Windows Developer Power Tools - Table of Contents

Credits

About the Authors

Contributors

Preface

Building ASP.NET Applications

Introduction

Building Sophisticated AJAX Applications with ASP.NET "Atlas"

Adding AJAX Functionality With Anthem.NET

Adding AJAX Functionality with AJAX.NET Professional

Generating User-Friendly URLs with URLRewritingNet.UrlRewrite

Showing a "Please Wait" Dialog with BusyBoxDotNet

Creating Cleaner HTML Output with CSS-Friendly Controls

Adding Word-Processing Capabilities to Your Application with FreeTextBox

Creating Charts with the WebChart Control

Consuming and Publishing RSS Feeds with the RSS Toolkit

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Working With Windows Forms

Introduction

Getting that "WinXP Look" with XP Common Controls

Creating Dockable Windows with DockPanel

Creating a Professional User Interface with the Krypton Toolkit

Learning More about Windows Common Controls with Control Spy

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Developing with .NET 3.0 (AKA "WinFx")

Introduction

Creating Great Visuals for Your Applications with Expression Graphic Designer

Creating WinFx User Interfaces without Code

Writing XAML in XamlPad

Avoiding XML Configuration Files with the Service Configuration Editor

Deciphering WCF Logs with the Service Trace Viewer

Developing WinFx Applications in Visual Studio with WinFx Development Tools

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Working With Code Libraries

Introduction

Externalizing Business Rules with NxBRE

Diagnosing Without Downtime via Log4net

Searching Your Data Using Lucene.Net

Finding Changes Between Assembly Versions with LibCheck

Comparing Assemblies with Reflector.Diff

Implementing Spell Checking In Your Windows and Web Apps with NetSpell

Creating Graphs and Plot Charts Quickly with NPlot

Sorting Algorithms In C# with NSort

Creating RSS Feeds with RSS.NET

Using Zip, GZip, Tar, and BZip2 Archives in Your Software with SharpZipLib

Generating Excel Files from Code Using ExcelXmlWriter (Without Having Excel!)

Creating PDFs with iTextSharp

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Generating Code

Introduction

Creating Code Automatically with MyGeneration

Generating Your Data Access Layer With Codus

Writing Your Web Services Contract First With WSCF

Generating XML Schemas and Strongly Typed DataSets With XSD

Practicing Contract-First XML Development with XSDObjectGenerator

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Writing Code

Introduction

Building .NET Applications with Visual Studio Express

Developing .NET Applications Using SharpDevelop

Writing Mono Applications on Linux with MonoDevelop

Creating Stand-Alone Snippets with Snippet Compiler

Handling Small Tasks with Notepad2

Mastering Regular Expressions with the Regulator

Creating Regular Expressions with ReguLazy

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Creating Documentation

Introduction

Documenting Your Source Code with GhostDoc

Viewing Documentation in Visual Studio with CR_Documentor

Creating Professional Documentation with NDoc

Printing PDF Documents with PDFCreator

Building a FAQ with skmFAQs

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Enhancing Visual Studio

Introduction

Boosting Productivity with CoolCommands

Improving the Class Designer with the Class Designer PowerToy

Opening Files Quickly with VSFileFinder

Mastering Unmanaged APIs with PINVOKE.NET

Spell-Checking ASP.NET and HTML with the HTML/ASP.NET Page Spell Checker Add-in

Switching Window Layouts Quickly with VSWindowManager

Blogging or E-Mailing Your Code in Style with the CopySourceAsHtml Visual Studio Add-in

Editing CSS in Visual Studio with the CSS Properties Window

Bringing the Web Application Project Back to Visual Studio 2005

Sharing your Visual Studio Goodies with the VS Content Installer Power Toys

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Analyzing Your Code

Introduction

Checking Complexity and Dependencies With Peli's Reflector Add-Ins

Checking Your Source Code's Complexity with SourceMonitor

Analyzing Code Inside Visual Studio with CR Metrics

Finding Your Code's Dependency Complexities with NDepend

Writing Better Code with FxCop

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Testing Your Software

Introduction

Unit-Testing Your Code with NUnit

Speeding Your Test Development with NUnit Code Snippets

Writing Advanced Unit Tests with MbUnit

Getting More From Your Tests With Zanebug

Bringing Your Customers into the Testing Process with Fitnesse.NET

Analyzing Unit-Test Coverage with NCover

Analyzing Your Code Coverage with NCoverExplorer

Integrating Unit Testing into Visual Studio with TestDriven.NET

Integrating Mock Objects into Your Testing with NMock2

Creating Strongly Typed Mocks with Rhino.Mocks

Unit Testing Your GUI With NUnitForms

Creating Performance Benchmark Tests With NTime

Automating Web Application Testing with Selenium Core

Driving Your Web Applications Automatically with Watir

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Working with Source Control Systems

Introduction

Setting Up Subversion Rapidly with SVN 1-Click Setup

Accessing Subversion and CVS with TortoiseSVN/CVS

Using Subversion Inside Visual Studio with AnkhSVN

Removing Visual Source Safe Bindings with SourceSafe Binding Remover

Comparing Files with WinMerge

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Building, Using Continuous Integration, and Deploying Your Applications

