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Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:20:40 GMT

Add-in for Visual Studio that adds functionality to the LINQ to SQL (DBML) diagram designer in Visual Studio 2008, and to the ADO.NET Entity Framework designer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1.
It adds menu options for synchronizing LINQ to SQL designer diagrams with the underlying database, and for renaming LINQ to SQL (DBML) and EF (EDMX) classes and properties to use .NET naming conventions.

Categories:

Persistence - Data-tier

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Ittia DB

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:46:45 GMT

ACID-compliant transactional embeddable database engine.

Product family:
- Ittia DB-SQL Standard: Embed the stand-alone library directly into an application for data indexing, crash recovery, and optional run-time SQL queries.
- Ittia DB-SQL Plus: Share database files between threads, processes, and devices using Ittia's lightweight data server, designed to support a high level of concurrency even in low-memory environments.

Features include:
- ACID transaction logging
- Indexed search
- Run-time SQL query engine (implements ANSI SQL-89 and much of SQL 2003).
- Portable C, C++, Java, .NET APIs
- Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, vxWorks, etc.)
- Bounded run-time memory, configurable at run-time.
- Data is buffered in memory to automatically reduce flash wear.
- Multi-threaded and client/server shared access
- Strong data type support
- Internationalization support (UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 Unicode strings)
- Dynamic schema alteration

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DBMS

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PowerCommands

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:47:06 GMT

Set of extensions for Visual Studio 2008.

Features include:
- Enable/Disable PowerCommands in Options dialog
- Format document on save / Remove and Sort Usings on save
- Remove and Sort Usings
- Clear All Panes
- Copy Path / Open Containing Folder / Open Command Prompt
- Email CodeSnippet
- Insert Guid Attribute
- Show All Files
- Close All / Undo Close
- Collapse Projects
- Copy Class / Paste Class
- Copy References / Paste References / Copy As Project Reference
- Edit Project File
- Unload Projects / Reload Projects
- Extract Constant
- Clear Recent File List / Clear Recent Project List
- Transform Templates

Categories:

IDEs - IDE add-ins

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SequenceViz

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:18:52 GMT

Tool that generates sequence diagrams by reverse engineering .NET assemblies.

Features include:
- Sequence diagrams
- Assembly stats
- Dependency explorer
- Quick search
- .NET Reflector add-in

Categories:

Object browsing - Assembly viewers

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AppLife Update

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:17:27 GMT

Automatic application updating for .NET applications.

Features include:
- API to customize the update process
- Console application for integrating update publishing into your automated build process. MSBuild and Finalbuilder based wrapper actions available for download.
- Localized updating interface
- Update clients using AppLife Update engine, or use the AppLife Update distribution system to distribute and execute MSI-based upgrades and patches, or distribute your own custom updater executable
- Cryptographic update package signature verification
- Download updates using Secure Socket Layers (SSL)
- Access secured network folders
- Securely elevate privileges for update execution
- Apply updates silently
- Use any web or file server; Update over any common network protocol.

Categories:

Deployment - Installation

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Tools for Framework Architecture Verification

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:12:59 GMT

Suite of tools primarily aimed at validating the architecture of a framework.

Included tools:
- Deps: produces dependency diagrams between assemblies, based both on implementation, as well as API-only. It also carries out cycle detection analysis. The tool additionally outputs some general-interest statistics (e.g. number of types, number of members, etc).
- Layering: verifies that a layering and grouping diagram is indeed satisfied by a set of assemblies.
- PotentialCallers: lists all the methods that call, directly or indirectly, a set of methods.

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Exception Hunter

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:46:50 GMT

Analyzes your .NET assembly for possible exceptions.
Exception Hunter is an analysis tool that finds and reports the set of possible exceptions your functions might throw – before you ship. With it, you can locate unhandled exceptions, down to the line of code that is throwing the exceptions.

Features include:
- graphical user interface
- command-line executable
- analysis engine for predicting the possible set of exceptions that can be thrown by a function
- ability to drill from assembly down to method level
- filters and options to avoid including exceptions caused by one-off initialization code
- stack trace for exceptions

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LINQ to Active Directory

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:54 GMT

Custom LINQ query provider that allows querying objects in Active Directory.

Internally, queries are translated into LDAP filters which are sent to the server using the System.DirectoryServices .NET Framework library.

