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Re: These are a few of my favorite things

In response to chrisg's list of a few of his favorite things I thought I'd list some of mine.

Now, I wouldn't immediately think of these as my *favorite* things (except for Reflector), but they come in very handy when trouble-shooting those tricky issues, that you just have to love em.

Fiddler HTTP Debugger (IE plug-in)
http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/

Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector - excellent tool for answering those questions about the internals of the framework, or recovering lost source-code:
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.1 - new interface and you can customize the protocol analysers
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=18b1d59d-f4d8-4213-8d17-2f6dde7d7aac

.NET CLR Profiler for .NET 1.1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=86ce6052-d7f4-4aeb-9b7a-94635beebdda&displaylang=en

.NET CLR Profiler for .NET 2.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A362781C-3870-43BE-8926-862B40AA0CD0&displaylang=en

Managed Stack Explorer
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718348.aspx

And an unrelated, but useful tool for blog posts, Windows Live Writer
http://writer.live.com 

And let's not forget the code formatting plug-in for posting code snippets:
http://dunnhq.com/codeformatterforwindowslivewriter

 

Published Friday, July 20, 2007 1:33 AM by j.monty

Comments

 

chrisg said:

ahh reflector...the coders swiss army knife. With regards to microsoft netmon. I vastly prefer Wireshark and or ethereal.  Especailly when it comes to capturing Kerberos packets.  Although to be honest I have not played with netmon since it was in beta

July 20, 2007 3:41 PM
 

j.monty said:

Ah, true - WireShark is pretty cool.

Where I'm at, I'm limited from installing the winpcap packet level driver that gets installed....I can sniff packets and save them via NetMon and import them into wireshark - I've done that as well.

NetMon 3.1 has intellisense when writing rules - which is pretty cool and it works almost as well so I just go for the one shot solution.

July 20, 2007 4:06 PM
 

ChrisOC said:

Yep - love Fiddler, great HTTP traffic watcher.

One tool I can't live without is the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar - a lot like "FireBug" within FireFox.

Can view a page, and click a region - see all JavaScript & CSS - very useful for web page design/debug/format...>

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en

August 3, 2007 8:49 AM
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I have the privilege of working for an excellent Microsoft Partner and SouceCode Partner, ATGi for the past 13+ years. I have a real passion for software, computer security, and most things technical. For the past couple years I've been working with the DoD architecting K2 solutions. My interests are Computer and Internet/Computer Security, Workflow, and all that is .NET.