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Which standalone Windows GUI application do you recommend for use for accessing a Subversion repository?
Edit: A lot of people are mentioning Tortoise, however I am looking for an application not a shell extension. Also people are questioning my reasoning behind not wanting to use a shell extension. In our environment we rather interact with the repository (when not using an IDE plugin) through a management application and not navigate the files through Windows Explorer.
Standalone Clients
For total stand alone Synchro SVN is a powerful and cross platform solution. It looks like the most native application on each of the platforms.
The Subversion website includes a listing of other standalone SVN Clients (most are cross platform). [Copied list below from http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html#clients]
eSvn - cross-platform QT-based GUI frontend to Subversion
http://sourceforge.net/projects/esvn
FSVS - fast subversion command-line client centered around software deployment
http://fsvs.tigris.org/
KDESvn - A Subversion client for KDE
http://www.alwins-world.de/wiki/programs/kdesvn
QSvn - A cross-platform GUI Subversion client
http://ar.oszine.de/projects/qsvn/
RapidSVN - A cross-platform GUI front-end for Subversion
http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/
RSVN - Python script which allows multiple repository-side operations in a single, atomic transaction.
https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/rsvn/trac.cgi/wiki
SmartSVN - A cross-platform GUI client for Subversion
(Not open source. Available in a free and a commercial version.)
https://www.smartsvn.com/
Subcommander - A cross-platform Subversion GUI client including a visual text merge tool.
http://subcommander.tigris.org/
SvnX - A Mac OS X Panther GUI client.
http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/
Syncro SVN Client - Cross-platform graphical Subversion client.
(Not open source. Free trial versions available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.)
http://www.syncrosvnclient.com
WorkBench - Cross platform software development GUI built on Subversion written in Python
http://pysvn.tigris.org/
Versions - A GUI Subversion client for Mac OS X.
(Not open source; requires commercial license.)
http://www.versionsapp.com/
ZigVersion - a Subversion Interface for Mac OS X. Aims to design an interface around the typical workflows of programmers.
(Note that this is not open source.)
http://zigversion.com/
Integrated Clients
TortoiseSVN is the best general use system [An integrated system is not standalone - Thanks Martin Kenny]. It integrates itself into Windows Explorer (You can use it in explorer or any shell dialog) so it works extremely well and gives you the full power of SVN.
Ankhsvn is a good solution that integrates into Visual Studios (Except Express Editions).
SVN Notifier monitors your repositories and will notify you when anything changes. It integrates with TortoiseSVN to show you diffs and commit logs. Very handy when working in a team environment.
TortoiseSVN
From their website:
A Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension.
TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control
/ source control software for Windows. Since it's not an integration
for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you
like. TortoiseSVN is free to use. You don't need to get a loan or pay
a full years salary to use it.
You can try to use SmartSVN - https://www.smartsvn.com/
Can you explain why TortoiseSVN doesn't work for you? That would help us figure out what you really need in an application.
Combine TortoiseSVN with Windows Explorer and you've got a great tool, and then pickup VisualSVN if you want something to integrate with Visual Studio.
As a shell extension, I guess it's not technically a stand-alone application, but +1 for TortoiseSVN, nevertheless.
I'd recommend TortoiseSVN to get started with (basically, it adds SVN related contextual menus to explorer), but it can be shockingly memory hungry.
I generally use it when I need to, but also make use of the very clean and usable command line tools subversion comes with and Subclipse as part of Eclipse.
The one and only tortoiseSVN!
It is integrated in Windows Explorer, you invoke it with a right click. All commands are under the TortoiseSVN menu, except for frequently used commands such as update, commit or diff (it's configurable).
For some reason, the SVN proterties are located in a tab in the Properties menu, not in the TortoiseSVN menu. It makes sense, sort of, but it took some time getting used to it.
TortoiseSVN is excellent, but I only realised it was awesome when I moved to a Mac (where Tortoise is not available) and tried to find a decent tool. Nothing comes close.