Features include:
- Translates into LDAP filters according to RFC 2254
- Entity model with support of propagating updates back
- Supports mappings to both the System.DirectoryServices (.NET) and ActiveDs (COM) APIs

Categories:

Miscellaneous

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Athena

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:04:01 GMT

LINQ to Flickr API.

Athena lets you query and make changes to a Flickr photo stream with LINQ query syntax. It can be used to query (search by tag, literal or user), insert or delete photos, add/ delete comments, query popular tags, people, do authentication and more.

Features include:
- Add/remove photos feature
- View single photo
- Automated login process, supported both for desktop and web application
- Take and Skip methods
- Full text Search by SearchMode.FreeText
- Tag only search by SearchMode.Tags with TagMode := AND or OR
- Search by user along with SearchText
- Comments query/add/delete
- List of popular tags
- Query people by NSID or username
- Order by DateTaken and DatePosted
- Anonymous query projection
- Query Popular tags, order by score, title or period
- Query photos by Extras option , Turn on Safe Search
- Update Photo Title, Description, Update comments

Categories:

Miscellaneous

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LinqExtender

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:59:00 GMT

Toolkit for creating custom LINQ providers without knowing anything of how expression is parsed or processed and focusing only on the business logic.
To create your LINQ provider with LinqExtender, you extend its query class, declare the query object and override some methods to put your logic and its done.

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Miscellaneous

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Lexpa

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:51:59 GMT

Inno Setup integration for Visual Studio that allows you to create and build Inno Setup projects using Visual Studio 2005.

Features include:
- Configurable syntax coloring for Inno Setup script files
- Visual Studio 2005 IDE integration
- Support of TFS (as well as other Source Code Control providers)
- Participation in solution build process (build order, dependencies…)
- MSBuild support
- Ability to set Pre- and Post-build commands for Inno Setup project
- Quick jump to the source code when error occurred from Error-list window

Categories:

Deployment - Installation

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ODX.NET

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:47:22 GMT

Object-relational mapping library.

Features include:
- Inheritance (both single table & multiple table patterns) and polymorphism
- 1:N, N:N relationships, with integrity control
- Lazy loading
- Client entity cache
- Offline mode support (Multiple server connection support; Merging data sources; Constraint conflicts resolution)
- Flexible event model
- Save points and persistent snapshots
- Full .NET Remoting support
- On-the-fly proxy generation
- Transactions and optimistic concurrency
- XML data source with support for concurent access
- Supports OLEDB, ODBC, etc. Tested on ORACLE, PostgreSQL, MS Access, MS SQL Server CE.
- Data replication algorithm including constraint handling
- Paging
- Custom SQL selects
- SQL injection protection

Categories:

Object-relational mapping

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LinqToRdf

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:36:08 GMT

Semantic web framework for .NET.

LinqToRdf provides a way to integrate Semantic Web queries into your software. At the core of the system sits a LINQ query provider that converts your queries into the SPARQL query language.

Features include:
- a LINQ query provider using both local triple stores with Graph Matching and SPARQL queries on remote stores
- graphical design tools for visual studio 2008 that provide a UML style design surface for the production of both ontologies and .NET domain models

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Miscellaneous

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WCF Visualizers Tool

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:05:27 GMT

Visual Studio debugger visualizers for WCF.

Includes:
- Message Visualizer
- ChannelDispatcher Visualizer
- ServiceDescription Visualizer
- ServiceHost Visualizer
- ServiceEndpoint for the client side
- ClientRuntime Visualizer
- Binding Visualizer
- SecurityContext Visualizer
- Security Visualizer

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Nstrument Snmp Library for .Net

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:03:56 GMT

Library that includes a SNMP control, a Mib parser and a Trap receiver.

Features include:
- The MibService includes pre-compiled C# classes for RFC1213 and RFC1514, but C# classes can be generated for any Mib. Nstrument includes over 1,200 Mibs in the Mib Repository.
- Snmp Service: You can use OID's or the strongly typed C# classes generated from the Mib Parser for requests. Supports both synchronous and asynchronous requests.
- WPF Mib Browser with full source code: provides basic read only functionality for communicating with SNMP agents.
- Support for SNMP v1 and v2c.
- Includes a C# unit test project (good for examples).

Categories:

Internet and communications

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