The Windows 8 Customer Preview is upon us! Joining the party are the Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 Betas along with the Windows Server 8 Beta. Links: Windows 8 Customer Preview – Main Site Windows 8 Customer Preview – Setup Windows 8 Customer Preview – ISOs Visual Studio 11 Beta – Main Site Visual [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Tools category.
WinMerge: Not Quite Dead Yet
Every few months or so I go looking for another free diff tool that I like as much as WinMerge (usually in vain) since WM hasn’t released a new version in over 2 years. WinMerge 3, while having been in planning for almost as long, still hasn’t seen any real development traction. Today however, I was surprised [...]
WPF Tools
Went in search of new WPF tools today to support some debugging/performance work I was doing in a large WPF application. I was pleasantly surprised to come across a few new ones that I wasn’t aware of. These are the WPF tools that I know about and use on a periodic basis: Free Tools: Kaxaml Kaxaml is [...]
Making ReSharper Play Nice With StyleCop
I’ve been toying with StyleCop more and more as of late and ran into some situations where ReSharper and StyleCop were fighting each other over code formatting issues. Some manual tweaking reduced the problems, but it got me curious. So I did some research and uncovered a wonderful tool, StyleCop for ReSharper. StyleCop for ReSharper [...]
FxCop 1.36 and StyleCop 4.3
While this is not new news, I realized that finding the link to download FxCop 1.36 is still not as straight forward as I’d like it to be (most links are still pointing to the 1.35 on msdn code or the 1.36 Beta 2 release), so I thought I would add the link here so [...]