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StyleCop

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:43:21 GMT

StyleCop, also known as Source Analysis, analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of best practice style and consistency rules.

Source Analysis is similar in many ways to FxCop, but FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, FxCop focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation. Most of that information is stripped away during the compilation process, and thus cannot be analyzed by FxCop.

Source Analysis comes with a set of default rules analyzers covering approximately 200 best practice rules. These rules are full compatible with the default layout settings in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008.

Specifically, these rules cover the following, in no particular order:
- Layout of elements, statements, expressions, and query clauses
- Placement of curly brackets, parenthesis, square brackets, etc
- Spacing around keywords and operator symbols
- Line spacing
- Placement of method parameters within method declarations or method calls
- Standard ordering of elements within a class
- Formatting of documentation within element headers and file headers
- Naming of elements, fields and variables
- Use of the built-in types
- Use of access modifiers
- Allowed contents of files
- Debugging text

After installation, Source Analysis can be run from within the Visual Studio IDE, and can also be integrated into MSBuild-based command line builds.

Categories:

Code analysis - Standards verifiers

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FxCop

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:47:37 GMT

Code analysis tool that checks .NET assemblies for conformance to the Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines.
FxCop uses MSIL parsing, and callgraph analysis to inspect assemblies for more than 200 defects in the following areas: library design, globalization, naming conventions, performance, interoperability and portability, security and usage.

Features include:
- GUI and command line versions
- SDK to create your own rules
- Supports analyzing .NET 1.x, .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.x components
- Provides support for .NET 3.5 SP1

Categories:

Code analysis - Standards verifiers

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Typemock Isolator

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:40:17 GMT

Mocking framework that enables any .NET type to be isolated for being unit tested and functionally verified. In addition, any already written legacy code or third party component can be isolated and consequently complex and cross components logic and can be performed.

Features include:
- Ability to mock any concrete class and all members: public, protected, private, virtual, non-virtual, constructors and sealed
- Mocking takes place on the fly, working on your production assemblies
- Expectation recording
- Refactoring and IntelliSense support using Natural Mocks
- Built-in argument checks
- Supports ref and out arguments
- Allows arbitrary calls, or reject any method calls that weren't explicitly expected
- Enables you to specify sequenced and default return values and exceptions
- Support for properties and indexes
- Verify mode, to verify arguments without mocking the code
- Ability to specify dynamic return values based on passed arguments
- Enables you to validate the arguments passed to the mocked types
- Specify custom checking of arguments
- Arrange Act Assert API (AAA)
- Supports .NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5
- Synergy with Finalbuilder and DotTracer

Previous name: TypeMock.NET

Categories:

Testing

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CodeSmith

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:09:25 GMT

Template based code generator for any ASCII-based language.
CodeSmith templates use a syntax nearly identical to ASP.NET. The code generated can be customized by the use of properties. CodeSmith comes with an integrated template development environment, an extensible metadata system that includes database schema and XML sources standard, and statement completion to help building custom templates.

Features include:
- Execute custom templates
- Extensible metadata
- SchemaExplorer schema discovery API
- XML support
- Sub-template support; Sample templates; Template caching
- Console client
- CodeSmith Explorer GUI client; CodeSmith Studio IDE
- Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008 integration
- CodeSmith API
- Merging support
- Batch code generation
- MSBuild support
- ActiveSnippets: like Visual Studio 2005 snippets, but with the power of CodeSmith available to execute any logic or access any metadata to control the output of your snippets
- CodeSmith Maps: allows you to create dictionary style maps of things like SQL to C# data type mappings
- Templates for .netTiers, NHibernate, PLINQO, NuSoft Framework

Categories:

Code generation

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RGreatEx

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:32:49 GMT

Extends ReSharper with a number of features related to application localization, globalization and resources.
RGreatEx provides resource refactorings like "Move string to resource" and "Rename resource", analyzes string literal usages and suggests moving them to resources, adds context actions for string manipulation, generates safer resx code wrapper, and more.

Features include:
- Context actions
- Highlightings
- Refactoring methods
- Custom tools
- Options
- Supported languages: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET

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SmartInspect

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:26:09 GMT

Logging tool for debugging and monitoring .NET, Java, and Delphi applications.
SmartInspect helps you to identify bugs, find solutions to customer problems and gives you an understanding of how your software works in different environments and under different circumstances.

Features include:
- Native logging libraries for .NET, Java, and Delphi
- Log messages, errors, objects, source code, files and more
- Full source code of libraries included
- Viewer application for analyzing the logging information
- Monitor multiple threads, multiple processes and distributed systems
- Support for TCP/IP and log files
- Support for log rotation
- Redistributable console
- Enable and disable logging per session
- Code templates and snippets
- Integration with Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005/2008, Delphi 6/7/8/2005/2006/2007, C++Builder 2006/2007, C#Builder 1/2006, JBuilder X/2005/2007, Eclipse 3.0/3.1/3.2/3.3

Categories:

Tracing - Logging - Monitoring

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ANTS Profiler

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:41:07 GMT

Identifies performance bottlenecks in applications written in any of the languages available on the .NET Framework.
To code profile your application, you use your application as normal, while running ANTS Profiler. ANTS Profiler then records the frequency and time spent in each line of your code, as you are using your application, and displays the results in a variety of formats.

