SyncToy - Easily sync your directories

SyncToy is a free PowerToy designed by Microsoft that provides an easy to use GUI to automate synchronizing files and folders. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without added complexity. SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder.

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Microsoft Network Monitor - Free Network Monitoring tool

Microsoft Network Monitor is a free tool to analyze different network protocols. It enables one to capture, to view, and to analyze network data and decipher protocols. It can also be used to diagnose network related problems.

Some key features of Network Monitor are following:

• Script-based parser model, i.e custom parsers can also be added
• Simultaneous capture sessions for more than one network card
• Support for Windows Vista
• Support for 32-bit platforms and for 64-bit platforms
• Support for network conversations
• Wireless Monitor Mode with supported wireless NICs
• Real time capture and display of frames
• Reassembly of fragmented data
• Sniffing of promiscuous mode traffic
• No need to install Win-PCap driver for packet capture.

 

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Links:

http://blogs.technet.com/netmon/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933741/en-us

PDF SpeedUp - Speed up Adobe Acrobat

PDF SpeedUp is a Free PDF Tweak Utility for Adobe Acrobat v3.0 to v5.5, Adobe Reader 6 and 7 which allows you to significantly speed up the time it takes to load. When the Reader starts it loads many plug-ins which you may or may not need, this program simply disables the plug-ins and loads only the absolute necessary ones so the program starts quickly. It offers several options and you can also manually enable or disable the plug-ins as needed. Features: Free PDF Tweak Utility for Adobe Acrobat v3.0 to v5.5, Adobe Reader 6 and 7. Enable or disable the plug-ins as needed Turn off all Updates features Disable the splash screen during program startup Remove the My eBooks folder created in My Documents Turn off the advertisements for Adobe products in the upper-right corner of the toolbar Remove PrintMe and Adobe Reader icons Disable Browser Integration Disable confirmation dialog when closing Adobe Reader Better speed for LAN and Cable connection Clear Adobe Reader Recent Files History Restore to original settings at any time PDF SpeedUp can be downloaded from : http://www.acropdf.com/pdfsu.exe

Selingua - Build your vocabulary

Selingua is a Vocabulary builder software with extensive built-in dictionaries in English (both American and British), German,Spanish, French and Swedish. Each of the languages dictionary contains more than 2000 words.

There are six different exercises for practicing vocabulary and verb inflections, including a crossword exercise. Users can also add their own words to the dictionaries.

Selingua can be downloaded from: http://www.wartoft.nu/produkter/selingua/selingua.exe

Launchy - Free Application Launcher Utility

Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you quicly launch your applications documents and other files. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes! Latest version of launcy can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132975&package_id=146049

Exception Hunter - Find and fix exceptions in you DotNet applications

Exception Hunter is a Free analysis tool from Red-Gate that finds and reports the set of possible exceptions your functions might throw. With it, you can locate unhandled exceptions easily and quickly, down to the line of code that is throwing the exceptions. Features:

• Eliminate crashes before they happen
• Analyze your .NET assemblies
• Find the unhandled exceptions your functions can throw

Exception Hunter can be downloaded from : http://www.red-gate.com/products/Exception_Hunter/index.htm

SQL Log Rescue - Free tool from Red Gate for Log analysis and undo for SQL Server

SQL Log Rescue is a free tool from Red-Gate which allows you to explore your logs to view information on database transactions. Additionally, SQL Log Rescue should be kept on hand in case of a potential disaster – if you have accidentally deleted, inserted or modified your database, SQL Log Rescue will help you get the data back. Features:

• Analyze transaction logs
• Recover a damaged database with no downtime
• Disaster recovery with no data loss
• See who did what, and when

SQL Log Rescue is available for download at : http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Log_Rescue/index.htm

Windows Grep - Grep searching for Windows

Windows Grep - combines the power and flexibility of command line grep utility available on UNIX. In addition to searching, Windows Grep also performs global replacing in your files. Windows Grep is designed for searching plain-ASCII text files, such as program source, HTML, RTF and batch files, but it can also search binary files such as word processor documents, databases, spreadsheets and executables. Windows Grep runs on Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista. This utility is not a freeware but there are no differences between this and the registered version. It does not time-expire. Download Page: http://www.wingrep.com/download.htm

GhostDoc - easily add comments to your projects

GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that can assist you authoring XML comments. GhostDoc's internal engine can intellegently generate documentation by analyzing property or menthods names. It also allows you customize documentation generation rules. Download GhostDoc: GhostDoc Version 2.1.2 for Visual Studio 2008 GhostDoc Version 2.1.2 for Visual Studio 2005 GhostDoc Version 1.3.0 for Visual Studio .NET 2003

RegexDesigner.NET

RegexDesigner.NET is a free tool to design and test regular expressions. You can also generate C# or VB.Net code. Features: Interactive matching of .NET regular expressions. Syntax highlighted match results, including zero-length matches and hidden characters. Tooltips to display matched groups. Regular expression matching, replacing and splitting. Regular expression projects to save expressions, text to match and all regex options. Full code generation for C# and VB.NET for all regex operations. Compiled assembly generation. Full online help. Full source.