Introduction

Creating Consistent Builds with NAnt

Automating your Build Process with MSBuild

Building .NET 1.1 Assemblies in MSBuild with MSBee

Extending MSBuild Capabilities with MSBuild Community Tasks

Managing Your Build Process Visually with MSBuild Sidekick

Shortening the Development Cycle with CruiseControl.NET

Easing the Burden of Implementing a Continuous Integration Process with CI Factory

Making Web Application Deployments Easy with Unleash It

Easing Web Application Deployments with Web Deployment Projects

Creating a Setup Project with WiX

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Boosting Team Collaboration

Introduction

Improving Team Communication and Collaboration with Basecamp

Building Online Communities with Community Server

Creating a Blog with Subtext

Collaborating Online with FlexWiki

Driving Another PC Remotely via XP's Remote Assistance

Talking to Colleagues with Skype

Chatting with Anyone using GAIM

Administering Team Foundation Users with Administration Tool for TFS

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Tracking Bugs, Changes, and Other Issues

Introduction

Implementing a Bare-Bones Defect Tracker with BugTracker.NET

Handling Mid-Sized Projects with CodeTrack

Running an Enterprise-Level Bug-Tracking System with Bugzilla

Managing a Project with Trac

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Troubleshooting and Debugging

Introduction

Monitoring File Access in Your System with FileMon

Identifying TCP Port and Endpoint Issues with TCPView

Seeing What's Being Accessed in Your Registry with RegMon

Getting a Better View of Processes on Your System with Process Explorer

Digging Into Your Program's CLR Interactions with PInvoke and COM using CLR SPY

Tracking Down Memory-Allocation Problems with CLR Profiler

Debugging Your Application After It's Been Deployed with ClrDump

Debugging Hangs and Monitoring Processes with Managed Stack Explorer

Examining HTTP Traffic with Fiddler

Identifying Network Problems with Ping Plotter

Examining Logs with LogParser

Simplifying Debugging with Visual Studio 2005 Visualizers

Finding Bottlenecks with NProf

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Using Decompilers and Obfuscators

Introduction

Examining Common Ground with ILDASM

Analyzing Assemblies with Reflector

Debugging .NET Assemblies without Source Code Using Dotnet IL Editor

Preventing Reverse Engineering of Your Code with Dotfuscator

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Tightening Up Your Security

Introduction

Analyzing Threats your Application Faces with the Threat Analysis & Modeling Tool

Protect your Communications with Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs

Mitigating Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Highlighting Explorer Windows with Different Security Privileges using PrivBar

Opening a Command Window with Admin Privileges using MakeMeAdmin.cmd

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Building Your Application With Frameworks

Introduction

Reusing Professional Infrastructure with Enterprise Library

Creating Web Applications and Systems with DotNetNuke

Improving Smart Device Development with the Smart Device Framework

Building and Deploying Cross-Platform .NET Applications with Mono

Spelunking the Framework with Rotor

Simplifying Web Development with Castle MonoRail

Obtaining a Decoupled Architecture with Castle Windsor

Improving Your Code's Design and Testability with PicoContainer

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Working with XML

Introduction

Transforming XML Documents with nxslt2

Displaying XML on the Web with eXml

Building Composite XML Documents with XInclude.NET

Referencing Part of an XML Document with XPointer.NET

Comparing and Unit-Testing XML with XML Diff and Patch

Extending XSLT Processing with EXSLT.NET

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Interacting with Databases

Introduction

Finding the Proper Connection String with ConnectionStrings.com

Creating SQL Connection Strings Quickly with SQL Connection String Builder

Administering SQLite Databases with the SQLite Administrator

Working with Oracle inside Visual Studio

Managing Oracle Databases with Oracle SQL Developer

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Exploring Object/Relational Mapping

Introduction

Mapping Objects to the Database with NHibernate (or How to Stop Writing all that Data-Access Code)

Mapping Business Objects with NPersist

Easing the Burden of Creating O/RM Files with ObjectMapper

Simplifying Data Access with Castle ActiveRecord

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Enhancing Web Development

Introduction

Debugging Web Pages in Internet Explorer with Web Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer

Avoiding Web Headaches with the Web Developer Extension for Firefox

Diagnosing Javascript and Ajax with Web Development Helper

Eliminating Memory Leaks in Internet Explorer with Drip

Debugging Webpages at Runtime

Checking Web Pages with the W3C Markup Validation Service

Checking Your Web Site's Accessibility with Watchfire's WebXACT

Cleaning up your HTML with HTML Tidy

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Boosting Productivity with Windows Utilities

Introduction

Launching Tools and Websites Quickly With SlickRun

Spotlighting Content in Your Presentations with ZoomIt

Getting to the Right Detail with Magnifixer

Extracting Files From Windows Installer Files with Less MSIérables

Handling FTP More Efficiently with FileZilla

Opening a Shell Where You Need It with Command Prompt Here

Grabbing Screenshots with Cropper

Grabbing Color Values with ColorMania

Bringing .NET to the Command Line with PowerShell

Getting the Most out of PowerShell with the PowerShell IDE

Managing and Switching Tasks with TaskSwitchXP

Keeping Data in Sync with SyncToy

Resolving Locked File Problems with Unlocker

Bringing POSIX Emulation to Windows with Cygwin

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Common Tasks in Visual Studio

Introduction

Adding a Reference to Your Projects

Adding Tools to the Toolbox