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plantumleditor – fast, simple UML diagram editor 

http://code.google.com/p/plantumleditor/

A convenient IDE to create UML diagrams using plantuml. Open multiple diagrams, quickly edit and see output without ever leaving the editor. No need to design using mouse. Just type and diagrams get generated on-the-fly.

Open DBDiff -MS-SQL schema compare and upgrade generator

http://www.codeplex.com/OpenDBiff

Open DBDiff is an open source database schema comparison tool for SQL Server 2005/2008.
It reports differences between two database schemas and provides a synchronization script to upgrade a database from one to the other.

Open DBDiff can synchronize

    * Tables (including Table Options like vardecimal, text in row, etc.)
    * Columns (including Computed Columns, XML options, Identities, etc.)
    * Constraints
    * Indexes (and XML Indexes)
    * XML Schemas
    * Table Types
    * User Data Types (UDT)
    * CLR Objects (Assemblies, CLR-UDT, CLR-Store Procedure, CLR-Triggers)
    * Triggers (including DDL Triggers)
    * Synonyms
    * Schemas
    * File groups
    * Views
    * Functions
    * Store Procedures
    * Partition Functions/Schemes
    * Users
    * Roles

I didn't found any tool like this 100% open source for SQL Server. It does not depend on any privative tool or component. I do its work without resorting to SMO.
We tested this tool with more than 100 distinct testing use cases

DbDiff – DbScripting (without dmo,smo) 

http://www.codeplex.com/DbDiff

Compare MSSql database structures. (Sql 7,Sql 2000,Sql 2005)
Features:

– compare database structure (sql2000 <-> sql2000 or sql2000 <-> sql2005 or sql2005 <-> sql2005)
– scripting without dmo or smo
– commandline scripting, commandline compare
– standalone dll-s for referencing from another .net project
– many compare options (and we can easily extend for new properties with option designer)
– easily extend for other sql databases
– and many more

next release will include a new project: scripting with sql for example: sql scripting inside sql server without smo (only in sql2005)

SSMS Tools Pack is an Add-In for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (Express)

http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/

It contains a few upgrades to the IDE that I thought were missing from it.

The current feature list is:
    * SQL Snippets
    * Window Connection Coloring
    * Query Execution History and Current Window History
    * Format SQL
    * Search Table, View or Database Data
    * Run one script on multiple databases
    * Copy execution plan bitmaps to clipboard or file
    * Search Results in Grid Mode or Execution Plans
    * Generate Insert statements from resultsets, tables or database
    * Regions and Debug sections
    * Running custom scripts from Object Explorer
    * CRUD stored procedure generation
    * New query template
    * General options

It is simply the best free SQL Server Management Studio Add-In on the web today!
And it's better than some non-free ones too. :)

Synerg-Share keyboard mouse and multiple computers

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.

Synergy is open source and released under the GNU Public License (GPL).

System Requirements

    * Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (the Windows 95 family)
    * Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (the Windows NT family)
    * Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
    * Unix

SysAid Free Help Desk Software

http://www.ilient.com/freeware.htm

A new version of SysAid Free Help Desk Software is now available. This version is completely free, with no trial period, and no ads.
SysAid Help Desk Software offers efficient, web based help desk.

With SysAid free help desk software, you'll be able to:

    Let end users submit service requests via simple, online forms.
    Sort, search through, and deal with service requests using an efficient methodology.
    Print reports on the state of your help desk.
    Communicate with your end-users in real-time via SysAid's completely integrated Live Chat module.
    Receive automatic notifications and keep your end-users up-to-date via email and SMS text messages.
    Utilize various features such as escalation, automatic notifications, a knowledgebase, and more.
    Manage and monitor your organization's inventory.
    Choose between interfaces in English, French, German,

SpecFlow-Convert plain-text into .net unit tests

http://specflow.org/specflow/workflow.aspx

There are two driving intentions behind SpecFlow:
    * visual studio .net addin – create unit test
    * We believe in the simplicity of plain-text feature specifications
    * We want to provide a seamless developer experience by leveraging existing infrastructure and frictionless integration into the .Net platform

From these intentions we derived the following design decisions:

    * We strive to be fully compatible with the Gherkin language
    * We allow bindings (step definitions) in any .NET language
    * We use existing unit-testing frameworks as the runtime for scenario execution

Realization:

SpecFlow converts the feature files into unit test fixture classes. The test inside the test fixture classes are corresponding to the scenarios you have in the feature file, and contain call-outs to the step definitions
SpecFlow currently consists of three parts:

    * feature file converter into test fixtures (integrated into Visual Studio through a single-file generator)
    * runtime framework (handles, step bindings, events and tracing)
    * NUnit integration

Plans for the near future:

    * Provide a converter that can be run outside of Visual Studio
    * Integration with MSTest
    * Extensibility for grammars in other human languages (e.g. German)

Wonderwebware-Screen Ruler

http://wonderwebware.com/screen-ruler/

Measure anything on your screen with this freeScreen Ruler tool…

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2005 for MySQL

http://mcpmag.com/articles/2010/01/12/ms-woos-mysql-users-with-migration-tool.aspx

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) 2005 is a toolkit that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating from MySQL to SQL Server. SSMA 2005 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 provides an assessment of migration efforts as well as automates schema and data migration.
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System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Vista; Windows XP
SSMA 2005 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 is designed to work with MySQL 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1 and all editions of SQL Server 2005.

