[Tools] XmlSerializerPreCompiler and XmlPreCompiler
Now in frequent use in my dev environment, I can highly recommend Matthew Nolton's XmlPreCompiler, a GUI front-end to Chris Sells' command-line tool, XmlSerializerPreCompiler. These are very handy when you need to vaidate that some assembly can be serialized. Unfortunately, it appears that I have to drop the XmlPreCompiler.exe and XmlPreCompiler.exe.config directly into the directory where the assemblies I am testing (and their dependencies) exist; I apparently cannot just drop XmlPreCompiler into my \Bin directory or somewhere on my path. If I do that, XmlPreCompiler does not seem to find the assembly's dependencies. The tool still makes my "must have" list.