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ResXCop

Scans ResX files to warn about embedded binary image resources (which may silently thwart your ability to build and run your code down-level) and optionally removes the offending blobs and back-ports any/all CLR version references to v1.0.3300.  ResXCop takes a slightly more aggressive stance than VSConvert, which leaves the binary data intact, except for the frightening business of back-porting CLR version references in the midst of the base64 stream...!  Not only do I not want to go there, but for reasons described here, I don't want to maintain copies of my binary resources in ResX files, at all.

2004.12.23

TestRunner

Command line unit testing tool -- a cruder, simpler, hassle-free alternative to NUnit.

2004.10.13

Regex Search and Rescue

Command line search-and-replace tool based on .NET's excellent regex engine -- can serve as a drop-in replacement for the lesser regex engine in Visual Studio .NET!  Full source code included.

[Update: I've moved the home of RSaR over to CodePlex.com...  the source and binary are available there, under the MS-PL public license.]

New in version 2.0: 

• BREAKING: The tool now requires .NET Framework v2.0.
• BREAKING: Recursion is now OFF by default; use /s to enable it (/f is no longer supported).
• Change: Column numbers are now reported as 1-based (formerly 0-based) to match expectation of VS 2008.
• BugFix: The tool now gracefully handles failures (eg: access-denied) on files and folders.
• BugFix: The predefined expressions :i and :n have been touched up, to better match the behavior in VS.
• Performance: Winforms assemblies are no longer loaded, when running with cmd line args.
• Reliability: Stronger attempts are made to restore default console output color, upon exit.
• Accessibility: Smarter color choices; improved respect for your default console colors.
• Accessibility: OutputWidth supported on cmd line via /w=<columns>.
• Usability: Minor improvements to the prompt dialog, to support high-DPI, high-contrast, large fonts, etc.

New in version 1.3: 

• Better support for CRLF line endings, misc bug fixes regarding matching at beginning (^) and end ($) of lines.
• Further enhanced output formatting.

New in version 1.2: 

• Better support for Unicode (and improved respect for document encodings, in general).
• Drastically improved output formatting and match-highlighting.
• Refactored code base.

 

2004.10.06

PeekCL

Diagnostic tool for peeking at a running process's command line.  This can be amazingly insightful...

(from the beforetime)

Reggie

A fully-open, debuggable alternative to Microsoft's RegSvr32.exe (and RegTLib.exe) -- a must-have for COM development.

(from the beforetime)

Updated: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:12:00 GMT

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