Requirements for the SSMA for MySQL client:
• Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 or a later version
• The Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or a later version. You can obtain it from the .NET Framework Developer Center.
• MySQL Connector/ODBC v5.1.
• Access to and sufficient permissions on the computer that hosts the target instance of SQL Server 2005.
• 1 GB RAM. 

FramworkGen-.Net ORM that generates the data access layer

http://www.elencysolutions.co.uk/FrameworkGen/Default.aspx

FramworkGen is a .Net ORM that generates the data access persistance code for windows and web applications. FrameworkGen generates C# 2.0 code in an 3 Tier architecture.

By simply selecting a SQL Server database, FrameworkGen will build Stored Procedures in SQL Server and a Bussiness and Data Layer in C#. This greatly reduces the time developers spend on writing data access code while imporoving the quality of the overall architecture.

Developers will have more time to focus on business/functional development taks.

The data access code FrameworkGen Generates is database neutral although FrameworkGen itself currently works with SQL Server only. The data retrieval code uses SqlDataReaders for read only forward only data retrieval which provides the most optimal performance. 

NConstruct-generate nhibernate application data layer

http://www.nconstruct.com/NConstruct-Lite.aspx

NConstruct Lite is a powerful wizard-like tool for creating application's data layer source code for NHibernate object/relational persistence and query framework. NConstruct Lite examines database's metadata and creates NHibernate HBM files, entities' source code, Microsoft Visual Studio project file, and some optional helper files.
NConstruct Lite is a derivative of more powerful NConstruct tool. Full versions of NConstruct software produce not only object-relational mapping source code but also a fully operational client-server enterprise application for managing and presenting the data from a database in a matter of minutes.

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool

http://www.codeplex.com/PAL

Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (provided). The tool generates an HTML based report which graphically charts important performance counters and throws alerts when thresholds are exceeded. The thresholds are originally based on thresholds defined by the Microsoft product teams and members of Microsoft support, but continue to be expanded by this ongoing project. This tool is not a replacement of traditional performance analysis, but it automates the analysis of performance counter logs enough to save you time. This is a VBScript and requires Microsoft LogParser (free download). 

on-screen ruler- semitransparent onscreen ruler

https://sites.google.com/site/rulerhelp/welcome

on-screen ruler- semitransparent onscreen ruler. This program is a semitransparent on-screen ruler with keyboard shortcuts to help you lay out GUIs, Web pages or measure anything in 5 units. The ruler saves its settings upon exit and is safe for work, since it does not modify the registry.

EQATEC Profiler.NET

http://www.eqatec.com/tools/profiler

app run fasterIt's powerful, easy, and freeDownload33,000+ downloads since May, 2008Good news, everyone: Version 3.0 is out now! (Nov 11th)
 
Spot slow code

Are you a .NET developer? Would you like your application to run faster? Then use our free profiler to spot you app's slow code.
Point and go

No source code changes are needed. Just point the profiler to your app, run the modified code, and get a visual report.
Speedup any .NET app

As the only code profiler in the world, our profiler can even handle Compact Framework applications.

SlimTune is a free profiler for .NET

http://code.google.com/p/slimtune/

SlimTune is a free profiler and performance analysis/tuning tool for .NET based applications, including C#, VB.NET, IronPython, and more. It provides many powerful features, such as remote profiling, real time results, multiple plugin-based visualizations, and much more. The source code is available under the terms of the MIT License.

SlimTune is currently in the prototyping phase of development, but a preview release is available for testing and feedback is welcome. Both x86 and x64 targets are supported, but only sampling based profiling is available in the release.

DebugDiag – Debug Diagnostic Tool

http://www.microsoft.com

Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process. The tool includes additional debugging scripts focused on Internet Information Services (IIS) applications, web data access components, COM+ and related Microsoft technologies.

Application Software Ideas Modeler

http://www.softwareideas.net/

Application Software Ideas Modeler is a lightweight and powerful tool for the creation of UML (UML is the industry standard general purpose modeling language for software engineering) diagrams and modeling software.

