Steve Wellens

Programming in the .Net environment

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Free Tools that I Use

Here are tools I use on a regular basis. They have attributes I find essential:

  1. They are free.
  2. They do one thing and they do it well.

XPathBuilder: Dynamically searches XML: Bubba Soft

Expresso: Design and test regular expressions before you compile: Ultrapico

WinMerge: Compares files and directories: WinMerge

XVI32: A hex editor. With this I learned about the BOM: Christian Maas

While these tools are great, they can really add to your productivity when you integrate them into Visual Studio. When you right click a file in the solution and use "Open With…" You can add these tools to the list of applications:

I hope you find this useful.

Steve Wellens

Posted: Nov 11 2008, 05:04 PM by SGWellens | with 2 comment(s) |
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Guy Harwood said:

been looking for a good, free regex windows program.

thanks!

# November 12, 2008 5:40 AM

SGWellens said:

It will even create commented code for you:

/// <summary>
///  Regular expression built for C# on: Wed, Nov 12, 2008, 08:16:58 AM
///  Using Expresso Version: 3.0.2766, http://www.ultrapico.com
/// 
///  A description of the regular expression:
/// 
///  [Zip]: A named capture group. [\d{5}]
///      Any digit, exactly 5 repetitions
///  -
///  [Sub]: A named capture group. [\d{4}]
///      Any digit, exactly 4 repetitions
/// 
///
/// </summary>
public static Regex regex = new Regex(
      "(?<Zip>\\d{5})-(?<Sub>\\d{4})",
    RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
    | RegexOptions.CultureInvariant
    | RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace
    | RegexOptions.Compiled
    );

# November 12, 2008 9:17 AM
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