I'm looking for recommendations for a good program for 32-bit Windows Vista that will load any arbitrary binary file and display textual information or graphical visualization relevant to identifying what actual data the bits are supposed to represent. Is ther anything better than a hex editor for this kind of thing? One thing I'd like ...
OS: Windows XP Does anyone know of tools (preferably free) to limit memory available and also other windows resources (handles etc.)? I want to test an app with low memory to make sure it behaves properly and if there are already tools to do this sort of thing, I'd rather not write my own. By the way, I did look for other Q & A threa...
Hi, I'm looking for tools which are free for personal use. As a .NET/C++ developer I've been using #Develop And VS Express editions IDEs for quite some time now. For Unit testing I use NUnit and TestDriven.NET for runner. Are there any other good tools for an open source developer I should know of? ...
I want to start developing for Windows Mobile Devices, as I plan to buy one next week. (pay day) So far most of my PDA experience is with Palm OS (m100, m105, Zire 71 and T3). For Palm there are a few good utilities for programming, mainly PocketC and OnboardC. These let you program and test on the road. I would use PocketC quite a bit ...
Present: The product development is done in Visual Studio at the moment using .Net technologies, so it's important to stay in the same set of tools. Roles apart from developers are using spreadsheets, docs and diagramming tools, photoshop to do their work. Future: We want to build a workflow (a sequential process with roles, queues fo...
My dad always says "Responsibility without Authority is meaningless". However, I find that as developers, we get stuck in situations all the time where we are: Responsible for ensuring the software is "bug free", but don't have the authority to implement a bug tracking system Responsible for hitting project deadlines, but can't influe...
Can anyone recommend a good XML diff and merge tool? ...
Background: In my job, we use SVN, C# and VisualStudio. Part of my task regularly involves global renames. Often I end up with a broken build after renaming something and then merging in changes. The question: is there a solution out there that can look at my changes, notice the global rename and then apply that to the edit that others ...
I need to create a prototype of a user interface. I'm googling, and find "Axure RP", but it is very expensive for our company. Another way for creating a user interface prototype is tools like Qt Designer, but it doesn't provide some cool functions and sometimes demand a bit of programming skills. Do you know a freeware tool for my tas...
Some of the other questions and answers here on SO extol the virtues of using an enterprise repository tool like Archiva, Artifactory, or Nexus. What are the pros and cons of each? How do I choose between them? In case it helps: We use both Maven 1 and Maven 2 (at least for a while) We want to store both internally-generated artifacts...
What tools do you use that may be considered rare in that aspect that you have only seen a few people use it? It may be any tool that may be valuable for programmers. I myself use UPX on occasions. ...
What is the easiest way of finding out what version of the iPhone SDK is installed on my OS X? When you log into the Apple's iPhone Developer Center, you can see the build number of the current available version of the SDK, but you have to remember if you have already downloaded that version or not. What is the easiest way of staying ...
James Avery wrote a classic article a while back entitled Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now which is a companion to Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now and Scott Hanselman has an excellent list on his blog but if you were on a desert island and were only allowed three .NET development tools wh...
A client wants me to do some maintenance work to a VB 6.0 application (migration to .NET is also in the pipeline), but he doesn't have the development tools because he received just the source code and running application from the original programmer, who is no longer available. Microsoft doesn't sell Visual Studio 6.0, as far as I know...
There have been lots of times in the past where a good programmer-oriented calculator would've saved me a lot of time. Lately, I've been doing quite a lot of bit manipulation, and having to do build/run to debug my calculations feels really slow. I've looked for something like this in the past, but found nothing that worked very well. ...
Java doesn't seem nearly as "well served" as .NET with tool lists on the Internet. There's James Selvakumar’s article entitled "Must have tools for a Java Developer" which has items I don't agree with. (Do FireFox and MySQL qualify as development tools?). There is also the Java Power Tools book. Assuming you already have a half-decent ...
I'm trying to do automated code review and refactoring with a tool. Something in the lines of FxCop or ReSharper. Looking for tool suggestions that meet these requirements: Low learning curve. Targeted at C# (and maybe VB.NET). Let's me easily add or customize rules (and understands entire CodeDOM). Well documented. FREE or dirt cheap...
What is the relationship between Rietveld and Gerrit (Android's code review application)? ...
Every PHP programmer likely uses at least some form of a template engine and a database abstraction layer, but apart from those what extras do you consider essential or would recommend your fellow programmers try out? ...
What are best tools available for Data Capturing from Scanned Images? Doesn't matter they are free or paid. They should be able to convert scanned images to data (text, image, tables etc.). Most importantly they should have API to integrate with .NET 2.0 for automation. Edit: The input data will generally be Text, Images, Tables places...