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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

Wonderwebware-Screen Ruler

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

Measure anything on your screen with this freeScreen Ruler tool…

VisualSVN Server-subversion server

http://www.visualsvn.com/server/

VisualSVN Server is a package that contains everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform. It includes Subversion, Apache and a management console.

You can use any Subversion client to connect to VisualSVN Server or a web browser to quickly browse though repositories. Also you may find VisualSVN useful to integrate Subversion into Visual Studio.

VisualSVN Server is less than 6MB in size and can be downloaded and installed in a couple of minutes with just few clicks.

Features
User friendly management console

    * Create, import and remove repositories
    * Dashboard showing overview status of Subversion server
    * Manage Subversion security policy
    * Start, stop and restart service
    * Repository browser
    * Manage users and groups
    * Edit Subversion hooks

And last, but not least – VisualSVN Server is completely free! 

Vlinq-Visual Linq-query builder for Linq to Sql

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vlinq

Visual LINQ Query Builder is an add-in to Visual Studio 2008 Designer that helps you visually build LINQ to SQL queries. Functionally it provides the same experience as, for instance the Microsoft Access Query Builder, but in the LINQ domain. The entire UI of this add-in uses Windows Presentation Foundation. The goal of this tool is to help users become more familiar with the LINQ syntax. The tool may also demonstrate to users how to create their own Visual Studio 2008 add-in using Windows Presentation Foundation.

This academic project was developed by two students during an internship at Microsoft France, under the supervision of one of our Developer Evangelists. The project was in full collaboration with the STB International CPE team in Redmond.

CopySourceAsHtml-add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio

Studio 2005 

http://www.jtleigh.com/people/colin/software/CopySourceAsHtml/

Studio 2008 

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg

CopySourceAsHtml is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 that allows you to copy source code, syntax highlighting, and line numbers as HTML. CSAH uses Visual Studio's syntax highlighting and font and color settings automatically. If Visual Studio can highlight it, CSAH can copy it, and your source should look the same in your browser as it does in your editor. 

DocShield-monitors files and folders for changes backup

http://www.docshield.com/index.html  

DocShield is a program that runs in the background and monitors files and folders that you specify for changes. It will create compressed snapshots of your files whenever it detects any changes, enabling you to retrieve your files in case of data loss, and providing a retrievable version history of your files and/or data.

You may or may not be regularly backing up your most important files and/or archiving the most important version changes, and saving your backups into compressed archives to keep your files from growing too large. But chances are that you do this in fits and starts and/or are not as consistent as you like to be, or even have simply given up on this. Wouldn’t it be just great if there were a program you could run in the background that would automate do this for you and manage the process automatically? DocShield is exactly this program.

DocShield is now FREE for personal, non-commercial use 

Notepad++ programmers source code editor

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm  

Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

This project is mature. However, as you can see it's a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums. As well, if you have any feature requests, you can always make the demand, but there's no guarantee that I'll implement it.

You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ (if it is not present in the Download Section) and/or to translate the Notepad++ official site into your native language

PSPad editor – programmers code editor

http://www.pspad.com

PSPad editor is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. It comes with a hex editor, CP conversion, text differences, templates, macros, spellcheck option, auto-completion, Code Explorer and much more. The program is pre-configured for the most popular programming languages (VB, C++, SQL, PHP, ASP, Python etc.) and you can further customize the syntax settings. PSPad includes several additional tools that are especially useful for HTML editing (compress, format code) and also integrates TopStyle Lite and TidyHTML. The program can be used as IDE for any compiler. Additional features include support for project, file browsing, custom shortcuts, built-in FTP client to edit files on the server and much more. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP File size: 2233 kb Author: Jan Fiala Version: 4.2.8 Last update: Dec 29, 2003 version history

LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language

http://www.linqpad.net/  

LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ.  Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio!

LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5:

    * LINQ to SQL
    * LINQ to Objects
    * LINQ to XML

LINQPad is also a terrific tool for learning LINQ: it comes preloaded with 200 examples from the recently released C# 3.0 in a Nutshell.  There's no better way to experience the coolness of LINQ and functional programming.

LINQPad is free and needs no installation: just download and run.  The executable is under 2MB and is self-updating.