If you don't like shell extensions TortoiseSVN can be used as an application through its handy automation interface - one executable several command arguements.
See TortoiseSVN Manual
Each command raises a modal dialog for a specific task.
For total stand alone Synchro SVN (60$) is one of the nicest looking and full featured ones. It is cross-platform (Win, Linux, OSX).
I use PHPStorm from JetBrains
It can be used in MAC or WIN PC environment. It has internal subversion/git/mercurial tool.
though you do have to pay for it ($50) they have 30 day fully functional trial.
SmartSVN is nice if you want a client that doesn't integrate with Explorer and is instead a standalone app. (Although I think later version offer an Explorer integration as well.)
Memory and disk IO can be a problem with TSVNCache, which manages Tortoise's icon overlays. You can fix it by putting your checkouts in one or two directories and making the cache process only look at those directories, rather than your entire drive.
See this link for instructions.
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I wonder is someone tried to create either kinda open standard for cross-platform installer for an application or the installer implementation? That means you can simply download single file from the website, and it's extension recognizable by any popular operating system? We have .pkg and .dmg files for mac, .msi and plain .exe installers for windows, .deb packages for linux (in case of debian), but we haven't universal for each platform (like .uoi (Universal Open Installer), lol).
One might think that this approach is impossible because every OS has it's own structure and files organization, but this installer could potentially contain instructions for each OS simultaneously, and it may contain even shared files (like pictures, textures or sounds) as they can be reused for each platform and they are platform-independent.
I think it's a good idea to implement such installer, free for all and open-source
"Mainstream": A shared packaging format seems elusive. However, there are a few multi-platform deployment tools available. Installsite.org has a list towards the bottom here. I guess the two most commonly used tools are (both are commercial):
Advanced Installer for Java / Advanced Installer Enterprise (Windows and Mac, no Linux)
Flexera InstallAnywhere (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Extended Universe: There are several other tools, one of which is Bitrock
InstallBuilder - a tool I know nothing about, so I can neither recommend nor dismiss it. There is also the QtInstaller Framework which I have yet to try. Seen people recommend install4j. Here is the install4j site: What are good InstallAnywhere replacements for installing a Java EE application?
Then there is Zero Install - a cross-platform packaging and distributions software - uncharted territory for me. And Steam, the cross-platform video game distribution, licensing and social game-play platform, developed and maintained by Valve. Used to shop for, download, install, update, uninstall and back up video games. It works on Windows, OS X and Linux. Similar to Steam is Uplay from Ubisoft - another video game distribution platform. Maybe PyInstaller should be mentioned? (cross platform Python programs).
Java: I encountered Oracle Universal Installer some time back in a SO question. A Java-based installer for Oracle tools. A mystery-tool. The now deprecated Java Applets of old, and the soon to be obsolete Java Web Start feature should be mentioned as cross-platform. Developers are supposed to migrate to jlink before the end of 2020 - Oracle PDF: Java Client Roadmap Update - Oracle PDF: Java Client Roadmap Update (superseded).
Future?: Not much in the realm of a real answer, but some pointers. As I keep repeating, I don't know much about these tools to be honest. I guess recent XML / Zip-based formats can be made cross-platform more easily than previous technologies such as Windows's COM structured storage files (the old MS Office file format, a file-system in a file essentially - streams of data) that were used for MSI installers. Time will tell. In the age of the cloud, who knows what will surface?
Struggle: I can, however, tell you that I have been struggling with multi-platform installers as a corporate application packager (not developing setups, just deploying them), and these multi-platform installers have always been problematic to deal with. Very non-standard and high astonishment factor at times to deal with. For example: you launch a setup.exe which only launches a second setup.exe and then exits reporting nothing sensible, so you don't know what happened to the actual install that was kicked of asynchronously at all. That kind of stuff. So you have to write weird scripts to check installation progress, etc... Dealing with a multi-platform installer has never been fun.
Some Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_management_systems
http://www.pyinstaller.org/ (cross platform Python programs)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_installation_software (maybe check Installer VISE)
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/deploy/self-contained-packaging.html
http://izpack.org/downloads/
Old mentions:
How can I convert my Java program to an .exe file?