Paint.NET-Free image and photo editing software

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. Paint.NET can be downloaded from http://www.getpaint.net/download.html You can also download the sources from : http://www.getpaint.net/download.html Paint.NET has been developed using .Net framework so you may require .Net framework runtime to run this software. Framework 2.0 runtimes are available at : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit

There is a good new for developers waiting to start with Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit is available for download from Microsoft : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8BDAA836-0BBA-4393-94DB-6C3C4A0C98A1&displaylang=en

The training kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos on various new topics (LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management ).

Google Charts API- Free charting for your website

Google Charts API can be easily used to generate on the fly charts for your website. It is very simple to use and can be embed in HTML to display charts. More details can be found at the Google Chart API website: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

Google Hacks - Search music,books,applications

Google Hacks is a small piece of software which allows you to seach music,books,applications etc using google search. You need not to know the specific syntaxes of google search, the application itself generates search syntax for you. Google Hacks can be downloaded from :http://code.google.com/p/googlehacks/

CSharp code format

C# code format is an online tool which allows you to format your C#, VB, HTML, XML, T-SQL or MSH (code name Monad) code for publishing on a web site or in a blog. The output conforms to the HTML 4.01 specification and is color-coded to make it easier to read. The colors can be changed by modifying the CSS style sheet. See a sample. C# code format can be accessed from : http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/

Office Compatibility Pack

You can open Office 2007 file formats(.docx,.xlsx,.pptx) with legacy version of Ms-Office i.e Office XP or Office 2003 with Office Compatibility Pack. Office Compatibility Pack is freely available for download from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

WinMerge - Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool

WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. Features:

• Visual differencing and merging of text files
• Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap
• Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats
• Unicode support
• Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
• Location pane shows map of files compared
• Highlights differences inside lines in file compare
• Regular Expression based file filters in directory compare allow excluding and including items
• Moved lines detection in file compare
• Creates patch files
• Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions)
• Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration
• Archive file support using 7-Zip
• Plugin support
• Localizable interface via resource DLL
• Online manual and installed HTML Help manual

Winmerge is available for download from : [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/winmerge/WinMerge-2.6.12-Setup.exe] Source Code [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/winmerge/WinMerge-2.6.12-src.zip]

Gios PDF Splitter And Merger

Gios PDF is a small utility which can be used to split or merge PDF file(s). Gios PDF can be downloaded from the author's (Paolo Gios) wesite. http://www.paologios.com/default.aspx?page=pdf%20splitter%20and%20merger Source code for the same is also availabe apart from the binaries.

GMarks - Easily manage your google bookmarks

Gmarks is a nice utility to manage your google bookmarks. Though google has provided the facility to manage bookmarks through the add-on toolbars of IE and Firefox but this utility is far-far better. GMarks includes a sidebar, a toolbar and also a facility to search bookmarks. Few more remarkable features are : a) Drag and drop link to your sidebar in specific category. b) Easy option to rename links. c) Delete bookmarks. Gmarks can be downloaded from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2888

DILE-Dotnet IL Editor

DILE Is a small application that allows you to edit and debug assemblies at IL level.It comes into rescue when you need to find out reason in a .net application on a machine where visual studio is not installed. Though it is little difficult to start with but there are loads of features which can be used to advanced debugging purposes.

More details can be found at author's blog [Zsozso's Blog][http://pzsolt.blogspot.com/]. [http://www.freewebtown.com/pzsolt/dile/v0_2_6_2007_09_30/readme.txt] Basic Tutorial of Dile: [http://www.freewebtown.com/pzsolt/dile/tutorials/tutorial1/tutorial1.htm] Latest Version of Dile can be download from : [http://dile.sourceforge.net/]

AstroGrp - Free Unix Grep utility for windows.

AstroGrep is a powerful file search utility with a GUI. It gives the power of Grep command with an easy to use interface. Features: 1. Fast search and easy to use GUI. 2. Support for Regular Expressions for Advanced users. 3. File view with highlighting search text. 4. Plugin Support. AstroGrep can be downloaded from http://astrogrep.sourceforge.net/

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

CamStudio is a free software which can be used to Record activity From your screen. You can create AVI video files or can convert existing AVI files into Streaming flash videos(SWFs) Using built in flash producer. This software can be download from http://camstudio.org/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/

Foxit - Get rid of bulky Adobe reader

Finally I was able to find a nice alternate for bulky Adobe reader. Foxit Reader is a free software with loads of features. Few of them are : A) Small in size - .zip package is just 2.45 MB. B) Single executable- No need to install the program, simply copy the executable and start working. C) Loads a PDF file much faster then Adobe Reader does. D) No annoying Application splash screen. Through it has some issues with complex graphics and printing but, on the other hand benefits are more. Finally I have deleted the bulky software form my laptop and PC :-) This software can be downloaded from http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm