Tag: Tools
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CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2010
CopySourceAsHtml is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 that allows you be able to quickly get your code as HTML from Visual Studio, just like being able to save it as a HTML file from the Save As dialog. It’s very helpful if you frequently post code to blog or send code in email.…
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GhostDoc Tutorial
Earlier I have introduced this excellent comment auto generation tool – GhostDoc. Now you can follow this instructions to get GhostDoc working in just 5 minutes. Download GhostDoc and install GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plugin, so after Visual Studio is launched, you’d need to assign a hotkey for automatic comments generation, or just click…
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Final Visual Studio 2010 available for download
Visual Studio 2010, the best version of Visual Studio ever, is now available for download in Microsoft download center. The build number for RTM VS2010 and CLR4 is 4.0.30319.1. Here is link for free trial Visual Studio 2010 Professional Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Training Resources Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit Visual…
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Microsoft Free SEO Toolkit
Microsoft’s free SEO Toolkit. The SEO Toolkit provides detailed analysis and search engine friendly suggestions to help improve the relevance of your website in search results. http://www.microsoft.com/web/seo Note: this toolkit can only run on Vista and Windows 7
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Span Remote Desktop Across Multiple Monitors
To span remote desktop across multiple monitors, launch an RDP connection using mstsc /span from the command prompt on your machine. This works on Vista/Windows 7. If you have a Win2K3 machine then you need have Terminal Services Client 6.0 installed. You can download it here. Update If you use Remote Desktop Client 7.0 connect…
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Visual Studio plug-in: GhostDoc
Are your tired of documenting you code using C# /// XmlDoc syntax for each and every method? It is time for you to meet SubMain’s GhostDoc. SubMain’s GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plug-in the was design just for you. It will parse your method/property/parameters names and will create a great documentation just for you with…
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Uncompress MSI File
Sometimes I need to unzip MSI file to view its content without actual installing it. I used to use a 3rd party tool named 7zip to extract MSI. Today I discover there is much easier way to do this with windows build in tool msiexec.exe The use msiexec to uncompress MSI file, you need to…
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SysInternals tools now accessible over UNC
Two tools that I use frequently when troubleshot issues on servers are Process Explorer and Process Monitor. Since these are not windows built in tools (though they owned by Microsoft), I always have to go to Sysinternals site and download them one by one. I just notice that SysInternals tools are accessible over a public…
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Snipping Tool in Vista/Win7
Now windows have snipping tool in Vista and Win7. You can use Snipping Tool (normally you can find it at %SystemRoot%system32SnippingTool.exe) to capture a screen shot, or snip, of any object on your screen and then annotate, save, or share the image. Simply use a mouse or tablet pen to capture any of the following…
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Symbolic Links
Vista and WIN7 now supports symbolic links, a feature that has been enjoyed in UNIX for a long time. D:>mklink Creates a symbolic link. MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target /D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file symbolic link. /H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link. /J …