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As SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM status, SharePoint Designer 2010 is now available for free download. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available. Important Note : SharePoint Designer 2010 only connects to SharePoint 2010. To connect to SharePoint 2007 and earlier sites you must continue to use SharePoint Designer 2007. If you elect to install both applications side-by-side, you must

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Having folder size not available in default view of Windows Explorer is always a challenge during investigation of disk space. Here is a free tool which you can use to find out how your disk space is utilized.   Download Folder Size tool

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A big reason for developer community to smile and celebrate. Dev tools team at Microsoft has again done a great job.   Here are few important links : Soma’s launch announcement Watch Launch Keynote Compare Various Editions What's new in .NET Framework 4.0 What's new in Visual Studio 2010 - Rosario

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Some of the most exciting sessions : What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 Hear about some of the new experience-oriented Silverlight 3 features, and see how to build applications for Silverlight 3 using Microsoft Expression Blend and Microsoft Visual Studio. Building Microsoft Silverlight Applications with Eclipse Come learn about plug-in support in Silverlight 2, and how to build a

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Previous Post <<- WCF : Overview of Hosting in IIS This tool is used to manage the registration of ServiceModel with IIS. ServiceModel is required for hosting WCF services in IIS. Although if IIS is already present machine where .NET 3.0 is installed, the ServiceModel gets registered automatically but it case of issues this tool can be used for following :

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Code Analysis is one of the most important activity in development project lifecycle. Its used mainly for following : Analyzing coding standards Understand Code Structure Finding code performing badly Refactoring Viewing metadata of assemblies Finding binding closures Detecting circular dependencies There are many tools like Visual Studio code analysis tool, FxCop,

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Recently while exploring the Microsoft.Cci dll which contains common compiler infrastructure i developed this simple tool for checking circular dependency amongst pre-built assemblies. I have uploaded the alpha release with source code to codeplex. Circular Dependency Check Cci can be used to read metadata of assemblies instead of Reflection technology provided by framework. Cci provides some

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While Visual Studio 2005 has an integrated add-in for profiling managed code, VSProfiler is a stand-alone profiler for managed code. It can be used to profile production systems or machines where Visual Studio can't be installed. VSProfiler - vs_profiler.exe can be found on Visual Studio installation disc in wcu\profiler folder. Executing the vs_profiler.exe installs required tools in Visual

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FxCop is a tool provided by Microsoft for managed code analysis. Its an excellent tool for doing a quality check on your code during and post development. The documentation provided with FxCop is excellent for beginners so i will not demonstrate how to use the tool. I will list down some of the features of this tool to encourage you to start using this tool if you are not using it till now. Its

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Visual Studio 2005 comes with a set of tools to perform load testing of applications and analyze their behavior under load. This tutorial is for beginners and demonstrates how to perform load testing of a web application. Following setups are covered in this tutorial: Recording a web test configure a load test for iterations, user loads, etc. Reading output of load test. The tutorial can be

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CLR team at Microsoft has released the new version of CLRProfiler for .NET 2.0. It can be downloaded from following location. CLRProfiler is mainly used to study the memory usage behavior of managed applications. Some of the graphs available as an output are : Allocation Graph Assembly Graph Function Graph Class Graph Call Graph Its an excellent tool for detecting memory leaks in managed

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Ildasm is one of the most frequently used tool by .NET community. It comes as part of the .net sdk since the very beginning. The main purpose of this tool is to convert the portable executable (PE) file into readable and compilable MSIL code. For beginners let me just explain few things : MSIL : Microsoft Intermediate Language. When you compile your .net source code it gets converted to MSIL

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The various tools accompanying the framework are one of the strongest feature of Microsoft.NET technology. I will be covering most of the tools here with sample usage. So, i have added a new section in right sidebar on tools. Other Posts XML Schema Definition Tool (Xsd.exe) XML Notepad ILMerge : Assembly Merging Utility

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XSD.exe which comes as part of .net framework is mainly used to generate XML schemas or .net classes based on XML schema. Some of the generations possible with this tool are : XDR -> XSD : generates xml schema based on xml data reduced schema XML -> XSD : generates xml schema based on xml data file XSD -> Dataset : generates code of dataset based class which can be used to read xml

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XML Notepad is a UI based XML browsing & editing tool built using .NET framework 2.0. It is developed by XML tools team at Microsoft. The main features of this tool are : Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick editing of node names and values. Real time XML schema validation with errors and warning shown. Intellisense based on schema attached. Mapping of Namespace URIs and

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Microsoft has released the CTP of its next generation documentation tool code named 'SandCastle'. It can be used to generate MSDN style documentation. It can be downloaded from here. ~tata & take care~ Other Posts Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" March CTP Released Increasing Productivity/Discipline using Project Templates Enhancements coming up in Orcas ILMerge : Assembly Merging Utility

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I remember in .NET 1.0 sdk there used be a sample which demonstrated how to modify registry through CSharp. By doing so it used to add an item into the context menu of folders in windows explorer. The best thing about that item was that it can be used to open a command window directly into that folder which is very useful if you work with lot of console applications. Well, i couldn't find

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Few important points to be noted before we get to the usage of this utility. Its a utility which merges multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. It will not work if assembly contains unmanaged code. Its a console application but all its functionality is available programmatically also. The type of first assembly in the list of input assemblies determines whether target assembly is exe

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