tools

Is there a tool for analysing the Access Level of Java classes and methods?

In the Java code for our application I'm pretty sure there are lots of classes and methods which have public access but probably only need package level access. What I'd like to do is to tidy up our code on a package by package level, making only things that really need to visible outside each package public as this should simplify othe...

Sql Server Reporting Services 2005 report import from PDF

Is there a tool or programming method available to take the layout defined in a PDF and import it into Sql Server Reporting Services 2005? Quite a few layouts are created as PDFs by third parties. It would make development a lot easier if I could use some of the layout already defined. ...

What are some helpful tools, excercises, etc. to teach an apprentice C#?

I'm bringing on an apprentice to help with my firm, and I'm about to start teaching him C#. I'm trying to find any tools, excercises, book, etc. that can aid in helping him learn C#. I'm willing to invest to a certain degree, so anything that is commercial may also be viable. This is to apprentice someone who is in the college years...

VS.NET Tool to name all controls on form

A while ago, I saw on a Screencast a tool that could be ran in VS.NET IDE. When executed it would prompt to set the Name and Text property for each control. This seemed like a good idea, but I never got around to trying it. Now I can't remember what it is. Does anyone know of a tool that will do this? ...

3D equivalent to Visio

Anyone recommend a tool. Commercial or freeware that allows things to be dropped into 3D Space then linked in various ways. This structure can be viewed rotated, flown through etc. Ta ...

Open source PHP reporting tool

Hi All I am developing web based application, i need php reporting lib/class to make the job easy. I need PDF/Excel format. The report based on related db tables(member bills, member info) Is there any advanced open source solution ? Thanks ...

Free tool to convert XSD to HTML

Is there good freeware tool that will help me convert XSD to HTML? Thanks, Jerry ...

What things would/should you like to monitor for a web application

In building a web application (not built on any specific framework) I'd like to build a "complete" set of tools for monitoring it. There are obviously some great tools out there for monitoring the DB or the Web Server, or App Server... but I'd like to build a dashboard that lets admin users monitor the overall health/status of the syste...

How do you generate classes in C# from a SQL Server Schema?

I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. ...

Is there a way to view relationships in Oracle SQL Developer?

I want to find which tables are related to a specific table. I can see all the foreign key constraints easily enough, but what about table for which the table I am looking at is the primary key table and the other table is the referenced table. ...

Is a "my toolkit" installer a good idea?

I have a small pile of programs that I tend to install on any computer I expect to be working on. I have thought that it would speed things up to build myself an installer program (.msi or something like that) that dumps out an runs all the different installers for me. Has anyone done this? Can anyone think of a reason this wouldn't wor...

Can A VS plugin inject code into the compilation process?

I'm sort of conceptually designing a plug-in I'd love to have here. What I'd want is to be a able to tag line in my code (something like how breakpoints are added) and then get a trace log of when execution runs though them. Rather than set breakpoints (because they don't work outside the debugger), I'd rather that inside the compiler, t...

How should I set up Eclipse when preparing for a presentation or demo?

If I'm presenting code usually I show it in a syntax-highlighting text editor. But I've been doing more "live coding" in some presentations recently where it's important to show off some IDE tooling. How should I set up Eclipse when preparing for a presentation or demo? Is there a way to save and switch out presenter settings? Is the...

Quality Agent Test Tool (QAT) for testing

Hi, Anyone can give me Information about Quality Agent Test tool (QAT). Regards Manish ...

What tools do you guys use when integrating with Subversion on Windows?

I'm just getting into Subversion for personal projects and am interested in knowing what tools you use that integrate with Subversion on the Windows platform. Things like visualisation, backup, IDE integration, issue tracking integration etc. Anything that extends the basic functionality of Subversion really to make it more powerful. ...

Visually marking conditional compilation

We have a large amount of C/C++ code that's compiled for multiple targets, separated by #ifdefs. One of the targets is very different from the others and it's often important to know if the code you're editing is compiled for that target. Unfortunately the #ifdefs can be very spread out, so it's not always obvious which code is compile...

How to make SVN perform a command without making changes

In CVS I could do the following cvs -n update And it would should me what would happen if I ran an update but without changing anything. I mainly use this to check if I am going to get a lot of conflicts. In svn I would like to do the same but with the switch command ie: svn -n switch url1 url2 My understanding is that there is a...

How to explore which classes are loaded from which JARs?

Is there a way to determine which classes are loaded from which jars at runtime? I'm sure we've all been in JAR hell before. I've run across this problem a lot troubleshooting ClassNotFoundExceptions and NoClassDefFoundErrors on projects. I'd like to avoid finding all instances of a class in jars and using process of elimination on the...

Essential "code toolset" for java/.Net

What essential code packages do you use on every project, that's not included in the BCL or java distribution? Mocking/Stubbing Unit Tests IOC / Dependency Injection Logging ORM ... Which implementation of the above do you use? What essentials did I miss? ...

Any free UML modeling tool that runs on native Win32?

I know about ArgoUML, an UML modeling tool that needs java to run. I'm looking for something similar but wich doesn't needs java. Thank you in advance. ...