Possible Duplicate: What is your single favorite development tool? Every day I realize how much I love Visual Studio for .NET development.... but, I believe that Resharper, may hold a value that surpasses Visual Studio's (I am using VS 2005 for WPF/WCF development). I decided it would be great to compile a list of the most v...
One of my developers has started using RegexBuddy for help in interpreting legacy code, which is a usage I fully understand and support. What concerns me is using a regex tool for writing new code. I have actually discouraged its use for new code in my team. Two quotes come to mind: Some people, when confronted with a problem, t...
So what is the easiest way to accomplish this? ...
Does anyone know of a better GUI client for displaying Windows System Monitor log files? (System Monitor is sometimes called Performance Monitor.) I'm trying to track a long-term memory leak in a C# application running on Windows XP or 2K3 by comparing memory usages to run logs. Specifically I want a client that will allow me to see the...
We have a few XML based interfaces that is quite well documented in XSD schemas. The interfaces are now going to be publicly available and we would like to create reference documentation for them. Is there a tool that can automatically convert XSD files into some more readable format? ...
Whats your favorite power tool that helped you the most? OS doesn't matter. Please note this is a community wiki. I would like this list to help all of us in finding more powerful tools. If possible, list down one tool (or multiple tools for multiple os) per answer. This will make voting for tools easier ...
I want to compare two ms-access .mdb files to check that the data they contain is same in both. Is there any tool or library exists for this type of comparison? ...
We all know that having a good note taking tool is important as a developer. However, OneNote and Evernote forces us to be locked in to a particular vendor. Anyone know of good open-source tools, or even other method of taking notes w/o being "locked-in"? EDIT: I should kick myself in the head for not specifying. Taking text notes is ...
I am trying to quantify "site slowness". In the olden days you just made sure that your HTML was lightweight, images optimized and servers not overloaded. In high end sites built on top of modern content management systems there are a lot more variables: third party advertising, trackers and various other callouts, the performance of CDN...
Hi, At the moment I am using Visual Source Safe (yeah yeah!) to store my Technical Specification documentation. The actual docs are written in MS word. If find that having the spec written in word format to be a big burden, for specs to be truly used there shouldn't be any barrier to usage and more importantly access. If I can't quic...
I would like to know who is locking a file (win32). I know about WhoLockMe, but I would like a command-line tool which does more or less the same thing. I also looked at this question, but it seems only applicable for files opened remotely. ...
Much of the software design we do in our company is in Microsoft Word, embedding pictures and Visio diagrams where necessary. Can anyone recommend a good software design review collaboration tool that allows multiple parties to give review feedback in parallel? Currently, we use various methods none of which are ideal: Using "Insert ...
I'm running Windows Server 2008 64-bit "workstation" and would like to get corflags.exe. Which SDK do I need to download? Edit: I know about .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x64) and Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 but I was hoping to find something smaller as these are quite large downloads...
As everyone knows, sometimes developers have to document stuff. Or capture some stuff for filing bug reports. My question is in MS Windows. I'm trying to capture the context menu (right-click on an item) of several areas of an application. Pressing Alt to start the alt-printscreen process closes the context menu. (Only pressing Print...
I need to do some UML work and I'm sick of Visio, so I thought I'd look around the marketplace. JUDE looks good, so I thought I'd come here and see if there's any opinions of it on stackoverflow. Surprisingly (to me, at least) it doesn't even rate a mention in the What’s the best UML diagramming tool? question. What's wrong with JUDE? D...
I found a great web app for testing regexes as-you-type, but have lost it in the months since I last use it. Searching through here, I've found http://www.rubular.com/ which is useful, but not what I found originally. Today, I found a few testing tools through google, but most often they are slow, don't allow you to test as-you-type, or ...
on any element in the webpage. I need to look at what the element and children elements are. For e.g. ...
My realtime app generates a data log: 100 words of data @10Khz. I need to analyze it and produce some plots of the results. There are intermediate calculations involved - I need to take some differences, averages, etc. Excel would work fine, except for: the 32000 item limit on graph data series is too small - that's only 3 seconds...
I'd like to re-ask the How to justify a workstation upgrade question that Garry Shutler asked with the context of some of the excellent answers given. I believe that quantifying the productivity increase (extra working hours) is the most effective way to do this. My case in point: I have a fast machine at home and a slow one at work. M...
Hi, I'm looking for a tool that can pretty-print (AKA tidy or beautify) source code in as many languages as possible. Those I'm particularly keen on include: Java JSP HTML JavaScript SQL JSON XML Ideally, the tool should be able to update source files in-place and be able to format more than a single file at-a-time. It would be ...