VS Project Zipper Source

Brian Brewder — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:38:46 GMT

VS Project Zipper (Beta)

Brian Brewder — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:08:33 GMT

This tool will allow you to right-click on a Visual Studio project or solution in Windows Explorer and zip it up and, if desired, email it to somebody.

For more information, check out the original blog post I did for this tool: Introducing Visual Studio Project Zipper Shell Extension

Developer Express Release Notes Viewer

Brian Brewder — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:31:07 GMT

NOTE: This tool is for developers who use one or more of the Developer Express products.

UPDATE: Developer Express has changed the way they publish updates so this tool is no longer effective for newer versions.

This tool parses the release notes from Developer Express and displays them in a grid. The grid enables you to filter out the issues that you don't care about (for example, if you are only interested in what changed in the XtraGrid after 7.1).

The release notes must be downloaded from the DevEx website, named <version>.htm (eg, 7.3.5.htm), and placed in a directory that only contains DevEx release notes. The zip file contains all of the release notes from 6.1.0 to 7.3.5 (though 6.1.0 uses a different format than the rest so doesn't get parsed and displayed in the grid).

This tool was developed in just a couple of hours and shows it. This is why I have chosen to release only the source code, so that only developers will use this tool and can fix problems if they run into them.

The tool uses DevEx version 7.3.4 of the XtraGrid, though I'm not doing anything really special with the grid, so you should be able to swap out the references for just about any version.

If you run into any problems, you are pretty much on your own to fix them. If you fix an issue and send me the source code (either submit a comment or use the Contact form), I will try to include it in some future version.

Tools

VS Project Zipper Source

VS Project Zipper (Beta)

Developer Express Release Notes Viewer