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4NT - Powerful Command Prompt + My All-Time Favorite Utility

Published 19 February 5 8:34 PM | coad

4NT by JPSoft is, in my humble opinion, one of the best apps ever created. It is a tool for the 'power user' who appreciats the power of the prompt (C:\>). :) It a console command prompt for Windows on steriods. I've used this app for over 14 years...

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Creating Quick Tests in C#

Published 18 June 4 2:51 AM | coad

Update on 5/2/07: This post has nothing to do with Unit Testing (it was written before I was aware of unit testing) but has to do with write little bits of code to try new stuff out. It is also only for VS03. For the current version (VS05), see this post...

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Visual Studio Team System is a Go!

Published 26 May 4 11:32 PM | coad

Just announced to the world here at TechEd is the new Visual Studio 2005 Team System for lifecycle management! Team Productivity In the past, Microsoft has focused on making the individual developer more productive with better focussed tools like improving...

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Two New CoadTools, AdvancedFileProperties & OrderedStringDictionary

Published 17 April 4 10:37 PM | coad

My protege, Radoslav (Radi) Ivanov (age 16), has published his first code utilitity! It is an “Advanced File Properties“ reader that retrieves the NTFS extended properties of a file. It provides a DataTable wrapped method for an included COM DLL. I created...

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RSS "FEED Validator" Bombs

Published 14 April 4 11:56 PM | coad

ARG! After spending so much time making sure my RSS feeds are valid XML, I have run into a limitation of the seemingly most preeminent RSS feed validator online. It bombs out right at about 200K. If the feed is longer, it is invalid. There is no warning...

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