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Caliburn

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:47:26 GMT

Framework designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications.
Caliburn's goals include making TDD easier and providing an implementation of the MVP pattern.

Features include:
- Model/View/Presenter and Presentation Model (Model/View/ViewModel) support
- EventBroker and EventAggregator
- UI Composition and Scope
- Transitions
- Modular deployment
- Platform abstractions
- State persistence
- Pluggable services
- Utilities

Categories:

SVG - XAML - WPF - Silverlight

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Manco .NET Licensing System

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:05:23 GMT

Licensing and copy protection tools for Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.NET applications, controls and components.

Features include:
- License file and unlock key encryption
- License file content allows creation of different licensing schemas: 34 predefined rules and unlimited number of custom values
- Custom values allows you to store additional information in the license file, so you can lock/unlock some features of your product, or make some additional tests to validate the license
- Allows creation of time/usage limited evaluation versions
- Uses RSA encryption to sign license files
- Activate your products using a license file or an encrypted unlock key
- Additional user data can be included in the unlock key for use in performing additional validations
- Allows you to dynamically decrypt, compile, load and use encrypted code at runtime
- Source code integration allows including of the protection library right in the code of your application
- Protection library available for .NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5

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Licensing

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TeamCity

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:35:01 GMT

IDE-independent integrated team environment.
TeamCity automates and coordinates key collaborative processes to eliminate manual systems and delays, providing integration with multiple build and test tools, real-time unit test frequency, server-side inspections and code coverage analysis.

Features include:
- continuous integration and testing
- server-side code analysis
- build management
- automated team communication
- code coverage analysis and reporting
- web-based interface and project dashboard
- extensibility
- IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse and Visual Studio integration
- pre-tested (delayed) commit
- remote run for personal builds

Supported environments:
- Ant, Maven, NAnt, MSBuild
- Having an IntelliJ IDEA project or a Visual Studio solution, you can build your application with TeamCity, even without providing a build script
- Supports JUnit and NUnit
- Integrates with Perforce, CVS, Subversion, Visual SourceSafe, StarTeam

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MonoDevelop

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:13:51 GMT

IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages.

Features include:
- Code completion: attempts to complete type, method and field names as you're typing.
- Class management: a class viewer allows you to list the classes in your project, their methods, and properties. Your namespaces are also kept track of to keep the classes separated.
- Integrated debugger.
- Built-in help: the .NET documentation and the Gtk# documentation are built into MonoDevelop.
- Project support: comes with built in projects that help get you started with your console, Gnome# or Gtk# application.
- MSBuild file format support.
- Add-ins: an add-in engine, which together with a modular API and a complete set of extension points, provides a platform upon which to build your own development tools. MonoDevelop also provides an Add-in Manager you can use to install add-ins from online repositories.

Categories:

IDEs - IDE add-ins

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Postbuild

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:19:17 GMT

Code security, optimization, and packaging products.
Xenocode Postbuild is a code protection and deployment solution.

Features include:
- Code protection: Symbol obfuscation; Control flow obfuscation; String encryption; Ability to suppress disassemblers; Assembly watermarking; Debug data stripping.
- Application deployment: Assembly linking; .NET Framework embedding; Assembly compression.
- Assembly optimization: Code profiling; Dead code and metadata elimination; Dead and duplicate literal elimination; Metadata-only assemblies.
- Supports multi-assembly applications
- Attribute-directed configuration
- Debugging support
- Build process automation; Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 integration; Supports command-line scripting
- Incorporates application virtualization technology
- Embed files and registry settings directly into your executable
- Save-to-MSI, diagnostic, and splash output modes
- Supports .NET 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, Managed C++, the .NET Compact Framework.

Previous name: XenoCode.

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Code protection - Obfuscation

GhostDoc

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:01:57 GMT

Add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C# and VB, either by using existing documentation (e.g. of base classes or implemented interfaces), or by deducing from name and type of e.g. methods, properties, events, or parameters.

Features include:
- Generates XML comments based on code element type, parameters, name, and other contextual information
- For a derived class uses the base class documentation
- Assignable shortcut
- Configurable rules, acronyms and macros
- Import/Export of the configuration and the rules
- Option to re-build documentation
- Available for Visual Studio 2010, 2008 and 2005.

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Xml2PDF Server

Sat, 16 May 2009 17:10:03 GMT

Formatting engine for converting various page layout formats into print-ready documents.

Features include:
- Source formats: XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, HTML, Microsoft Word (DocX and older WordML and Doc)
- Output formats: PDF (with PDF/A and PDF/X support), XPS , SVG and raster graphics (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF)
- Merging of several documents
- Compression, encryption and digital signatures in generated PDF and XPS
- Resulting document interactivity
- Color management, font embedding and subsetting
- Arabian, Chinese and Japanese fonts support

Categories:

Reporting

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{smartassembly}

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:06:58 GMT

Improvement, protection and exception reporting tool for .NET assemblies.

