If you haven’t seen them already, there are a bunch of sample applications available for SQL 2005 from Microsoft. These include: Internet Explorer Favorites Manager Skills Manager Survey Manager Help Desk Web Reports Windows Reports In addition, there are also a number of Starter Kit apps available...

Frans announced yesterday that LLBLGen 2.0 has been released! I’ve been using LLBLGen happily for several years now. It is a very solid ORM tool and I’m looking forward to using the new version going forward. You can read a list of new features and enhancements here. If you haven’t...

Hmm. SharpRobo seems like something that might *start* to satisfy those who just can't do without UI Testing and have been looking for a way to do it from within their unit test frameworks (such as NUnit or FIT): "SharpRobo is a Functional Testing and Recording tool for WinForm applications written in...

Jeffery has a nice list of the features in Resharper he uses most often in his daily coding. The list has screenshots and shortcut descriptions, so it's a good cheat sheet for anyone wanting to get into Resharper fast and put it good use. I use each and every one of these. Recommended!

There's a new monthly version (1.02) out of Regulazy. You can grab it over here . (if the link is broken try http://tools.osherove.com/ ) Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy "point and click" user interface , and allows creating regular expressions for simple searches...

NDepend 2.0 just came out , and it *looks* to be a really awesome tool for understanding your's architecture and status, especially dependencies between components, in a visual way. But from the demos on the site, it really does feel like you'd need to read a whole book about using it before even starting...

Wouldn't it be cool if you could write something like this in your winform apps? : [RunInUIThread] protected virtual void DoSomeUIStuff() { this.Text = "hey" } Download the binary files from here. (here are the source files ) ----------------- Update : Hammet notes that such a facility exists in Castle...

NDepend 2.0 just came out , and it *looks* to be a really awesome tool for understanding your's architecture and status, especially dependencies between components, in a visual way. But from the demos on the site, it really does feel like you'd need to read a whole book about using it before even starting...

There's a new monthly version (1.02) out of Regulazy. You can grab it over here . (if the link is broken try http://tools.osherove.com/ ) Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy "point and click" user interface , and allows creating regular expressions for simple searches...

Jeffery has a nice list of the features in Resharper he uses most often in his daily coding. The list has screenshots and shortcut descriptions, so it's a good cheat sheet for anyone wanting to get into Resharper fast and put it good use. I use each and every one of these. Recommended!