COM+
COM components are often used in backend, require elaborate workflows, complex GUIs. For ad hoc testing at for example customer site with specific inputs, separate test application needs to be created. APITester tries to solve this problem, It reads the typelibrary and presents a simple user interface that lists exposed apis and their parameters.
File Utilities
Over the period number of files grow, change, removed, copied and moved etc. Keeping track of these will be a challenge unless they are backed up and tracked to restore when needed.
- Backup archives and their meta data should be transferable, encrypted.
- Single copy of the file should be stored in the backup archive.
- A backup should not only store new or changed files but also keep links to older files.
- It should be possible to restore backups to a different folder.
- It should be possible to directly edit a backup to add / remove files without having the backup folder.
- and much more.
It's an command line utility to truncate a big file into small pieces, later to be assembled. Useful for sending big attachment files in mails, copying a big file into cloud etc
When there is an urgent need to free up space, getting a fair idea of the storage distribution becomes paramount. Also Multiple copies of the same file such as pictures gets spread across the disk. It also becomes important to keep track from security Point of View.
FileOrganiser tool attempts to address this by
- Provide a hierarchical view of the storage distribution along with options to sort data in multiple ways.
- Track duplicate files
- Compare two folders having different folder structures but same files
- Export file names with their CRCs
Often times applications require files to be zipped to a .zip file and extract files from the same. makezip_unzip.vbs uses Windows shell do this easily.
Often times software, data files etc. needs to be packaged and sent across. Zip files are sufficient in most cases. However, sometimes complex deployment needs could arise. For example, multiple versions, operations on the files, folders before copy and after copy etc.
Easy Installer Creator provides an easy MSI based solution.
Source Indexing enables downloading source code from source control during debugging in Visual Studio. This is very helpful while debugging production issues of older releases. The current Source Indexing setup from Microsoft doesn't support RTC repository. Writing the same in Perl seems complicated for those unfamiliar with Perl.
RTC repository Source Indexer enables Source indexing RTC Repositories seamlessly.
In many development environments, updating outdated Installers of the development tools can be challenging as the original development environment used for generating the installer will be no longer available.
In such cases, an installer can be disassembled, changes be applied and reassembled back using MS installer APIs.
In the diversified development environment of today, multiple code repositories are used by cross development teams. As each have an indigenous way to deal with patches, a generic method of creating and applying patches is much desired along with recursive folder comparison and viewing the file differences and other operations. The portable patch tool attempts to address.
During a project's life cycle, moving the code base to the next version of visual studio becomes necessary to take advantage of newer features.
This can be daunting task if there are a large number of projects.
Visual Migration Helper utility makes it a breeze.
Network
Unlike IPv4, configuring and retrieving IPv6 information on a PC can be daunting. Depending on the configuration, multiple IP address might be returned by an IPv6 host. IPV6Configurator utility retrives and sets IPV6 addresses seamlessly.
Database
Open Database Connectivity or ODBC is a part of the windows OS that enables accessing data from different data sources using a single interface. For example, RDBMS, text files, excel files etc. using Structured Query Language or SQL.
There are no tools available by the OS to query using SQL.
Stockmarket
There are plenty of free web portals for doing research to pick a stock . Example, Yahoo finance, Google Finance, finviz, trading view etc. These provide valuable information such as real-time quotes, charts, news, institution actions etc. However, it requires hopping to different web browser tabs or windows.
RVV Quotemate attempts to provide an integrated view by creating a split view where top view provides real time quotes, alerts etc for the portfolio and bottom view displays the chosen web portal for the selected stock.
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