Make Installer of java Application
What are good InstallAnywhere replacements for installing a Java EE application?
What is the best practice to auto upgrade MSI based application?
How to create a MSI Windows installer for a Java program?
Creating an installer for Java desktop application
https://stackoverflow.com/tags/java-web-start/info
I have used install builder and yeah its crossplatform.. the downside is you have to pay..
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What are your recommendations for setting up a development environment in Windows, especially when not using an IDE. I am attempting to familiarize myself with Windows, and I feel a bit lost. What do developers commonly work on, especially when developing in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, C) in the same time.
So far, I have been a hardline using Mac+Linux environments where I love my command line a lot. I pretty much run all my compilations, testing, code repository commands in the terminal and have multiple terminals all the time. Terminal features (e.g. integrated bash completion, easy copy&paste, easy to setup environment variables) and package management tools (e.g. apt-get, port, fink) are quite handy. I dislike hunting down different websites to install their latest binary build.
Coming back to my question. My question is two fold:
What's commonly used? Do developers on Windows commonly use command line, or just be satisfied with an IDE?
For comers from Linux/Mac world: what do you recommend to get up to speed?
NOTE: I realize that a lot of Windows developers haven't used Linux, so they may not know what I'm talking about when it comes to Linux environment.
It's almost unheard of to not use an IDE for Windows development.
I started programming in the early 80's so grew up on the command line, but nothing beats a modern IDE for productivity.
By far the most common choice is Visual Studio, though I have also used #develop (open source) and find it a fine platform to get up to speed with.
I have used Eclipse extensively (on Linux and Windows) and find Visual Studio to be easier to use. I especially miss options for debugging under windows such as moving the instruction pointer around during debug and change-and-continue (change the code, within limits, while debugging, move the instruction pointer back if necessary, and keep debugging).
If you have used Eclipse, Visual Studio or #develop will not be that hard to get used to.
I tend to install cygwin, which is a unix emulation layer and includes many of the standard unix utilities (grep, awk, sed, etc). You can use bash or any other unix shell with cygwin to basically give yourself a unix environment on windows.
There are some downsides, paths are a good example. Windows programs expect windows paths while the unix tools expect unix paths. You can convert between the two using the cygpath program, but sometimes its tricky to know when to use it.
Another thing I do fairly often is create a bunch of batch files that load different programs onto my path. This allows me to have different version of say java installed and I can pick the version I want to use for any given shell session. I link a bunch of these together so that I have a full environment for the program I'm working on. For example, if I require java 1.5, maven, subversion then I would have a batch file to load each into the environment, then have a master file that loads all of them for a standard environment.
This approach gives a lot of flexibility and is really easy to maintain and work with different environment simultaneously.
Most windows developers that develop on the microsoft stack of products probably use Visual Studio. For windows development without Visual Studio, SharpDevelop is the current most popular alternative.
However if you are looking for a user experience more similar to linux you can always use windows command prompt and all of the command prompt compilers still exist. Just like with linux you'll have to modify your environmental variables to make everything work you you'd like it to.
If that still isn't close enough to the feel on linux, you can try out Cygwin.
Many of your common utilities from linux like gdb do have windows builds as well.
And of course there is the Eclipse IDE that is used for many languages, by many people, on multiple platforms. It is very extendable.
Some other tools you may be missing:
GCC - Available Via Cygwin
MS Build can give you similar functionality to what you had with make (I'm not sure if nmake is still used/supported)
Vi/Vim
Grep
SysInternals will have lots of various file/process monitoring utilities to hopefully adequately replace what you miss being able to simply get from /proc
Wireshark(or ethereal) to replace well... wireshark/ethereal/
Tail is available in the Windows Resource Kit
Emacs
Hopefully that covers most of your basic tasks.
Microsoft now has a real shell for Windows: Windows PowerShell.
