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Jetbrains Omea - both source and companion files - is now distributed under GNU GPL v2 License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
For technical details, visit the dedicated Confluence page: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/OMEA/this+link
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools is a set of enhancements and tools that complement and improve the user experience of VSTS Database Edition 2008
Features
• ChecksumCondition – You can use this test condition to verify that the checksum of the data set returned by a database unit test matches the checksum of an expected data set.
• ExpectedSchemaTestCondition – You can use this test condition to verify that the column names and data types of the returned data set match expected values.
Data Generator Improvements
• New Data Generator Wizard – This new wizard creates a data generation plan that is configured to copy data from a source database. You can use this wizard when you need to copy most of your data from a live source, but need to make small changes to ensure privacy.
MSBuild Task Improvements
• SqlAnalysis Task – You can use this build task to run T-SQL Static Code Analysis from MSBuild.
TSQL Static Code Analysis
• Static Code Analysis - A precursor to the functionality that will be in future versions of VSTS that will allow you to perform Static Code Analysis on T-SQL code.
Refactoring
• “Move Schema” Refactoring - Allows a user to right click on an object and move it to a different but existing schema
• SP Rename Generation - Generate a new script that will contain sp_renames for all rename refactored objects that the user can then execute.
• Wildcard Expansion - Automatically expand the wildcard in a select to the appropriate columns.
• Fully-Qualified Name Support - Automatically inject fully-qualified names when absent in a script
• Refactoring extended to Dataset - Refactor into strongly typed dataset definitions
MSBuild Tasks
• Data / Schema Compare Build Tasks - MSBuild tasks that can generate scripts as if the user had run the Data / Schema compare UI
Schema View
• API Access to Schema View - Insert / Update / Delete to schema View and list schema objects and their associated files
Dependency Tool Window
• Dependency Tree - Show the dependencies ( incoming / outgoing ) for selected schema objects in a new tool window
Miscellaneous Tools
• Script Preprocessor - Expand SQLCMD variables and include files and command line version (sqlspp.exe) & an MSBuild version ( wraps the command line version )
Download Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools
SVN-IIS gives access to Subversion via MS IIS
The main goal of this project is to make a direct interface from a SVN repository to WebDav interface running on MS IIS.
Features
Prerequisites
[Via dotnetkicks.com]
Expression Blend 2 September Preview is available for download
New features
More details available at the Expression Team's blog.
Visit the Expression Blend 2 September Preview to download and install the latest build.
This utility provides you with the ability to completely manage your Subversion(SVN) Repositories & Server conviently and effectively without the hassle of command-line tools.
PainlessSVN compliments your current SVN Client and Server software, and is easily deployable.It doesn't require any time at all to setup for your current environment.
Features
SketchPath is an XPath development and XML analysis tool. It provides an integrated graphical environment for viewing XML files , developing XPath expressions against them and managing the expressions in file libraries.
File libraries of XPath expressions can be saved and loaded as .NET DataTable XML serialized objects. SketchPath supports XML Packages as used by Open XML and ODF.
This .NET tool was originally designed to assist XSLT developers at all levels, but should equally suit any developers or analysts who currently work with XPath 1.0 or who would benefit from using it to exploit XML.
Features
Watch Flash Demo of SketchPath
[Via Larkware News]
DevExpress has announced that Refactor! For ASP.NET is free for download.
Features
You can find more details on each refactoring from Mark's post.
Make sure to check out the informative 12 minute screencast on the ASP.NET refactoring.
ccm is a tool that analyzes C/C++ and C# code and reports back on Cyclomatic Complexity.Cyclomatic complexity is computed using a graph that describes the control flow of the program. The nodes of the graph correspond to the function of a program. A directed edge connects two nodes if the second function might be executed immediately after the first function. This technique is useful to determine how complex the function of code is.
ccm is a command line tool that accepts the path to directory you want to analyze. Using an /XML switch it will output the result as XML, making it easy to integrate with other tools, such as CruiseControl.NET, etc.
Usage
Running ccm without any parameters tells you about the available switches.
C:\Dev\ccm\bin>ccm
Missing parameters.
Usage:
ccm directory [/r] [/xml] [/n:x] [/e:folderlist] [/v]
switches:
r - act recursively on folders
xml - output into xml
n:x - list n-number of metrics (defaults to 30)
v - verbose
e:folderlist - comma-separated list of folders or paths to exclude
ccm.exe ..\..\relativepath-to-sources /n:15
A list of programs for keyboard maniacs - they helps you rapidly find programs or documents from within the depths of the start menu (or other directories).
