Oleg Sych

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for working with text. Unfortunately, like most powerful tools, it is also complex and difficult to learn. In business application development, I find myself having to use regular expressions only once every couple of month, which gives me enough time to forget how to write them. That’s where the […]

I have been using TFS Power Tools for a while and thought it would be a good idea to mention it now that a new version was released.
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command-line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience.

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I came across a new live product Microsoft released recently as a beta – SharedView. It is a free online presentation tool, similar to WebEx and Microsoft Office Live Meeting. I found it simpler and easier to use then WebEx. You get all the features you would expect – sharing a slideshow, a document or […]

Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting […]

Resource Refactoring Tool is an add-on for Visual Studio 2005 that helps you to quickly extract all copies of a literal string from source code into a resource file. Version 1.0 came out on February 13. Great tool; works as advertised; fits right in with other refactorings.
 
There is one minor problem you might run […]