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Refer to the Editor's Update below. .NET Tools Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now James Avery You cannot expect to build a first-class application unless you use the best available tools. Snippet Compiler The Snippet Compiler is a small Windows®-based application that allows you to write, compile, and run code. As an example, let's say that I wanted to show you how to launch another application from the Microsoft® .NET Framework. System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); proc.StartInfo.FileName= "notepad.exe"; proc.Start(); proc.WaitForExit(); Of course this snippet would not compile by itself, but that is where Snippet Compiler comes into play.
Figure 1 Snippet Compiler To test this snippet, just press the play button (green triangle), and it will run in debug mode. Snippet Compiler was written by Jeff Key and can be downloaded from Regulator CodeSmith Building a Custom Template NUnit. The Most Intelligent Extension for Visual Studio - C# 4.0, VB10, LINQ, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, XML, XAML, build scripts. Best-of-breed tools for code quality analysis, code cleanup, navigation, code generation, and unit testing, plus mul. ReSharper is a renowned productivity tool that makes Microsoft Visual Studio a much better IDE.
Thousands of .NET developers worldwide wonder how they’ve ever lived without ReSharper’s code inspections, automated code refactorings, blazing fast navigation, and coding assistance. How ReSharper Helps Visual Studio Users Analyze code quality.
VB.Net Splitter (InformIT) In Visual Basic .NET, the technologies that enable you to create "standard" windows applications are part of the .NET Framework, available to any .NET language.
This is a huge change from earlier versions of Visual Basic. Learn what's different -- and how you can take advantage of it. Chapter 3: Building Windows Applications In This Chapter The Way Things Were The Windows Forms Model Handling Events in .NET Coding Without Control Arrays Configuring Your Form for Resizing Programming Without Default Form Instances Working with Multiple Forms in VB .NET In Brief The Way Things Were For most of Visual Basic's history, you did not need to specify you were building a rich-client application—all the applications you built were rich-client apps.
In Visual Basic .NET, the technologies that enable you to create "standard" windows applications are part of the .NET Framework, available to any .NET language.