ADO.NET 2.0 Provider for SQLite

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlite-dotnet2/files/

ADO.NET 2.0/3.5 Provider for SQLite. Supports Full and Compact Framework, Entity Framework, complete with full Visual Studio 2005/2008 design-time support.

CopyPasteKiller-find duplicate code in codebase

http://www.nitriq.com/CopyPasteKiller/

CopyPasteKiller is a free tool for .Net developers that will analyze a directory of code and find large chunks of similar code in multiple locations. This similar code can then be refactored either by creating a base class or by reducing the protection level on the method so it can be called by multiple classes. Technically, CopyPasteKiller should be called CopyPasteFinder because its up to you to remove the duplicate code, but CopyPasteFinder isn't nearly as fun a name as CopyPasteKiller.

CopyPasteKiller finds similar code, not exact matches. It ignores "fluff" like whitespace, string content, curly braces, comments and using/import statements. In VB.NET it will also ignore lines that contain only "Next", "End While", "End Try", "End If", "End

SilverX-convert flash to silverlight

http://www.silverx.net/

SilverX is aimed to help Silverlight designers and developers to migrate existing Flash content to Silverlight platform. SilverX can be used in a variety of scenarios:
    * Export CorelDraw vector graphics to SWF file and then convert it to Silverlight XAML
    * Convert vector graphical assets embedded in SWF file to content ready to use in Silverlight application
    * Extract graphical assets embedded in SWF file
    * Transform Flash cartoons/animations to Silverlight movies
    * Transform Flash banners to ready to run Silverlight banners

SilverX is able to load Flash application (SWF file) and transform it into a Silverlight solution or a ready-to-run Silverlight application.

All you need to do is select SWF file you want to convert to Silverlight, click "Convert" button, and in just a few seconds its Silverlight output will be created.

Once converted, your Silverlight application can be launched in your web-browser or loaded and additionally edited with Expression Blend or Visual Studio.

* Expression Blend 3 or Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is required to work with Silverlight 3 solutions. You can see the list of all Microsoft tools and products you required to start working with Silverlight 3 at http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ page.

abylon SELFCERT-create self-signed test certificates X.509 v3

http://www.abylonsoft.com/selfcert/index.htm

This Tool create self-signed test certificates (X.509 v3) for private use. It is very easy to create and you can encrypt your data with this certificate.
Features:
    * Generation of self-signed X.509 v3 test certificates
    * Automatic installation after the certificate generation
    * Fields: Owner, Emailadress, Country, City, Organisation and Department
    * Key size 512 until 4024 Bits
    * Runtime up to 9999 days (~ 27 years)

BackLINQ-LINQ to Objects framework 2

http://code.google.com/p/backlinq/

BackLINQ allows applications written in C# 3.0, but which need to target .NET Framework 2.0 and/or 3.x, to reap the benefits and expressivity of LINQ to Objects and lambda expressions.
The Short of BackLINQ

Once you've gotten used to expressing queries on objects using LINQ, it's hard to go back and write them in an imperative and verbose style. Some folks may still need to target .NET Framework 2.0 and with the multi-targeting capability of Visual Studio 2008, it is possible to continue to use C# 3.0 without requiring users to install .NET Framework 3.5 (which is required to use LINQ to Objects). This is where BackLINQ comes in.

Sitemap Generator to generate html or txt sitemap

http://www.sitemap-generator.net/

Sitemap Generator to generate html or txt sitemap. HTML Sitemap can be a valuable page to your website for search engines, vistors, and web masters. Download Sitemap Generator Software Utility and try the software utility for your own website or have a look at the html sitemap generated by the software utility, using the link at the bottom of this page.

DotNetPanel Express Edition-free control panel for windows hosting

http://www.dotnetpanel.com/dotnetpanel/editions/express-edition/

If you have been looking for a user-friendly, free control panel for Windows hosting, you have found it. The DNP Express Edition is ideal for VPS and dedicated server owners, home hosting, education and evaluation use. You can manage an unlimited number of domains or websites, install it on three servers with up to five users, and it runs on Windows Server 2008 Web edition. And, best of all, it's FREE!
Features

    * Automate your site/FTP/database creation.
    * Get your server managed in minutes.
    * Maximum 5 users
    * Unlimited domains
    * Reseller accounts disabled
    * Maximum of 1 remote server
    * Applications installer
    * Backup/Restore module
    * E-commerce module
    * Control panel source Supports Hyper-V

Benefits

    * Free download and install. You will be up and running in minutes.
    * No domains or web sites limits!
    * Up to 5 users and 1 remote server allowed
    * Create your own, different profiles (ASP.NET with MSSSQL, PHP with MySQL etc). 

Inanis Glass WordPress Theme

http://www.inanis.net/blog/index.php/downloads/inanis-glass-wordpress-theme/

This is the New WordPress theme used for this website.