Features include:
- Profile application memory use
- Profile both .NET desktop applications and ASP.NET web applications
- Memory profiling
- Snapshots and resetting the profiler
- Save results to HTML or XML
- Ready for Windows Vista

Categories:

Profiling - Debugging

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IntelliCommands

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:41:59 GMT

Add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 with features such as Refactor Commands, Region Commands, Data Commands, and Interfaces.

Features include:
- Region Commands: organises members within designated #region directives
- Refactorings: Proxy Type, Comparer Type, Sortable Collection Type, Field Encapsulations, and more
- Data Commands: Business Object Generator, Virtual Business Object Generator, Xmlize Type
- Interfaces: IDisposable, ISerializable, ICloneable, IComparer, IComparable
- Miscellaneous tools: Hex Tool, Encryption Key Tool...
- Support for C# and VB

Previous name: Smarties 2008

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LightSpeed

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:56:21 GMT

Convention-over-configuration based domain model framework.
LightSpeed employs patterns from domain-driven design such as Repository, Unit of Work and Value Object.

Features include:
- Convention over configuration: no mapping files and minimal attributes
- Supports idiomatic .NET domain models: Validation, data binding, property change notification
- Uses LCG instead of reflection and smart query batching for performance
- Employs best practice patterns: Session-per-request, Unit of Work, etc.
- Supports caching including memcached
- Supports single table inheritance, value objects, generics, nullable types, optimistic concurrency and System.Transactions
- Database support for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite
- Full LINQ support to all supported databases
- Designed with testability in mind
- Soft Delete so that data is never deleted, just marked as deleted
- Polymorphic querying: querying types in your inheritance hierarchy made easier
- Support for nested units of work
- Debug Visualizer to aid generated SQL inspection
- Support for projections
- Visual Studio 2008 designer for modeling entities with database round tripping support

A free express version of LightSpeed is available.

Categories:

Object-relational mapping

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Iron Speed Designer

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:01:48 GMT

Application generator for building n-tier .NET web applications.
Iron Speed Designer works by translating a declarative description of your application into a working n-tier application with well-partitioned service layers including: the presentation layer, the application layer, the database layer.
Iron Speed Designer guides you through all the steps: selecting database tables, creating Web pages, adding page controls, and customizing the resulting application.

Features include:
- Web page editing and customization
- Support for third-party controls
- Code customization
- Support for Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008
- Support for C# and VB.NET
- Support for Microsoft Access, SQL Server 7/2000/2005, MSDE 2000, Oracle 9i and 10g, MySQL 5.0 and 5.1

Features for generated applications:
- Custom page layout
- Filtering, sorting and navigation
- Internationalization & Localization
- Source code generation

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VisualSVN

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:08:58 GMT

Subversion (SVN) integration for Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008.

Features include:
- Transparent file operations: VisualSVN catches add, rename and delete operations in Visual Studio and translates them into correct Subversion commands transparently.
- Status icons: VisualSVN shows the status of your files and folders inside Visual Studio's Solution Explorer.
- Subversion commands: VisualSVN provides access to the most useful Subversion commands at places you need them.

Categories:

Code versioning - Source control

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moq

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:20:58 GMT

Mocking library for developed from scratch to take advantage of .NET 3.5 (e.g. LINQ expression trees) and C# 3.0 features (e.g. lambda expressions).

Features include:
- Strongly-typed: no strings for expectations, no object-typed return values or constraints
- VS intellisense integration: everything supports full VS intellisense, from setting expectations, to specifying method call arguments, return values, etc.
- No Record/Reply idioms to learn. Just construct your mock, set your expectations, use it and optionally verify them.
- Granular control over mock behavior with a simple enumeration.
- Mock both interfaces and classes.
- Override expectations: can set default expectations in a fixture setup, and override as needed on tests.
- Pass constructor arguments for mocked classes.
- Deep MarshalByRefObject support: constructs underlying proxied object, and passes calls down to it if there are no expectations overriding them. Useful for Windows Forms controls and other System.ComponentModel.Component-derived classes.

Categories:

Testing

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Tree Surgeon

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:57:11 GMT

.NET development tree generator.
Tree Surgeon sets up development trees using a set of best practices. Just give it the name of your project, and it will set up a development tree for you.
A development tree is a folder preconfigured for the development of a new project with Visual Studio (2003, 2005, 2008) solution and projects, as well as projects for builds (NAnt), unit tests (NUnit), code coverage (NCover), etc.

Categories:

RAD - Dev automation

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ReSharper

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:59:24 GMT

Add-in for Visual Studio that provides C# and VB.NET coding assistance, on-the-fly error highlighting and quick error correction, as well as support for code refactoring or unit testing features.

Features include:
- Syntax and error highlighting
- Error quick-fixes
- Refactoring
- Navigation
- Code assistance, code completion, code formatting
- Code generation
- Search
- Live templates
- ASP.NET editing
- NAnt and MSBuild scripts editing
- Supports Visual Studio 2008/2005/2003, C# (up to version 3), VB.NET (up to version 8)

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BizBlox

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:18:30 GMT

Toolkit for object/relational mapping.

Features include:
- Bundled BizBlox Builder tool reads your SQL Scripts to create your data (entity) classes and finder classes. SQL scripts can be generated from the SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager or hand written.
- Code synchronization so you can import changes to your schema back in to the code without affecting your code changes or finder methods.
- Uses ADO.NET with caching techniques.
- Provides support for transactions.
- Query library and built in multi language - multi character-set search engine. No need to write SQL again.
- Includes NUnit test suite source code for validation and code examples.

Categories:

Object-relational mapping

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