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• Inline Search in IE

  Inline Search from IE Forge is a must have utility for Internet Explorer. It gives new FireFox-like inline search UI to IE and does find as you type. Find has also been a feature I haven't liked in IE. I can never figure out what it highlighted on the Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:03 AM by dancre | 1 Comments Filed under: Utilities

• Console is a nice cmd.exe replacement!

  Long ago I complained about cmd.exe. At the time, I tried out some of the replacements and didn't find anything I liked. But, I just tried out a Console 2.0 beta, and I love it! The way it hosts cmd.exe is necessarily a bit of a hack, but they pull it Read More... Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:03 AM by dancre | 2 Comments Filed under: Utilities

• Snoop - an awesome WPF debugging utility

  Pete Blois posted an awesome WPF debugging utilty called Snoop here . Read More... Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 8:32 PM by dancre | 0 Comments Filed under: Utilities

• Windows Live Writer Beta

  I've used Windows Live Writer Beta for my last few posts and it's worked pretty well. It's much nicer than typing posts into IE, and I'm not worried about hitting the wrong key and losing them. Unfortunately, code doesn't retain it's style when pasted Read More... Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:21 PM by dancre | 0 Comments Filed under: Utilities

• Microsoft Acquires Winternals/Sysinternals

  News story here . This is exciting. Those guys are brilliant. The Windows Internals book is awesome, and I love the tools at http://www.sysinternals.com . I use them all the time. I hope they'll be able to keep cranking out tools. Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:36 AM by dancre | 3 Comments Filed under: Utilities

• VirtualPC is now free!

  You can get it here . Virtual PC is really useful. It's great for running multiple versions of the OS and for trying out software without risk of screwing up your system. Read More... Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 8:59 PM by dancre | 0 Comments Filed under: Utilities

• GhostDoc is a great tool for inserting documentation in Visual Studio

  I've just started trying out GhostDoc . You can select a method and it will fill out the XML document comments for the function. For example, here's what it generated for the CanHorizontallyScroll method from my VirtualizingTilePanel: /// <summary> Read More... Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 8:54 PM by dancre | 0 Comments Filed under: Utilities

• I love the birds eye view in local.live.com

  http://local.live.com is now live (no pun intended!). I love the new birds eye view and the ability to look at something from different angles. I'm looking forward to have birds eye view available in more locations. Read More... Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:36 AM by dancre | 0 Comments Filed under: Utilities