Tag: tools

All blog posts with the tag "tools".

• WSCF.blue Beta Released: Are you doing contract-first?

  Published:5 July 2009

  3 min read

  WSCF.blue is a Visual Studio Add-in designed to bring the benefits of contract-first web service development to those working with WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). It is the latest version of an earlier tool called WSCF and was created by a team of talented developers. The contract-first approach makes web services more interoperable, and the Beta version of WSCF.blue can be downloaded and tested.

• Using REST in NAnt with a custom HTTP Task

  Published:18 June 2009

  3 min read

  This article describes how to make HTTP requests to a REST web service from a NAnt script using a custom task. The HttpClient class from the WCF REST Starter Kit is used, and the source code is available on GitHub. The assembly has been merged with the Microsoft.Http.dll dependency making deployment easier.

• Sysinternals Live

  Published:30 Mar 2009

  2 min read

  Sysinternals Live is a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without downloading them. It includes several useful tools such as ZoomIt, Process Monitor, Process Explorer, TCPView, PsExec, PsKill, PsShutdown and PsFile. There are many more available and it is worth checking out for any Windows user.

• SyntaxHighlighter 2.0

  Published:20 Feb 2009

  1 min read

  SyntaxHighlighter 2.0 has recently been released, featuring smart line wrapping, 100% standards compliance, additional themes and hosted versions of the source files, as well as good documentation on the new wiki. The effort put into this release by Alex Gorbatchev should be commended.

• Moving files between projects in TFS

  Published:28 Jan 2009

  2 min read

  This article discusses how to move files between projects in TFS while keeping their history. It outlines a step-by-step process of using the Source Control Explorer and Solution Explorer to move and include the items, which results in all changes being contained within one Change Set. This keeps the version control database from becoming invalid while preserving the history of the moved files.

• Code Tag Plugin for Windows Live Writer

  Published:13 Jan 2009

  2 min read

  I made a plugin for Windows Live Writer that allows users to easily surround text with the HTML phrase tag. It's easy to install and comes with source code files.