Your favorite Tools
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
Well, to be honest I'm not so much of a "utility guy". The only one I can think of is PGP... Huh! That was a short list :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
I think that my favourite tools are:
- SciTE
- a free and open source text editor which specific support for C++, VB, Java, HTML, XML, SQL, ... It's far far far better than notepad, notepad+, uedit & co.* Doxygen - a free and open source documentation system for C++, Java and IDL. With a little experience, you can very easily and fastly document your code and the generated documentation is very impressive - Araxis Merge - a visual file/folder comparison/merge tool. It's a little expensive but it's very useful
- Gimp a free and open source image editor. Not as powerful than Photoshop, but quite close.
- BCGControlBar a very nice extension library for MFC. Worths its price
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I think that my favourite tools are:
- SciTE
- a free and open source text editor which specific support for C++, VB, Java, HTML, XML, SQL, ... It's far far far better than notepad, notepad+, uedit & co.* Doxygen - a free and open source documentation system for C++, Java and IDL. With a little experience, you can very easily and fastly document your code and the generated documentation is very impressive - Araxis Merge - a visual file/folder comparison/merge tool. It's a little expensive but it's very useful
- Gimp a free and open source image editor. Not as powerful than Photoshop, but quite close.
- BCGControlBar a very nice extension library for MFC. Worths its price
Mine are: Paint Shop Pro - a phenomenal image editor, only $99 - www.jasc.com Wise Installer - anyone who has seen this after working with InstallSHeild never goes back. www.wisesolutions.com. I also use the WHAT help template for Microsoft Word for building help files - it's simple, easy, and unsupported - you have to pull it off one of the ancient MSDN CDs, since MS has deprecated it. Other than that.. not much.
- SciTE
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Mine are: Paint Shop Pro - a phenomenal image editor, only $99 - www.jasc.com Wise Installer - anyone who has seen this after working with InstallSHeild never goes back. www.wisesolutions.com. I also use the WHAT help template for Microsoft Word for building help files - it's simple, easy, and unsupported - you have to pull it off one of the ancient MSDN CDs, since MS has deprecated it. Other than that.. not much.
I guess people are different. I don't like Wise, but I do like InstallShield. I work a lot with InstallShield for Windows Installer 2.0, and (most of the time) like it. :) I hate their help files, but like the program... - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
I have a list of tools that I like to use.....
- Windows Commander - Norton Commander clone for windows. One of the best ones available. Includes mime encoding, built-in zip,tar,arg, and even ftp.
- WndTabs - Adds tabs and a few nice commands to Visual Studio.
- FinePrint - Installs as another printer and allows you to do 2, 4, 8, or 16 pages on one printed page. I love using the 4-up one for source code.
- NSIS - Nullsoft's FREE installer. It has allot of nice features, and its super-light weight. Always hated a 300K program becoming a 800K install using Installshield. This is only 50K overhead and compresses things nicely.
And I won't use this to promote the shareware tools that I have developed :cool: Steve Maier, MCSD
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
One thing I always do is customize my autoexp.dat file to show the insides of my custom objects when debugging. It amazes me how few people know about this DevStudio feature! Chris Hafey PS - VNC is a great application, although Microsoft Terminal Services is MUCH better!
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One thing I always do is customize my autoexp.dat file to show the insides of my custom objects when debugging. It amazes me how few people know about this DevStudio feature! Chris Hafey PS - VNC is a great application, although Microsoft Terminal Services is MUCH better!
One thing I always do is customize my autoexp.dat file to show the insides of my custom objects when debugging. And how do you do that? - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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One thing I always do is customize my autoexp.dat file to show the insides of my custom objects when debugging. And how do you do that? - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
My top favorite Tools are:
- Visual Assist - "enriches the IntelliSense of the VC++ editor"
- WndTabs - "a window and file management utility for the Visual C++ IDE"
- Internet Neighborhood - "integrates FTP right into your Windows Explorer"
- TextPad - "a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files"
Max
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One thing I always do is customize my autoexp.dat file to show the insides of my custom objects when debugging. It amazes me how few people know about this DevStudio feature! Chris Hafey PS - VNC is a great application, although Microsoft Terminal Services is MUCH better!
I agree that Terminal Server is much faster, but AFAIK it will only run on Win2K Advanced Server. Christian Skovdal Andersen
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
Here's my lineup: Wise Installer. Previously InstallShield but I could no longer afford the Tylenol. Dundas Toolbox. This has saved me ages and ages of work. Robohelp. Previously Doc-2-Help (god my skin crawls when I think about it) Black ICE. Keeps the pesky 15 year olds out of my system :) PC-Anywhere. If they'd add file transfer to Terminal Server I could toss this.
