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dotPeek – JetBrains replaces .NET Reflector

May 19, 2011September 12, 2020 Gunnar Peipman 898 Views 5 Comments

Today I got e-mail from JetBrains stating that there is dotPeek early build available for download. dotPeek is .NET assemblies decompiler that is offered for free and that should replace .NET Reflector (not free anymore). dotPeek will also be part of ReSharper 6. In this posting I will give you brief introduction about dotPeek.

.NET C# Tools

Using MemBus for messaging between application components

September 23, 2010May 17, 2018 Gunnar Peipman 700 Views 3 Comments

Sometimes we need publisher/subscriber messaging in our applications to broadcast messages to different parts of system in real time. We

C# Tools

Unity, Castle Windsor, StructureMap, Ninject – who has best performance?

September 21, 2010September 12, 2020 Gunnar Peipman 701 Views 12 Comments

I made quick comparison of performance of four DI/IoC containers. I measured Unity,Castle Windsor, StructureMap and Ninject in two scenarios – resolving objects with empty constructor and resolving object with injected parameters in its constructor. Results are here.

Tools Visual Studio

Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image

September 3, 2010September 12, 2020 Gunnar Peipman 741 Views 1 Comment

I am auditing one big legacy application. I use Visual Studio 2010 modeling projects to visualize the design of this legacy application. When I wanted to get my UML diagrams to image files so I can insert them to documents I found no option for it. As it turned out we have to write extension for modeling projects and deploy it as Visual Studio 2010 extension. Here is the installer and source package of my UML.SaveAsImage extension.

.NET C# Tools

Using Sandcastle to build code contracts documentation

May 21, 2010December 18, 2019 Gunnar Peipman 826 Views 2 Comments

In my last posting about code contracts I showed how code contracts are documented in XML-documents. In this posting I will show you how to get code contracts documented with Sandcastle and Sandcastle Help File Builder.

Tools Windows

Using Orca to manage MSI packages

February 27, 2010January 31, 2020 Gunnar Peipman 728 Views 1 Comment

There are many programs that come with MSI installer and not every installer is free of bugs or small problems. If you are building your own installer using Visual Studio you may want to change it before publishing it to users. Here is little overview of my main free tool called Orca.

Data platform Tools

The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created

April 8, 2009January 31, 2020 Gunnar Peipman 633 Views 20 Comments

When changing tables in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 you may get the following error: Saving changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. I was surprised when I saw this message first but there is very simple solution.