Features include:
- Dependencies merging
- Pruning: automatically detects and removes the code that will never be executed at runtime
- Classes and methods obfuscation
- Control flow obfuscation
- References dynamic proxy: hide most of the calls to external methods, properties or fields
- Strings encoding
- Anti-disassembler and anti-decompiler
- Unhandled exception reporting (with 24x7x365 Web service)
- Resources compression and encryption: reduce assembly sizes; allows the protection of XAML files
- Dependencies compression and embedding
- Memory management
- Debugging capabilities
- No need to make any change in your code, or to learn a 3rd party object model
- Command line mode

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VBeeJ for Java

Sat, 16 May 2009 12:19:15 GMT

Source language translator from VB.NET to Java.

Features include:
- Converts VB.NET 2002, 2003, 2005
- Full event and event handling translation into pure Java
- Converts entire VB.NET solution file set, or individual vb files
- Free trial download with unlimited use for files of 250 lines or less
- Includes an open source plugin library that implements .NET services on Java 6.0
- All unknowns resolved with patent pending type inference technology
- Runs on Windows XP and Vista

Previous name: VBeeJava

Categories:

Code conversion - Language migration

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NCover

Mon, 11 May 2009 10:28:29 GMT

Code coverage analysis tool that uses the profiling API to give line-by-line code coverage statistics.

Features include:
- Supports any .NET language, because the analysis is done at the .NET runtime layer. Tested with C#, VB.NET, Managed C++, J#, MSIL, and Boo.
- 64-bit support
- NCoverExplorer: tool for analysis of NCover profiling data
- No special builds required
- Sequence point coverage reporting; Branch coverage reporting
- XML coverage data output
- NAnt/MSBuild/CC.Net integration
- Select assemblies to profile; Attribute-based exclusion; Auto exclusion of compiler-generated code
- Exclusion through regular expressions
- IIS (ASP.NET) and Windows service profiling

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ReSharper

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:29:36 GMT

Add-in for Visual Studio that provides C# and VB.NET coding assistance, on-the-fly error highlighting and quick error correction, as well as support for code refactoring or unit testing features.

Features include:
- Syntax and error highlighting
- Error quick-fixes
- Refactoring
- Navigation
- Code assistance, code completion, code formatting
- Code generation
- Search
- Live templates
- ASP.NET editing
- NAnt and MSBuild scripts editing
- Supports Visual Studio 2008/2005/2003, C# (up to version 3), VB.NET (up to version 9)

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Sculpture

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:28:03 GMT

Model-Driven Development code generation framework.
With Sculpture you can model your application components, and then transform this model to deployable components for your favorite technology.

Features include:
- comes with ready-made molds: DAAB, NHibernate, LINQ, CSLA, WCF, ASMX, Windows forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC
- provides a starter kit wizard that enables you to choose among available technologies to start your project with all layers
- contains a Guidance Package for building your own Mold or customizes existing ones
- can generate any kind of text output using templates (source code, database scripts, web pages, XML, configuration files, etc.)

Sculpture is divided into:
- Sculpture Core Engine: a platform that hosts the molds, takes care of making all the molds work together. It includes the Model Designer, Mold discovery and loader, generic validation engine, generic code generation engine, command holder, and editor controls holder.
- Mold: The primary plug-in of the Sculpture framework, with Molds you can extend all the power of Sculpture to manage the model and the produced code as your needs, Molds provide the ability to process model elements.

Categories:

Modeling - Architecture - MDA - UML

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NConstruct

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:47:47 GMT

Rapid application generator.

Features include:
- Generates C# code
- Creates application servers that can work as standalone applications or as a Windows Service
- Creates Windows and ASP.NET client applications with a .NET Remoting connection to the application server.
- Entity source code and NHibernate O/R mapping creation
- Generic GUI creation, with customizable forms (grids and editing forms) and save/restore layout feature
- Application module selection
- Multilanguage GUI support
- Integrated security module
- Designed to allow switching of GUI components
- Supports Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, Access

Categories:

RAD - Dev automation

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Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:32:44 GMT

Add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for developing Silverlight 2 applications.
It provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.

Features include:
- VB and C# project templates
- IntelliSense and code generators for XAML
- XAML design preview
- Debugging of Silverlight applications
- Remote debugging of Silverlight applications for Mac
- Web reference support
- WCF Templates
- Team Build and command line build support
- Support for cached transparent assemblies
- Support for ASP.NET server integration
- Support for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1

Categories:

SVG - XAML - WPF - Silverlight

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Silverlight SDK

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:30:54 GMT

Software Development Kit (SDK) for creating applications that use Silverlight 3.
This SDK provides documentation, libraries and tools for developing Silverlight applications.

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