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
Inno Setup - better than most non-free installers. it's not in the same league as InstallShield, but that's a good thing - InstShld is crazy. Visual Assist - nice, handy, but a little unstable still - it knocks VC over every few days. Search and Replace - nice multi-file S&R app. Does RegExps, multi-line S&Rs, etc.. SACapture - a simple window capture utility. Yes, i wrote it, but I still use it to do all of the screen caps for my help files. DC Forum - the message board scripts I use on my site. It's not as fancy as the CodeProject stuff, but it's Perl, so it can run most anywhere. SAHotShot - a simple hotkey program. I have it set up to launch Eudora, VB, VC, etc.. Yes, I wrote this one too, but it's free so I don't feel bad telling you about it. :) PhotoShop is handy, too. -c ------------------------------ Smaller Animals Software, Inc. http://www.smalleranimals.com
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
So how do I embed URL'S ??? My list would be: PowerArchiver Visual Assist WndTabs WinAmp ( can't code without music ) mIrc (same reason) Setup Factory ( makes setups quick and easy, great when I don't have a lot of time to spend writing scripts ) www.CodeProject.com ( for obvious reasons ) Computer Graphics: Principles & Practice/Windows Graphics PRogramming by Feng Yuan (if books count, these are the ones I live by) I used to include PaintShop Pro, but as I am writing a graphics program, I eventually found I run it and Photoshop only to compare how they do things when writing new features. I'm not saying GrausPaint is close to as broad in it's application to either of these, but who ever uses a hot wax filter anyhow. ) ( Having said that, if anyone knows how to do a hot wax filter, please response... :) ) I hope one day to include Bounds Checker, as I have run a demo and thought it looked sweet but niether my boss or my wife would let me get it. Christian The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
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So how do I embed URL'S ??? My list would be: PowerArchiver Visual Assist WndTabs WinAmp ( can't code without music ) mIrc (same reason) Setup Factory ( makes setups quick and easy, great when I don't have a lot of time to spend writing scripts ) www.CodeProject.com ( for obvious reasons ) Computer Graphics: Principles & Practice/Windows Graphics PRogramming by Feng Yuan (if books count, these are the ones I live by) I used to include PaintShop Pro, but as I am writing a graphics program, I eventually found I run it and Photoshop only to compare how they do things when writing new features. I'm not saying GrausPaint is close to as broad in it's application to either of these, but who ever uses a hot wax filter anyhow. ) ( Having said that, if anyone knows how to do a hot wax filter, please response... :) ) I hope one day to include Bounds Checker, as I have run a demo and thought it looked sweet but niether my boss or my wife would let me get it. Christian The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
To embed a url typing : an example of a link to <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/">Code Project</a> will produce : an example of a link to Code Project
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
Ed for Windows - The best editor I have ever used. I used the DOS version in my first programming job and I was hooked. Guy I worked with was a BRIEF expert, and Ed's BRIEF emulation is superb while Visual Studio's is very crappy. The newest version, even while it is in beta, rocks!!! And I am just not kissing Neville Frank's butt. :eek: Search & Replace - Gotta have a good search tool, and in my opinion this is one of the best. Wayne
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I agree that Terminal Server is much faster, but AFAIK it will only run on Win2K Advanced Server. Christian Skovdal Andersen
Actually, terminal services are also in regular server. It's darn useful. I even use it to log on to my dev machine from another machine when I've so totally hosed explorer that I can't even get up taskman. Just termsrv in, and kill stuff from there :) Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."
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What about a discussion about the tools that we use on our systems for making work a little funnier/easier/faster. I'll start - here is a coupple of tools that I would recommend:
- PowerArchiver - freeware Winzip clone with a nice UI
- Visual Assist - Intellisense Add-In to Visual Studio. Highly recommended. Buyware - and addictive like heroine, but a lot cheaper (US$ 80,-).
- Stingray Objective Toolkit for ATL - Makes COM collections a breeze. Very expensive though, since it is part of the Objective Toolkit Suite :-(
- Tiny personal firewall. - small, simple and lightweight. Free for home use
- VNC Remote administration - very nice an light remote administration tool. Open source
- Inno Setup - compact and easy to use installer. Sports the modern userinterface, that the customers has been accustomed to. Open source
This was some of my favorites - how about you? Christian Skovdal Andersen
These are the things I tend to have running or use: (oh yah, I'm waaaay to lazy and hateful of html to ever make links for the stuff below, so type it yourself in your browser :)) - Visual Assist - As mentioned, after you get used to it, there's no living without it. - Workspace Whiz - Another great tool. I use the ctags stuff from it mostly. - CvsIn - Plug-in for VS for CVS stuffs. I mainly use it for doing cvs edit's on stuff. (I still do commit and queries and stuff from the command line) For other things I use: - BCGControlBar library - I've been using this for years, and it keeps getting better. - Lua (www.lua.org) - Awesome embedded scripting language. Can't say enough good things about it. Check out Joshua Jenson's (Workspace Whiz author) class wrapper for it. - MiwaIRC - my own irc client for the truly brave ^_^ - MSDN Universal Subscription - More CD's than you can count! - Dual monitor setup - Go ahead, cram another vid card into your comp, you'll be happy you did. Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."
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To embed a url typing : an example of a link to <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/">Code Project</a> will produce : an example of a link to Code Project
Does this mean I can embed ANY HTML I want into my posts ? Christian The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.