Apr
29th

A Great Visual Studio Add-on You Must Have

Posted by Amit |
Filed under Utilities, Visual Studio |

Recently I found out this great add-on for Visual Studio 2008 called PowerCommands. PowerCommands Extends the functionality of Visual Studio 2008 by adding some features which we all want built into Visual Studio. PowerCommands provides the following:

My favorite: Copy Reference, very useful indeed, and you all know it, just right click on the reference you [...]


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Apr
24th

A Great XPath Query Tool

Posted by Shahar Y |
Filed under .Net, C#, Utilities |

XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, for those who are not familiar with this language - here are the W3C specifications and here is the W3schools tutorial. Now that we know XPath, lets get to the point of that post which is - Visual XPath.

This is a free graphical XPath [...]


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Apr
11th

Free Tool - Extract Hard Coded Strings to Resource Files

Posted by Shahar Y |
Filed under .Net, C#, Utilities, Visual Studio |

Recently, I ran into a great free Microsoft tool which is called - Resource Refactoring Tool. This tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files.
Resource files (.resx files) consists of XML entries, which specify objects and string inside XML tags. Those files can be opened with [...]


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Mar
30th

5 Firefox Extensions Any Web Developer Must Have

Posted by Amit |
Filed under Utilities, Web Development |

We all know that Firefox has tons of plug-ins and add-on’s, but there are a few any web developer must know and use. The description and screenshots are taken from the Firefox add-ons site.

CSSMate: Inline CSS Editing Evolved. Originally a port of the fantastic EditCSS tool that I’ve been using for many months. I’ve gutted [...]


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Mar
14th

My New Theme

Posted by Amit |
Filed under Utilities |

Hi everyone.
 I am proud to present my new theme. It took me some time to build it but i think it is great. it is base uppon the o2 theme by eches so thanks to him for releasing it.
And many thank to my girlfriend Nitzan who gave me much help in the design process.
I would love [...]


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Dec
22nd

How To Use Microsoft Expression Blend to Modify a Control

Posted by Amit |
Filed under .Net, C#, Utilities, WPF |

Hi all.
Say you absolutely have to change the Button of a Combobox to a circle instead of an arrow - you just have to!!!!
Here comes Microsoft Expression Blend to the rescue, If you code in WPF and don’t have it yet, you can get it here, Its the beta of blend 2 but believe [...]


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Dec
19th

Expresso - a Great Regular Expression Tool

Posted by Amit |
Filed under .Net, C#, Utilities |

Hi all.
This one is for all you guys who are tired of pressing F5 over and over in Visual studio just to see if you got the Regular expression right.
I know I got tired of it and that’s how i found this tool.
Introducing:
Expresso the “Visual Studio of Regular Expression”
It’s a great tool that will make [...]


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Dec
19th

Internet Explorer 7 Ultimate Plugin

Posted by Amit |
Filed under Utilities |

Hi all.Do you envy the Mozilla ad blocker and customizations options?
Well, no more!!!
Introducing IE7Pro the perfect add-in that give you great customization options and much much more!
Check it out here:
http://www.ie7pro.com/
Enjoy
Amit


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Dec
17th

How to Compile from Windows Explorer / Total Commander

Posted by Amit |
Filed under .Net, C#, Utilities, Visual Studio |

Hi all.
Are you dreaming of compiling/building binaries without waiting hours for Visual Studio to open up?
Well Now you can!
This is something nice I picked up from one of the Integration guys at work
Just download this Registry fix File from here
double click it and your there…
The result is this nice Windows Explorer or Total Commander [...]


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Dec
13th

Google Toolbar 5 Beta is out!!!

Posted by Amit |
Filed under Utilities |

Google has just released the new Beta version of Google toolbar 5 which has some new features:

Support for goggle Gadgets.
One click registration form filling.
Synchronizing Toolbar from another computer.
Fixing of broken Links.
New bookmarks management system and many more!!!
Integration with YouTube.
Find out weather forecast in your area.

The new toolbar also has the Google Notebook in it.
download [...]


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