Whidbey (Web) object browser

Published 19 July 04 06:42 PM | despos

Just a few lines to let you know about an online tool that I think you'll find interesting: DotNetBrowser. The author is my friend Francesco Balena (no blog--shame on him).

Francesco wrote the tool for his own use, then he realized that it would have been useful to others; so he made an ASP.NET version. (What a sweet and noble heart ...)
 
In a nutshell, it is an object browser for .NET 2.0 that is also able to highlight all the types/members/attributes that have been added, removed, or changed since version 1.1. All its pages can be bookmarked, so you can easily point to them from inside your articles, blog, etc. You can even make some sophisticated searches that can't be done with the VS.NET browser. For example, click here to see all the 743 items that are marked with the Obsolete attribute in .NET 2.0 Beta 1. The URL you clicked looks like the following:

http://www.dotnet2themax.com/DotNetBrowser/SearchType.aspx?asm=mscorlib&ns=System&type=ObsoleteAttribute&progress=0&search=3

We will be happy to get comments and suggestions ... 

Comments

# Dirk Maegh said on July 20, 2004 08:49 AM:

Hi there,

I had a tool with the same purpose to list all the contents of a .NET framework together with its version. I quit just there - I did not have a browser for those contents. So nice to have your web page ;-) Thanks!

Maybe it would also be nice to have some more information on how many changes there are as a total on the items shown. So next to every assembly, you could show how many new classes, how many disappeared, how many have changes. On the class level, you show the same but on method level, etc...

Nice going !

Dirk

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