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Has anyone got any recommendations for tools/utilities to use in creating/debugging XPath queries for Windows ?
SketchPath looks like it might help (and is free)
If you have Notepad++, there's an XML tools plugin. Among the tools in that plugin is a simple XPath expression evaluator. Sketchpatch is much more complete (I've tried it and it's nice) but if you use Notepad++ all the time it's worth knowing about this plugin.
There is a new plugin for Notepad++: XPatherizerNPP. The biggest advantage it has over XML Tools is the reverse lookup feature.
There are a couple of good options on Codeplex ..
XPathVisualiser at http://xpathvisualizer.codeplex.com/
XMLExplorer at http://xmlexplorer.codeplex.com/
Liquid XML Studio comes with an XPath visualizer. The stand alone version is free in the community edition. If you want to integrate it into visual studio then you have to buy it though.
It highlights the results as you type, and has auto complete on the XPath expression.
I've been using XmlSpy.
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I developing a small project with F# on Visual Studio 2012. I'm used to C# development, and it seems to me that C# has a far far (far) better support in the environment than F#, and even better support when adding resharper.
Are there any plugins that can improve that?
I would love snippets, better templates, code folding, refactoring, etc...
Is there is an open source project trying to achieve this?
As mentioned in the comments, there are fewer advanced code editing tools for F# than for C#. This is one thing where the F# community is quite active, so it is good idea to follow the mailing list and fsharp.org web site.
One less widely known thing is that the standard tooling includes (not very tested) support for collapsing of code blocks and navigation bar that can be turned on.
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I'd love to do some stuff in Prolog. Just need a good IDE for the Mac to make it not a pain in the butt. Which IDE do you recommend?
There is also a free Prolog IDE based on Eclipse, PDT, available from:
https://sewiki.iai.uni-bonn.de/research/pdt/start
Along the lines of "not really an IDE" answers, Textmate seems to be a favorite of OS X developers.
There seems to be some Prolog community support for it as well.
https://github.com/textmate/prolog.tmbundle
http://calltopower.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/prolog-textmate-plugin/
Not exactly about IDes but the current Logtalk distribution includes support for several text editors and syntax highlighters that can also be used for Prolog programming:
http://trac.logtalk.org/browser/trunk/wenv
The Prolog FAQ also contains useful information about editing and publishing Prolog code (sections 15 and 16):
http://www.logic.at/prolog/faq/
There are several plugin's available for Eclipse which work rather well with prolog. Theres a SICStus plug in which we use in Uni, although I dont believe its free, theres also a few other options in the Eclipse Marketplace (Under the Help menu)
Try CiaoDE plus GNU Emacs. CiaoDE is a state of the art prolog system with lots of libraries that runs in OS X, Linux and Windows.
You can try to use XGP for this.
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What's the best dedicated search-and-replace GUI tool on a Mac? "Find & Replace It!" seems decent, but they've ridiculously disabled the replace function in the demo, so I can't give it a real test before paying. Is there anything else comparable or better?
TextWrangler (free) or its big brother BBEdit (not free).
It seems that the version 1.0 of Find & Replace It! allows replacing in its trial version. Personnaly I like it for its preview feature and its scripting possibilities.
https://find-and-replace-it.com/
[update] New link
you don't have to pay a dime for anything! If your OS has bash/sed/find/etc and other *nix tools, you can do your own script to do find and replace!
eg if you have sed
sed -i.bak 's/find/replace/g' *.txt
Huge overkill, but Eclipse's find and replace dialogue is pretty solid. Supports regexes with excellent syntax help.
I was going to recommend sed as well, if it hadn't been for the gui requirement :)
vim
:%s/pattern/replace/g
Search&Replace over at http://searchreplaceapp.com/
Take a look to Replacr
http://replacr.com
Here you can read a review
http://www.addictivetips.com/mac-os/replacr-for-os-x-batch-find-replace-text-in-txt-rtf-files/
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As a learning exercise I'm building a basic scientific computation environment based on .NET. I'd like the GUI of the app to be much like matlab, in that I have an interactive window, an objects window and the facility to spawn visualisation windows. Intellisense in my command window would be very nice. It seems visual studio itself could almost be used in this manner, is this a viable option? Creating the visualisations within the VS environment seems like the only hurdle. What could I do here?
Eclipse is also an option I suppose but I'd prefer to stay totally with .NET if possible.
Any other suggestions?
You could take a look at MonoDevelop here to provide some help. It is open-source and one of the nicer IDEs.
You could also build something based on GEdit, as it is very pluggable.
Those are the two tools, plus the CLI that I use for .NET development, but I am entirely on Linux/Unix using the Mono tools.
Hope that helps!
I've just discovered VSlab. Its specific to F#, however its a good demonstration of what I would like to be able to do with my own DSL in terms of visualisation and an interactive editor.
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Does anyone have any recommendations of tools that can be of assistance with moving literal values into resource files for localization?
I've used a resharper plugin called RGreatX but was wondering if there is anything else out there.
It's one heck of a long manual process for moving the strings across and think there must be a better way! RGreatX is OK but could be a bit slicker I feel.
Here's one:
http://www.codeplex.com/ResourceRefactoring
It'a actually a Microsoft "open source" Visual Studio(2005 and up) tool that integrates with the IDE. You can easily replace every occurence of a string with a ressource reference with a few clicks.
You may find Zeta Resource Editor useful too.
ReSharper itself (5.0+) now has support for localization which includes moving strings to resource files and highlighting localizabile strings.
Try Visual Localizer - you can batch-process whole code, select which strings may be localized and the tool will add them to a resource file and create a reference instead. Many other features easing localization are included.