In addition to Cygwin, there are ports for a lot of the GNU utilities and toolchain to Windows. GnuWin32 seems to be a more up-to-date version than UnixUtils. MSYS is essentially a port of BASH to Windows, but it's fairly useless without the MinGW userland.
C++ / .NET Development: Visual Studio 2008
Java / PHP Development: Eclipse IDE, which also supports C/C++.
For a non-IDE solution, Notepad++ is a very good code highlighter that supports many languages.
Simply install cygwin. The quality has improved dramatically in recent years. I'm currently running cygwin x64 on Vista, and it's great.
One thing to especially take note of in cygwin is your path. Most troubleshooting with scripts and installed software should begin there.
The other tip I'd give is to use the rxvt terminal over the standard issue cygwin terminal. It might be installed by default nowadays, but check to make sure.
Visual Studio for .net/C++ (even the express editions are useful)
The sysinternals tools rock, especially Procmon and process explorer.
If you do native/C++ work knowing windbg can be helpful
Notepad++ and gvim are my preferred editors
For doing command line/shell stuff I often use python to write short scripts (for anything but the simplest batch file)
If you are familiar with .net then learning powershell isn't much of a stretch and there is a ton of functionality available
I'm trying/thinking of making CppCMS - C++ Web Framework project little bit more cross platform.
Today I can easily support Linux, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD and even Cygwin. But when it comes to Native Windows it becomes really painful:
The overview of the situation:
I'm POSIX/Linux developer and I'm barely familiar with Native Windows development tools like Visual Studio and Win32 API. However I do some work for this platform so I understand the limitations and the fact that Windows is totally different world.
This is web project that uses APIs that popular in Unix world, like: CGI, FastCGI and SCGI that implemented in most UNIX web servers; but I understand that I would not be able to use it with IIS because it does not support FastCGI over TCP/IP (only Windows pipes).
So even when it would work it would probably run only with Windows port of Apache.
I relay heavily on POSIX API:
Pref-forking allows be keep high survivability in case of crashing (not supported under windows) so this feature would be missing.
I use some file-locking facilities (but I can probably give them up without forking)
I have intensive use of native pthreads, even I can replace them with Boost.Thread
I probably would never be able to support Visual Studio (maybe 2010 with C++0x support), because I relay on C++0x decltype/auto feature or typeof/__typeof__ extension that is supported by most compilers I worked with: gcc, intel, sun studio. (To be honest: I can work without them but it makes the life much easier to framework user.
I relay heavily on autotools and I can't replace them with CMake, bjam or friends, because when it comes to support of internationalization, cross copiling, package management, they just does not give me a solution.
There are many annoying points like missing gmtime_r, or localtime_r under windows and many others that just require from me to rewrite them or replace them with 3rd part libraries.
There are still many "UNIX like" libraries that ported to Win32 like: iconv, gcrypt and some others that are barely ported like libdbi that have many limitations on windows.
Bottom line:
There is lots of non-trivial work to do, and even when it would be complete, it would probably work only with MingW tools and not "native" tools that Windows programmers are
familiar with.
So, my questions are:
Does such MingW port worth an effort? Would this help to build bigger community?
Does anybody have experience on how painful porting big projects from POSIX environment to
Win32 API is?
Would it be useful for Windows developers at all?
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It is also important for me to understand, how many of windows developers prefer to use
Open source development tools, MingW over Microsoft development solutions like VS.
Edit #2: Clearification about "native" windows solusions and IIS.
In fact, running framework with IIS is really hard problem. I explain:
The project relates to standard web server API as FastCGI or SCGI that allows to accept many requests over sinlge socket. Thus, on application side, I accept new request proceed it and returns the answer. Sometimes several threads process several requests.
Thus, implementing one or two standard protocols I open communication with any existing server: Apache, lighttpd, nginx, cherokee... or any other servers; with small exception of IIS
IIS has implementation of FastCGI, but... It supports only 1 connection per local process only that controlled by web server...
So... there is absolutely no standard way to connect my application to IIS.
