tools

Run Custom Tool error for Resources.resx

Hi all, I got a VS project from somebody else and when I tried to "Run Custom Tool" on a specific "Resources.resx" file, I ended up with "cannot find custom tool 'xxxx' on the system". I'm pretty sure this custom tool has a good existing setup, namely "Custom Tool", "Custom Tool Namespace" etc. Why am I getting this error? I tried to ...

Build Tool Evaluation Report

Hi All Am currently evaluating a build tool/framework. I need to meticulously record my findings and present it to the projects for consideration. I am having trouble coming up with a good way of covering all salient points of such a tool. Anyone know any good sites that cover this topic? (Doesnt have to be specific to build tools - a...

Tool to recursively search all files in a directory for a string

Possible Duplicate: Tools to search for strings inside files without indexing Before I make one, any good tools out there for free/cheap that will recurse through all files in a directory and search for a text string in them? Need to find an instance of a string in any configuration files laying around. Kind of like a Windows S...

How can I merge multiple OSGi bundles with BND / Maven-BND-plugin?

I'm using some off-the-shelf OSGi bundles in my application and would like to repackage them together with additional packages that are not yet OSGi compatible into a new bundle. Case in point is EclipseLink, which is available as several OSGi bundles, most of which are optional, depending on what you want to do. I want to pick those bu...

What are the best JPEG compression tools?

When making a webpage every byte counts. Especially if the webpage is heavy on graphics, has large backgrounds, etc. For that reason I want to find a good tool to compress my huge background files into as small JPEG files as possible, while still maintaining an acceptable quality. I know that a lot of things depend on the compression a...

How can I view the differences between two DLLs?

Is there a way to view the difference between two binary DLL files? I have PDBs for both. Ideally I'd like to see: What functions have been added What functions have been removed What functions have been modified (with a diff of the disassembly) What other entries (static variables, resources, etc) have been added/removed/modified ...

How do I View a Tree list of Schemas for a database in Oracle SQL Developer

How do I view the Schemas that belong to a database in SQL Developer. I am trying to get a view similar to Toad in that you have the database name at the parent level, all the schemas below it which are then expandable to view all the objects that belong to that particular schema ...

why doesn't everyone use RAD tools?

RAD tools like Clarion and WinDev claim to be 10x to 20x times faster in development and users of these tools claim the same. If that is thru, why are there so few people using these tools? if an application is made in 40 hours instead of 400 you would make a lot more money, right? ...

Send HTTP request as fast as possible

In order to test my program, I want to send about 50 http requests as fast as possile. Currently I'm using bash script which calls curl & to send each request like curl "http://my.host.com/test.php?param=1" & curl "http://my.host.com/test.php?param=2" & curl "http://my.host.com/test.php?param=100" & but it seems not fast enough. I gue...

An autoformat tool to automatically insert braces around single-line clauses?

So assuming that in our work environment we've decided that the One True Faith forbids this: if (something) doSomething(); And instead we want: if (something) { doSomething(); } Is there a tool that will do that automagically? Awesomest would be to have eclipse just do it, but since we're really just recovering from one e...

Tool to generate interface implementation by delegation ?

I often need to implement an interface by delegating the implementation to a member of my class. This task is quite tedious because, even though Visual Studio generates stubs for the interface methods, I still have to write the code to delegate the implementation. It doesn't require much thinking, so it could probably be automated by a c...

jQuery : how to debug?

Recently i watched a tutorial from youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwKq7%5FJlS8) The boy is typing jQuery code and as soon as he presses enter key we can see the result intently. What tool is that? ...

Distributed Monitoring Service using C# .NET 3.5

Let's say for example you have 5 different companies using the same platform (Windows based) all wrote their own web services, what technique using C# and .Net 3.5 would you recommend using to monitor all their different web services? My intention is to build an application that provides visual feedback on service statuses to site admin...

.NET Assembly Diff / Compare Tool - What's available?

I'd like to be able to do a code-level diff between two assemblies; the Diff plug-in for Reflector is the closest thing I've found so far, but to compare the entire assembly is a manual process requiring me to drill-down into every namespace/class/method. The other tools I've found so far appear to be limited to API-level (namespaces, c...

Best tool for assisting writing complex SQL-queries?

Hello everyone, I often find myself spending a lot of time figuring out why certain SUM()-aggregates sum up wrongly in SQL-queries. This problem often occurs if I do not take care when adding a JOIN, resulting in duplicate values being summed up etc. If I work with a big query with lots of JOINs, nested subqueries, GROUP BYs etc. things...

Good source to learn how about virus and other security tools?

Anti-virus, malware, botnets and the like are becoming larger and larger parts of our daily lives. Are there any resources that discuss creating anti-virus tools, security tools and such? Seems like an interesting topic, but I have not been able to find any real source to refer to in order to learn more. Suggestions? (Good and bad?) I ...

UI for browsing MQueues?

I'm familiar with MQJexplorer, but it's no longer under development and a bit clunky by today's standards. Is there anything better in this area, or would I have to roll my own? ...

Break execution loop inside gdb

Hello! I need to debug the program with gdb (the program itself is Qt GUI program compiled with MinGW). Particularly, program hangs at some points and I need to examine call stack. But pressing Ctrl+C seems to behave strangely -- at some points not working at all. For example, if program shows a dialog box, and I press Ctrl+C, gdb does n...

Removing strings from C source code

Can anyone point me to a program that strips off strings from C source code? Example #include <stdio.h> static const char *place = "world"; char * multiline_str = "one \ two \ three\n"; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf("Hello %s\n", place); printf("The previous line says \"Hello %s\"\n", place); return 0...

Checking VBScript syntax

Any good utilities out there for verifying VBScript syntax without actually running the script? What I'm getting at is if I do something like: If (year == "2005" && type == 1) Then ... End If Is there a tool that will tell me that the '&&' really should be 'And' and the '==', just '='? ...