent code behind such as this: StackPanel sp = new StackPanel(); sp.Margin = new Thickness(10); TextBlock tb = new TextBlock(); tb.Tex...
I am getting into HTTP protocol specifics and I would like to see/understand the calls my browser makes as it is being used. I use Firebug (with Firefox) to look at/debug AJAX interactions, etc, but don't see the full HTTP conversation. Is there something similar for viewing HTTP commands issued by a browser? ...
I have a issue reported by customer which suggests that the LDM database of the disk may be corrupt. Is there any way to figure out whether the LDM database on a dynamic disk is corrupt? The drives of the disks are being enumerated correctly by Windows. ...
Hi, Is there a tool that I can use to see what functions are exported by a static library? I am getting linker errors in VS2005, and I want to make sure that a static library I am including does indeed have the proper functions. I did find a lot of stuff for viewing dynamic library exports, but a search for static library viewers wasn'...
I would like to have a central place for every type of notification. I'm talking anything and everything. Here are a few example events: Receive a new email Unable to ping a server New Instant Message received Appointments (eg 3pm Dentist appointment) Webcam detects motion at front door Temperature outside is below freezing Allergy l...
Imagine I have the header files to a subsystem, but no access to the source code. Now I want to generate stubs to match all functions declared in the header files (for testing purposes). I wrote some simple code to do this, but it's not perfect. Does anyone know of any freely available software which will do this? ...
I just posted this as part of a reply to a question about the "best" bug-tracking software... Well, a tool on its own is just a tool. And while all speak of a toolchain, most just mean a loose collection of tools. Why not look for a problem tracker that "plays well with other children"? That is to say, interfaces well with your IDE, y...
I recently bought a language book that came with two DVDs. They ran on Windows computer under the Media Player, but I noticed they were very similar to TV videos. I actually popped it in my TV's DVD player and found it worked there. I could actually "run" and navigate the tutorial with my remote control. I was rather shocked that la...
I know that header guards avoid (most) trouble; call me @n@l if you like, but I just don't like a sloppy header-file tree. If I draw on paper a box for each header file and connect them by lines representing #include, I like to see a neat hierarchy. But what I usually see is a complex web. Maybe I am @n@l, but to me that tangled ...
Let us posit a company which is doing just about as much wrong as it is possible to do with regard to software development. Let us suppose that management, which imagines software to fall from the trees, grudgingly recognizes that there may possibly be a small problem and is finally willing to all to "try something". The something has ...
can anybody recommend tools to detect .net application deadlock? EDIT: Chess is what i found from Microsoft. ...
Hi All, I know this may sound silly but it seems that, my version of TortoiseSVN is unable to resolve conflicts even for text files. I've followed the manual to the letter (By selectingEdit Conflicts the resolving the conflict via Winmerge, and then, selecting Resolved) But when I viewed the text file, the conflict markers are still the...
Looking for a tool I can use to do aspect-oriented programming at the assembly language level. For experimentation purposes, I would like the code weaver to operate native application level executable and dynamic link libraries. I have already done object-oriented AOP. I know assembly language for x86 and so forth. I would like to be...