Category: mini tools list
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Azure tools
Azure storage Explorer : http://azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com/ – like in VS,but simpler and cleaner Windows Azure ASP.NET Providers Sample : http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Windows-Azure-ASPNET-03d5dc14 – utils for fast membership and roles. Small problem on local. More samples here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/ And that will be all,after reading the documentation and understanding the concepts ( for example,if you understand the session problem in…
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Kinect
I have the opportunity to borrow a Kinect hardware – to make an application( I will make a simple anti-theft application). The steps for developing in Kinect are: Download the SDK from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/develop/overview.aspx – it contains the drivers also Connect Kinect to USB,plug in the socket Run the Kinect Explorer or Kinect Shape Game from…
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Transform Mozilla Bookmarks into a list
You have seen that I begin to post “friday links” It is simple,once you have SqlLite Manager add-on for FF. ( add-on,source) Just run the following query ( for the last 7 days bookmarks) by selecting “places.sqllite”: (OK,I must know why I multiply by 1000000 – but,hey – it works ….)
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Programmer tools 2011
List of programmer tools I have re-installed the PC and I have been taken notice of what tools I have on the system now: Magic Disc – can mount .iso files ( for 2 ) Visual Studio – must have for a easy developing path Sql Server 2008 – primary database for me 7-zip –…
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MVC Zip Result
Sometimes you need to send to the user more than 1 file – or,maybe,the file is too large The simplest way is : made a zip file that contains the others. What do you need 1. SharpzipLib from http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sharpziplib/ ( or download via NuGet in VS) 2. obtain the file(s) that you want as a…
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Optimizing EF4 and EDMGen2
Just reading (from Adrian Florea links ) how the EF4 could be optimized : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/PerfEntityFramework.aspx First modification is to “Pre-generated Your View”. For this you must have .ssdl,.csdl,and .msl files – so you change the “Metadata Artifact Processing property to: Copy to Output Directory.”. Then you process the .ssdl,.csdl,and .msl with edmgen in order to…
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EF Profiler and investigating object context
Summary : EF Profiler worth his money ! Long Description : I have finished a application with Entity Framework and POCO – and custom generated (.tt) files. Now it was time to investigate performance – and it was a terrific problem. How EF Prof helped me : 1. Displaying number of ObjectContext created and disposed…
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LogParser,PowerShell and Quick and dirty parsing of IIS files
For a local enterprise IIS system you do not have to resort to Google analytics or other beasts that interprets IIs logs. After all,users are identified through ActiveDirectory,does not matter from what city do they come,and so on. But it will help to have some details of wjhat happened on the system this day( or…
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Logparser quick and dirty
Sometimes you must find information in text files. Many,many text files,like IIS logs or other custom non-regular formats. I have a bot from http://www.imified.com/ – and I log the messages with log4net in text files,with another messages. An entry looks like that : System.ArgumentException: ;channel=private;botkey=<guid>;userkey=<guid>;user=name@yhaoo.com;network=Yahoo;msg=hello;step=1;value0=hello;to=asdasd And there are multiple log files that I want to…
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file helpers
More than one time you need to let users / application import bulk data in your system . I have had many cases – data is old data from old software,that is exported in some text files,usually csv. In order to import fast the data,I used FileHelpers from http://www.filehelpers.com/ Let’s say you have the following…