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Work Item Manager
This tool by Telerik is a gem that made my work with TFS a lot easier and enjoyable: TFS Work Item Manager & TFS Project Dashboard Go get it. It’s free. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
Posted 03 December 09 10:58 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Add-in Express
These past weeks I’ve playing around with Excel add-ins. Developing an Excel add-in with ribbon customizations, formulas, and task panes is not an easy task. VSTO doesn’t help a lot. So I’ve been using this great toolset from Add-in Express: Add-in Express Read More...
Posted 08 July 09 10:56 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Dropbox
Some things just work pretty fine! The first public beta of Dropbox was made available recently. For me this is particularly useful to share files since I normal don't use more than one computer. Like the images you can see bellow:     Share Read More...
Posted 12 September 08 04:16 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Google Chrome
Everybody is talking about this so I had to take a look. http://www.google.com/chrome This makes for my 3rd browser. I use Firefox by default, IE8 Beta 2 just because it works better with our intranet, and now Chrome to see if it is that good. I saw the Read More...
Posted 03 September 08 11:35 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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PicLens for Firefox
As time passes, I find myself doing all the browsing with Firefox. Today I installed version 3 because a colleague pointed me to the PicLens add-on . This add-on is simple amazing! Another reason to forget about IE. :) Share this post: email it! | bookmark Read More...
Posted 14 August 08 03:19 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Xobni and Outlook
If you, like me, use Outlook for email, you'll find this tool very interesting. The search feature, just for itself, justifies the download. http://www.xobni.com/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
Posted 18 June 08 01:17 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Code Generation - GeneratedCodeAttribute
All the analysis tools that come with Visual Studio 2008, allow you to suppress analysis on files that were automatically generated by tools and are supposed to be regenerated at some point in time. The question is how do these tools know that a code Read More...
Posted 02 June 08 03:22 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft Source Code Analysis Tool for C#
After almost two months working on this , things are finally falling on their correct place. Today the Microsoft Source Code Analysis Tool (aka StyleCop) was brought to my attention. And this thing is really cool. Just the right tool I was missing in Read More...
Posted 29 May 08 03:44 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Learning LINQ Fast - LINQPad
While thinking a little more about LINQ, I found this powerful and simple tool called LINQPad. It's a straightforward little tool that includes a LINQ interpreter and a query editor. It supports all "variations" of LINQ. I find it useful to Read More...
Posted 17 April 08 03:32 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Customizing Visual Studio 2008 WCF Proxy Generator
I was looking for info about customizing the default Visual Studio 2008 WCF proxy generator. Turns out that extending this custom tool behavior is really simple. This article explains it really good: Customizing WCF Proxy Generation in Visual Studio 2008 Read More...
Posted 06 March 08 03:44 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta
In case you didn't noticed it, the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 is available from here: Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit I've just installed it (really smooth setup). Apart from a slightly slicker UI, I really don't notice any interesting new Read More...
Posted 06 March 08 03:44 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008
The first version of PowerCommands has been published on the Visual Studio Gallery: http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx?ExtensionID=df3f0c30-3d37-4e06-9ef8-3bff3508be31 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=PowerCommands&ReleaseId=559 Read More...
Posted 03 March 08 12:36 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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AssemblyResolve and Visual Studio 2008
Beware of the following bug in Visual Studio 2008 using the AppDomain's AssemblyResolve event: AppDomain.AssemblyResolve Bug Apparently this event is not always fired when the code is hosted in Visual Studio 2008 (for add-ins for example). This works(ed) Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 04:36 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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GhostDoc and Visual Studio 2008
The version of GhostDoc for Visual Studio 2008 is available here: http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 04:58 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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ResXFileCodeGeneratorEx for Visual Studio 2008
There is a recent version of this tool that is compatible with Visual Studio 2008. You can download it here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/ResXFileCodeGeneratorEx.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 03:36 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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