.NET Recommended Resources

Agenda

Tools and Utilities

Web Sites

Other Suggestions from the Group

Discussion

Tools and Utilities – Regular Expressions

Roy Osherove’s “The Regulator 2.0”

http://regex.osherove.com

Eric Gunnerson’s “Regular Expression Workbench 2.0”

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericgu/archive/2003/07/07/52362.aspx

RegEx 101 Blog Series

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericgu/archive/category/11323.aspx

Chris Sells’ RegExDesigner.NET

http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/

The first, but now less functional than the above

Web Sites – Regular Expressions

Regular Expression Library

http://regexlib.com/

Great source for help with developing regular expressions

Roy Osherove’s “The Regulator 2.0” includes integrated search for it

Tools and Utilities – Text Editors

Notepad2

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Basic idea is that it looks a lot like notepad, but it has color coding xml, html, c# etc. It also lets you change stuff like the font size. Its simple like Notepad, but much more powerful and useful. (Chris Sutton)

Notepad++

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Open source notepad, with syntax highlighting and lots of features. Based on the Scintilla edit component, which is also open source.

Tools and Utilities – Profilers

Compuware’s DevPartner Profiler Community Edition

http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/default.htm - click on link to fill in registration form for free download

Provides timing and execution counts of code.

Integrates with Visual Studio

Tools and Utilities – Profilers

.NET Memory Profiler

http://memprofiler.com/

Traces memory usage in .NET programs

Full support for analyzing the GC Heap

Snapshots of memory usage at any point

Finds undisposed IDisposables

Easy to use, must understand GC to gain full benefits

Tools and Utilities – IDE and Compilers

Microsoft Express Tools

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx

C#, C++, VB.NET, J#

Free, lightweight and easy-to-use

SQL Server 2005 Express too!

#develop

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

Free IDE for C#, VB.NET

Open source

Tools and Utilities - IDE and Compilers

Snippet Compiler

http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler/

Quick-n-dirty testing of code. Type, compile, run. No fuss, no muss, no VS projects

Tools and Utilities – Code Generation

MyGeneration (free)

http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com

Generates any type of text file. Useful for generating repetitive code that can be created based upon some metadata. For example, data access layers, business objects, any type of patterned template for your team to follow.

ASP.NET-like template syntax

Ton’s of user-contributed templates

Can create a user interface for use during template execution

Tools and Utilities – Code Generation

CodeSmith (commercial)

http://www.codesmithtools.com

Generates any type of text file. Useful for generating repetitive code that can be created based upon some metadata. For example, data access layers, business objects, any type of patterned template for your team to follow.

ASP.NET-like template syntax

Ton’s of user-contributed templates

Buy the full studio – it’s worth it.

Tools and Utilities – ASP.NET

ASP.NET Version Switcher

http://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/ASPNETVersionSwitcher.aspx

For those working with ASP.NET with multiple .NET versions.

Tools and Utilities - Assemblies

Reflector – THE tool for browsing assemblies

http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Add-Ins - http://www.codeplex.com/reflectoraddins

Tools and Utilities - Documentation

nDoc – XML Doc Formatter

http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/

NDoc generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler

Comment your code with XML markup. Build outputing the XML. Use nDoc on it. Enough said.

Produces CHM, HTML in many styles

GhostDoc – Code Comment Template Generator

http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/

Intelligently inserts a template of XML documentation for your method

Highly configurable

Big timesaver for those making good use of XML comments

FreeMind – Mind mapper, brainstorming tool

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Open source (it’s Java)

Great for putting together ideas, task dependency lists, etc.

CodePlotter – ASCII Diagramming Tool

http://www.codeproject.com/tools/codeplotterremoded.asp

For drawing diagrams and rendering them in ascii. Automatically puts diagram in commented lines that can be inserted directly into code. Its open source!

Note – it starts in the system tray

//{{DIAGRAM_START // //: Class Diagram // // .----------. .---------------. // |Base Class<-----<IWidgetReader | // | | | | // ·^---------· ·---------------· // | // | // .^--------------. // |Derived Class | // | | // ·---------------· //}}DIAGRAM_END

Highlight

http://www.andre-simon.de/

Pretty-prints source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, LaTeX and XML formats

Support 100+ programming languages

Tools and Utilities - SQL

Red Gate SQL Comparison Tools

http://www.red-gate.com/solutions/sql/index.htm

Tools and Utilities – Source Metrics

Source Monitor

http://www.campwoodsw.com/

Lots of detail and charting. Very fast. Multi-language.

USysWare’s DPack – Solution Statistics module

http://www.usysware.com/dpack/Stats.aspx

Integrated with VS. Can do metrics on a loaded solution.

Tools and Utilities – File Comparison

Scooter Software’s Beyond Compare

http://www.scootersoftware.com

Still the best. Since Win 3.1

Cheap!

Actively maintained and updated

Files and FTP

It is my workhorse for site management

Fast, flexible comparison methods

Plugins for images, hex

Use it as your VSS differencing tool in VSS 2005

Tools and Utilities - Other

AW Icons

http://www.awicons.com

Lite version free for home use

Tools and Utilities - System

SysInternals.com

Now at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

FileMon – File activity monitor

RegMon – Registry activity monitor

ProcessExplorer – Task manager on steroids

AutoRuns – See everything that starts up with your OS and disable/delete selectively

Much more. Everything they have is useful and FREE! (Chris Sutton)

Tools and Utilities - Organization

Microsoft OneNote – No more paper notes!

http://office.microsoft.com/onenote

Desktop Search Engines

Windows Desktop Search http://toolbar.msn.com

Google Desktop http://desktop.google.com

Copernic Desktop Search http://www.copernic.com

TimeSnapper – Record your work and play it back

http://www.timesnapper.com

Tools and Utilities - Installation

Inno Setup

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

Free installation creator with companion GUI tools.

Tools and Utilities – Log Files

Microsoft’s Log Parser 2.2

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/tools/logparser/default.mspx

http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=2&subtabid=29#LogParser

Allows querying of XML, CSV log files, Event Logs, Registry, File System and Active Directory

Great for mining data from web log files

I use it daily to pull HTTP 404 and 500 errors out

Part of the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit but can be used independently.

Tools and Utilities - HTTP

Microsoft WFetch

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=840671

Part of the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit, but can be used against any HTTP/S host

An HTTP client with a GUI that allows easily sending requests and examining the results.

Download and install it. Low learning curve.

Tools and Utilities – Tool Listings

Scott Hanselman’s 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2005UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolList.aspx

MadGeek’s Sharp Toolbox

http://sharptoolbox.com/

Web Sites – Design Patterns

Data and Object Factory

http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx

Code Project

http://www.codeproject.com/gen/design/#Design+Patterns

Microsoft Patterns and Practices

http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices

Web Sites – ASP.NET

4 Guys from Rolla

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/

Thorough and well-written articles on a range of ASP.NET topics and other .NET subjects of interest to ASP.NET developers.

ASP.NET Resource Index

http://www.411asp.net

Great source for components and code samples (Jason Brunken)

Web Sites - Interop

Pinvoke.net

http://www.pinvoke.net

All about doing interop with .NET (.NET to COM, .NET to Win32)

Features signatures of interop calls to many DLLs

Wiki allows reader contribution

Web Site Articles - Threading

An Introduction to Programming with C# Threads

http://research.microsoft.com/~birrell/papers/ThreadsCSharp.pdf

What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/08/Concurrency/

Understand the Impact of Low-Lock Techniques in Multithreaded Apps

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/10/MemoryModels/

Web Casts

MSDN WebCasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/ondemand.mspx

MSDN TV

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/

.NET Rocks

http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/

Videos on Channel9

http://channel9.msdn.com/

Web Sites – Other Programming Reference

ASCII Chart – http://www.asciitable.com

.NET Recommended Resources

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