Frans Bouma , one of the people I highly respect in the blogsphere as an architect and ISV (Built LLBLGen - one of the strongest ORMs out there for .NET) Just released HnD , which stands for Help and Discuss - an open source forum and support system built on top of LLGBLGen data access. ''Yesterday, we released HnD , which stands for Help and ...

Leon just posted a new tool he developed called ''TFS Permission Manager'' for managing Team Foundation Server permissions in an easier fashion. Way to go! Here are some benefits in the tool: ''Using this tool you can: Add or remove TFS group membership, Reporting Services role membership and SharePoint role membership Set Server and Project-level ...

A little bird tells me that in a few hours you'll be able to get Automise (that's the system admin's version of FinalBuilder - my favorite build automation tool) over here for a 90% discount - less than $20 instead of $195 for a 24 hour window. That's a good way to draw attention to yourself :) As a happy FinalBuilder user I can tell you that ...

Oh, I could have seriously used the Team System Add-on from Attrice's SideKick project last week at TechEd when one of my Demos Broke. The add-in allows version control operations for selected build type to be performed in Team Explorer. It provides the following commands: Check out selected build type .proj file with single click Edit checked out ...

If you do any work with stored procedures and SQL databases, SQL Refactor should look very interesting to you...

Yet another tool to help with integration tests against the database layer(got this by email: ''I wanted to let you know about an open source tool I created to help unit test the data access layer. http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=MassDataHandler This tool uses knowledge of the database schema to do all the grunt ...

Perf+ is an advanced free extension of perfmon with a tabbed interface and a set of predefined counters you can modify and share with others. Great for real time viewing of a host machine's stats quickly. Still in the alpha stage, here's something I created to make it easier for me to find performance problems on servers. I decided to make this ...

The monthly iteration release of Regulazy is up over here . Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy ''point and click'' user interface , and allows creating regular expressions for simple searches almost instantly without requiring Regex syntax knowledge from the end user! What's New Version 1.03 - 9/10/06 Fixed ...

Here's a great little program that saves many lots of headaches when I take my laptop to different places. It's called NetSetMan (as in ''Network Settings Manager''), and it has a free version with 99% of the features most of us need (the pro also has the ability to change the proxy settings). Very cool, and very useful. NetSetMan is a network ...

Speaking of DnrTV, you really have to watch the show where Scott Hanselman shows off how to use various tools from SysInternals . These tools could seriously save you hours of work, sweat, tears, blood and ink, and they are totally free (hopefully it will stay that way now that Microsoft has bought them) Download it, show it to all new devs at ...

There's a new ''Secure'' browser out there, based on Firefox, called TorPark . ''TorPark is a program which allows you to surf the Internet anonymously. Download Torpark and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, work, or in public. Torpark will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an ...

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This site was just launched , and I got an email from a friend who is connected to the site owners. Sounds like it might have some appeal to us early adopters: Beta Marker . I'm thinking -- del.icio.for early adopters: '' Beta Marker is about software you like. You'll discover the newest software releases here, all submitted by Beta Marker ...

There's a new monthly version (1.02) out of Regulazy. You can grab it over here . (if the link is broken try http://tools.osherove.com/ ) Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy ''point and click'' user interface , and allows creating regular expressions for simple searches almost instantly without requiring ...

If you do a lot of administration on remote machines concurrently, you might know that there are some programs out there that allow you to control multiple remote desktops under the same window. One of the best free solutions I've come to love in this area is VisionApp Remote Desktop , or ''vRD'': Not only does it handle the desktops easily and ...

It's back, and it's bigger than ever, tighter around the edges, and storms into your hard drive faster than you can say ''RegEdit''. It's Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows If you're a geek, power user or developer, this list has tools in it you didn't know you needed until you saw them (and there are ...

Jeffery has a nice list of the features in Resharper he uses most often in his daily coding. The list has screenshots and shortcut descriptions, so it's a good cheat sheet for anyone wanting to get into Resharper fast and put it good use. I use each and every one of these. Recommended!

Direct Access seems like a nice little utility I could use in my day to day work: from LarkWare : ''Here's how it works. You define ''actions'' within the direct access interface. An action can be opening a Web site, launching an application, composing a new e-mail message, or typing out a chunk of text. Each action gets assigned a set of ...

Hmm. SharpRobo seems like something that might *start* to satisfy those who just can't do without UI Testing and have been looking for a way to do it from within their unit test frameworks (such as NUnit or FIT): ''SharpRobo is a Functional Testing and Recording tool for WinForm applications written in .NET supported language. It supports all the ...

Two things are on my plate today (small as they may be..) Live Writer is my new blog post writer, and it's pretty cool (via Scott ). Main reasons: It has spell checking built in, and it posts nicely into Community Server (though it does not detect it automatically like it did for Scott's DasBlog blog platform. Setting it up was a breeze ...