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Thanks Wonde, have posted there now.
But I still don't understand how this forum is wrong. AFAIK this forum is meant for asking tools related questions as well (that's why we have the '?' icon available for the threads) and when someone answers (suggests a tool), the thread becomes part of the forum's KB.
It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Pravin.
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It is for posting pointers to free tools that people found useful
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- TACO[^], tracking-blocker
- MVPS HOSTS file[^]
Easiest way to block a lot of annoying websites. It's a plain text file, goes in a special location to have Windows use it.
- Launchy[^]
Quick-launch app - my current desktop explorer.
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Good pointers. Thank you. My 5!
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Good
modified 20-Sep-20 21:01pm.
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Telerik seems to be offering another good hosted product. Check out its code convertor here:
http://converter.telerik.com/[^]
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Yes, that is very useful. Been there for quite a while.
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I have been there. Its a good tool.
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Just what the doctor ordered, thank you
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MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents and webpages. The equations can be rendered graphically to the screen, to picture files, or to MathML - today's leading standard language for describing mathematics.
MathCast is a free and open source application. Feel free to use it to help your studies, to add mathematics to your website, etc.
http://mathcast.sourceforge.net/home.html[^]
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It's a good tool to write mathematical expressions. Hence, voted 5
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LINQPad is a free tool and can be downloaded from here
http://www.linqpad.net/[^]
Eventhough the name is LINQPad, apart from testing LINQ expressions, it is an excellent tool to quickly test C#, VB statements and small programs.
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Looks great. Much faster for testing simple little statements in C# rather than running my app and putting a break point.
Thanks.
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The free tool Everything Search Engine
which can be found here http://www.voidtools.com/[^]
is quite fast and the files on the hard disk can be searched using regular expressions, however only on the File Name.
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Smartpaster[^] allows you to paste as stringbuilder for example.
Extremely useful when you're inlining SQL code.
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Yes, I've been using this for years.
Kevin
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Reading the page suggests that it is going to paste a text block using StringBuilder which I can only assume means something like the following?
StringBuilder sb =..
sb.append("stuff");
sb.append(" other stuff");
That idiom of course isn't efficient for static text compared to...
String s = "stuff"
+ " other stuff";
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Looking at the code, it can paste either way or as a comment.
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This question is not meant to be "picky-picky:" and I, personally, have no experience with the OP's mentioned use-case of "in-lining SQL," but, I think comparing a very brief example of using an example of StringBuilder versus string concatenation using "+" ... in "flat code:" i.e., outside a loop ... is not that particularly meaningful because: hypotheses:
1. it ignores the probable fact that at some point the StringBuilder will be converted to a string, which is going to cost you some cycles ?
2. at such a small scale of test, performance differences will be minuscule ... perhaps not even mensurable ?
The main place I use StringBuilder is in loops that are parsing files, and doing something that's going to create a huge bunch of characters.
It is rare, in my experience, to encounter other people's code where there are really long examples of string concatenation outside loops using "+," and code that does concatenation within the loop, using "+," in my experience, will be usually quite short.
I will try PasteBuilder, and see what it does for me
best, Bill
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Just spotted this: not had a chance to check it out but looks like it could be very useful: ninite[^].
[UPDATE] As has been pointed out by Bill (see next post) this does not appear to be free even though the home page implies or appears to show that it is free - my apologies - I posted it before I had a chance to properly read all of the information.
I'll leave it here with this caveat in case it does help anyone.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
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modified 24-Feb-12 17:02pm.
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