Please note, I implement standard Web server API, I do not implement Neither IIS proprietary ISAPI nor Apache proprietary API, even the second is more important as for targeting UNIX world.
So, just Windows IIS Web world is just not really ready for cooperation for such project, so if anybody would use it under Windows it would use it with more open web servers.
You should base your decision on user demand. Have users ever requested using the framework on Windows? If so, did they explain why they wanted to use Windows (e.g. what additional constraints they had, what webserver they wanted to use, etc.)?
Typically, Windows users do expect that things work the Windows way. That means Visual Studio support, IIS support, MSI installer, and so on. If something still feels like being Unix, I would rather use Unix proper, instead of fighting with a half-working port.
As a windows client app developer it sort of hurts me that the development environment division currently is essentially Win32 and everything else and that they are mostly incompatible. That's why I'm preparing to move to MinGW for my personal windows app projects and to try to make them cross-platform.
I would suggest gradually moving to more cross-platform libraries like, as you suggested, refactoring pthreads to boost::thread, or going from fork() to multi-process with IPC, probably also using boost's facilities. Date/time stuff can be dealt with Boost libs as well. As for database support, there are
Microsoft compiler support is not that important I think, as MinGW provides a decent build environment with all the IDEs that support it, Eclipse CDT and Dev-C++ being among the most popular. But if you are going to make your project msvc-compatible, make sure users will be able to use Express editions of Visual Studio 2010 (as soon as thay come out) - that way no one will have to fork out for a Visual Studio 2010 (upgrade) just to use your project and there will be no problem for you to require the latest in Microsoft technology.
Most likely you won't avoid some amount of ifdefs for a code base of your project's size, but surely the effort might be worth it, if not only for gaining valuable experience and expanding the community with a few new happy and grateful members.
Your saying that you can support Cygwin quite easily reminds me that I've seen commercial Windows software that simply bundled in cygwin1.dll to support some originally-Unix code. If adding cygwin1.dll to your installer is all it takes, try it out.
I think you only have to look at the questions asked on SO to work out that MinGW users on Windows (of which I am one) are in a minority in the development community - the vast majority of Windows developers are using MS tools. Anyway, the compiler is only half (or less) of the issue - if your architecture depends on forking lots of processes, using MinGW is not going to help you. My advice is, if you really want to do cross platform development:
look at how Apache do it
consider using the Apache libraries as your base
don't use very new or compiler-specific language features
use multi-threading rather than multi-process
Does such MingW port worth an effort? Would this help to build bigger community?
I am still working myself on this issue with my own large POSIX project and my conclusion is that if you need to later interface with Microsoft products, then its worth while, however then I would only use MingW if project is medium small, if it is very large, then I would go all the way with MSDN Microsoft development tools - Huge amount of help will be available there - however it will cost
Does anybody have experience on how painful porting big projects from POSIX environment to Win32 API is?
sofar my own conversion of my POSIX project have been constantly put on hold, because of the amount of time each issue takes to handle is enormous - not finished converting yet - If I ever will be
Would it be useful for Windows developers at all?
Sure working inside the Microsoft IDE using tools from MSDN will definately decrease development time, however it will increase your dependence on Microsoft libraries - something you need to decide from beginning if that is an issue
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Actually you could just add the necessary cygwin dlls to your projects make and then you would beable to run it in windows
I managed to make my POSIX project run when I added following dlls
cygboost_filesystem.dll
cygboost_system-mt-1_53.dll
cygboost_thread.dll
cyggcc_s-1.dll
cygstdc++-6.dll
cygwin1.dll
Probably your project will have different dependencies, however if you think conversion is not worth it, then perhaps this is a solution for you
You could also add your libs as static, then you would end up with only having to provide the last cygwin1.dll
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Does anyone know of free tools (languages, environments) that would support development of GUI applications on the Windows platform?
I am looking to be able to create a single executable file that has no dependencies on any external runtime or library.
I would like to be able to then run this EXE in a very similar manner to Process Explorer or Autoruns from SysInternals. In other words; a no installer, portable application.
This application must also provide a reasonably rich windowing (controls, widgets etc) user interface and should run on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and later.
I'm aware of C/C++ but I'm looking for an environment/language that provides more specific and faster support for GUI development. Also, Delphi costs money.
For quick prototyping, Autoit is a viable option (but it is a scripting language though).
Combined with Scite as an Editor, and autoit to exe capability (AutoIt3.exe in Scite and Autoit3Wrapper.exe to actually produce exe), you have a full GUI development environment.
AutohotKey is an alternative, but based on old AutoitV2.
Still, you can execute AutohotKey scripts from Autoit ;)
Run("c:\Program Files\Autohotkey\Autohotkey.exe c:\scripts\devicesset.ahk")
While interactive debugging is not natively supported, they are (2008, but in 2014: was?) several debugging tools to facilitate the debug process. (from this ticket)
Update 2014: the "AutoEditDebugger" might not be supported:
EDIT October 2009: NB This script has not been maintained since some time in 2008. Due to some problem with the editor it crashes in Vista.
Delphi is definitely a good way to go. There is a free version called Turbo Delphi.
The version available is a couple of years old, so it's a shame they haven't release Turbo versions of the new stuff.
There are also trials available of the full fledged RAD Studio, but I don't think that's what you're looking for.
You can Get Turbo Delphi and Turbo C++ Builder explorer editions for free, and you can develop with them native application that you can have only .exe file without any dependencies on any windows version from (win98 to win7), both of them include more than 200 components, and you can use more (without installing to IDE that the only restriction), and you develop with them free and commercial software.
Delphi is the most RAD(Rapid Application Development) IDE that you can use to produce windows application in very easy and efficient way, you get fast developing application with fast execution time compared to speed of C++.
Another option to use Lazarus IDE, which based on FreePascal compiler, so you can have your application running on windows/linux/MacOS/Unix and more.
Visual C++ Express + WTL. Both are free. WTL is a relatively good(1) windowing library. No wizards, though, and you have to have good understanding of the Win32 windowing system.
You can also use Visual C# Express along with Mono to build WinForms app. While the end result is not technically a standalone executable and requires a framework, Mono dlls can be distributed along your exe (2), so you can just have a single folder for xcopy deployment. (And I think on Windows with .Net installed, your exe will be run on .Net automatically)
(1) I am spoiled by WPF. :-)
(2) Read on the intertubes. I have not personally tried it, though.
Perhaps not an option given your statement regarding C++, but if you are developing an open source / free application then Qt is a very nice GUI toolkit with designer.
Also, wxWidgets is a very functional toolkit that will allow you to deploy a single exe, although the best GUI designers are not free.
Maybe D is an option? A friend of mine blogged about a GUI Designer for D here and I believe that the resulting executable has no dependencies.
Just use VS.NET with C and Win32 api.
No runtime needed of course, as the CRT is native.
You should use Digital Mars C/C++ in pure C and program with GDI32 functions of WIN32 API (Just #include ). Don't forget to link your binary object executable with gdi32.lib.
Check out Microsoft's Express editions of their developer tools.
If you're doing very simple applications, AutoIt might be an option as it requires no runtime files and its executables will even run on WinPE. It's a bit primitive though and not exactly object-oriented. It works a bit like the old VB. It is, however, free and easy to learn and apart from something like NSIS (NullSoft Install System) there aren't many free, standalone GUI creators.
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Some of the most efficient engineers, developers and IT professionals I know usually carry around a common "toolkit" of useful programs, add-ins or utilities which help them for day-to-day debugging, developing or designing.
The question is:
What is in your utility toolkit.. What tools couldn't you live without?
Unix Utilities for Windows
Ack
Its like grep, but better, faster, and does more what you want to generally do with large source collections. Written in Perl, and does complete PCRE because of this. Recursive traversal is default, and it intelligently skips files that are unlikely to match using file-type identification to short cut.
( This means it automatically avoids traversing .svn/.hg/.git directories and thus gives massive speedups )
ack "function\s+foo\s*\(" --php
# find the definition of "foo" in all php files
# decendant of the current directory
Total Commander (GREP, FTP, ZIP, it's all here...I'm not even starting on this one)
Notepad++
WinMerge
Python. Seriously. I use it for a lot of small stuff. I also like to use the command line module for creating easy little project specific "shells" that I drop in frequently used queries etc. (show all tables in the projects db, search for stored procedures etc. - yeah, doing a lot of t-sql lately...)
I tend to accompany big c#/t-sql projects with a little python script that extends the cmd.Cmd class to give me a small collection of helpful queries etc. that I can use to poke around in the database.
Also, I often use python to modify input data (often csv files, but any junk will do) into insert statements etc. Or do plausibility tests on that data.
Currently on my thumbdrive (not ALL software):
Notepad++
.NET Reflector
develop (incase I need a quick IDE setup on a different computer)
C# Default Keybindings pdf
Math tables pdf
Boo Primer pdf
MSDN C# & VB Example projects
My Utility toolkit would have:
1.) Hex Editor - XVI32, or any other
2.) Beyond Compare - Comparison of files
3.) Cygwin shell installable complete with perl, gcc,gprof,gcov,gdb and related tools,bash,vim, development/debugging tools
4.) A model makefile for *nix platform
5.) Winzip utility
6.) Source insight or any other good code browsing tool
7.) Ghostscript and GSView
8.) PDF reader
9.) Good quick antivirus tool/exe
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Currently in Thumbdrive\Tools.
"Edit Plus 3" - lightweight editor that I've been using for ages.
"F# - 1.9.6.2" - great for when I need to throw something togheter since it's usable without an IDE, also a great language for many tasks.
"ildasm"
"Sysinternal Procmon" - great for debugging and getting a feel for what the machine is really doing.
I have the following tools on my USB thumd drive:
SysInternals Suite All their great troubleshooting tools in one download, in case I might need a tool that I didn't download before
WireShark setup
VNC binaries (so I can run the viewer directly from USB) and setup
A couple of Portable Apps:
Notepad++ Portable
Putty Portable
FileZilla Portable
7-zip Portable
Sumatra PDF Portable
WinMerge Portable
I use/carry with me:
.Net Reflector
The SysInternals
Suite (particularly Process Explorer, Debug View etc)
Exescope
Orca (Windows Installer)
Depends
Spy++ OleView
Resourcer
Ethereal
IE Dev toolbar
Depends .Net
DocView
LDP (For LDAP)
Just to name a few
I do a full install of cygwin. It gives me 95% of the stuff I need and hard drive space is cheep. It's a lot easier to install everything then get emacs, gcc, gdb, perl, utilitys such as grep and awk, not to mention the servers it comes with like Apache and MySQL if you want to try something out quick.
grep gives you the biggest bang for the buck. You can use it to search on any type code and many forms of data. It is fast, and very powerful. In code it can locate what you're looking for in variables and function names, but also in comments. You can also pipe results into it, and can thus enhance the utility of many tools available on site.
With some clever hints you can easily make grep search for a specific type of an identifier. For instance, "^function_name" will often find in C code a function's definition, because these start with the name of the function at the beginning of the line. If a search pattern gives you too many false matches, you can filter those out, by piping the result through grep -v.
Many years ago I was stranded debugging COBOL programs on a 1970s-era Perkin Elmer machine running OS/32. The machine lacked programming tools, but had an ancient C compiler (so old, it would accept =+ as the original form of the += operator). I ended up writing a rudimentary grep program, which immensely improved my productivity.
Notepad ++
FF + Firebug
Jquery + bunch of plugins
DBManager
Cygwin for error tracking
Google for help
Docs in CHM & Cheatsheets
I always seem to have a bootable Linux Distro on me in SOME form or other. Whether it be the bootable Pen Drive I keep attached to my Keys, or the multitude of LiveCDs I have for various "diagnostics" - I find that if I am in a situation, generally, where I'd need some sort of tools... a reboot into a Live environment provides me with near enough everything I need, and more
PE Explorer
FAR Manager (great file manager especially when working with lots of ftp sites)
FlexHex
Ida
OllyDbg
Emacs. It's my "does list of things" tool, helpful with quick calculations, with mangling configuration files (I work as a network engineer, there is an awful lot of configuration to be done, lots of it bordering on trivial to generate with either small snippets of code or careful use of keyboard macros).
Here's the tools I use to make Sharepoint solutions:
Visual Studio Team Suite 2008
VSTS Database Edition GDR
Sandcastle
DocProject for Sandcastle
.net Reflector
GhostDoc
CSS Vista
Sharepoint Inspector
Sharepoint Explorer
EditPadPro
CodeSmith 2.6 Freeware (with my own .net 3.5 SP1 gui)
Indigo Rose MSI Factory
Wix
Nmap
Wireshark
Fiddler
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Expresso (Regex tool)
VMRCPlus
Powershell 2 CTP
Quest PowerGui for Powershell
IIS Resource Kit
HyperV
Tools I use because you do not have to install, just drop on system and use:
Agent Ransack
7-zip
PSPad
Robocopy : Need to extract from Windows 2003 resource kit (just grab the .exe)
Fast image viewer that has been around for a long time and proven to work.
IrfanView
ide: visual studio / netbeans (zip file!, almost portable)
editor: notepad++ (portable) with monaco font
file comparison: winmerge (portable)
source control: subversion, tortoise
ticket control: redmine
file manager: free commander (portable)
explorer: IE, FF (portable), chrome (portable), iron (chrom without google crap, also portable), qtweb, arora,
FF plugins: firebug, web developer, xmarks
imclient: pidgin
mail client: gmail
download manager: free download manager (portable)
sites: STACKOVERFLOW!!!, gotapi... and google, all the time...
miscelaneous: launchy (can't live without it!)
virtualization: virtual box (I have a machine image for every environment)
office: openoffice (portable)
lamp stack: xammp (portable!)
disk usage: windirstat (portable), scanner (portable)
pdf viewer: foxit (portable), sumatrapdf (portable)
uncompressor: 7-zip portable
M$ sql comparison tool: sql delta
M$ sql management: visual studio sql manager
mysql
mysql management: phpmyadmin, manager provided with mysql
uninstaller utility: revo unistaller (portable)
registry cleaner: ccleaner (portable)
ftp: filezilla (portable)
as you may have noticed, I have a special predilection for portable applications...
gVim
VS2010 Express
Firefox + Firebug
System Rescue CD
A collection of very useful utilities on a Live CD
There are two tools I simply can't work without
PowerShell
GVim (or really any vim style program)
These tools are so heavily ingrained into my daily routine and greatly increase my productivity.
Since I'm often working on different workstations, I've got into the habit of tagging the stuff that I install on delicious:
http://delicious.com/DavidSchmitt/stdsw
wc.exe (from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) so handy.
WinRAR and puTTY. That is all I need (i'm assuming internet doesn't count).
.Net Reflector
Powershell
Stackoverflow.Com
I like to program in Python so I have created a portable Python programming environment on a thumbdrive.
Portable Python 1.0
SPE Python editor
wxPython in Action ebook
Python How to Program ebook
Several Python ebooks from O'Reilly
Various tutorials for Python tools I don't use often
Development Tools
Subversion
Tortoise SVN
Useful tools/utils
Virtual Cd Control Tool
Linq Pad
Reflector
Subversion Commit Monitor
BGInfo
SourceGear Diff Merge
Unlocker
MWSnap
Paint.NET
WinRar
FireFox Add Ons
Firebug
ColorZilla
Visual Studio Add Ins
GhostDoc
The utility toolkit or the Tools List that every developer should have described in the following link from Scott Hanselman:
Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
I use Espresso (I got it with the MacHeist bundle!), and Firebug for coding. I use Photoshop if I need any images.
I manage my projects with The Hit List.