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[Cool Tool] Vector Magic
24 June 08 06:47 PM | Laurent Duveau
Vector Magic is an online tool that converts bitmaps into vector images . It provides a wizard that helps you through the process, so you can easily generate your vector graphics from bitmaps, then import into Microsoft Expression Designer or Blend. I...
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Windows Live Writer CTP
10 June 08 08:08 PM | Laurent Duveau
The CTP of this wonderful blogging tool is now available! Here is a list of new features: Video and Image Publishing Enhancements Upload videos to Soapbox Image cropping and tilting Additional border styles (reflection!) Support for LightBox and other...
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Useful free online string manipulation tools
13 May 08 06:11 PM | Laurent Duveau
www.string-functions.com is a set of online string manipulation tools. Not that it is complex to do by yourself but it can be useful sometimes for quick-edit-stuff. Direct links to services: Reverse A String Calculate String Length Count The Occurrences...
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[Cool Tool] FTP Live
28 April 08 07:35 PM | Laurent Duveau
This is not a "must have" but a "good to know", as it can be pretty useful. Have you ever been is a situation where you have to upload files to an FTP server but have no access because FTP ports are disable (at work for example) ?...
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[Cool Tool] Meta Tag Analyzer
06 April 08 11:13 AM | Laurent Duveau
Meta Tag Analyzer is a free online tool by SubmitExpress that analyze your web site and tells you how good/relevant your title and description are in relation to your content and chosen keywords. Try Meta Tag Analyzer: http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer...
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[Cool Tool] PhotoZoom
23 March 08 10:14 PM | Laurent Duveau
PhotoZoom is an experimental site developed at Microsoft, running on the Microsoft Live Labs Incubation Platform. It uses the Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight 2 to create photo albums that you can zoom an pan. This online app take care of processing...
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[Cool Tool] Browsershots
16 March 08 06:13 PM | Laurent Duveau
Browsershots is a free online tool that makes screenshots of your web site in different browsers/versions on multiple platforms (Win, Mac, Linux). Use it to test the look of your web sites : http://browsershots.org/ Set your choices then come back later...
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[Cool Tool] Zeta Resource Editor
03 March 08 10:26 AM | Laurent Duveau
Following my Resource Refactoring Tool post, Uwe pointed me to Zeta Resource Editor . This very nice free win app allows you to easily edit your resx files, each language in the same row! Download link: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ZetaResourceEditor...
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[Cool Tool] VS Resource Refactoring Tool
02 March 08 11:46 AM | Laurent Duveau
The recently opened Visual Studio Gallery contains some free hidden Microsoft gems, Resource Refactoring Tool is one of them. Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files. It works...
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[Cool Tool] Search Engine helpful searches
29 February 08 09:27 PM | Laurent Duveau
Did you know that Google provides answers to special searches ? I have just discovered this one: Time: But you also have: Calculator:   Currency conversion:   Units conversion:   Weather: You can find the whole list here . Note: Some of...
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Visual Studio Gallery
29 February 08 06:19 PM | Laurent Duveau
Microsoft has just released a new website for .NET developers : the Visual Studio Gallery. http://visualstudiogallery.com You can browse and download existing products & extensions for Visual Studio (any version). In the web category you will find...
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Insert code from Visual Studio to Live Writer
16 November 07 06:54 PM | Laurent Duveau
Just a simple useful Live Writer plug-in I wanted to talk about: Paste from Visual Studio "Easily transfer syntax highlighted source code from Visual Studio to elegant HTML in Windows Live Writer. Copy from Visual Studio and insert directly to Windows...
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Cool tool: Find As You Type for IE
03 November 07 06:01 PM | Laurent Duveau
Some times ago I blogged about InlineSearch , a really cool add-in for IE to get the ctrl+F just like Firefox. Unfortunately it seems to be down now, but I found another one, Find As You Type for Internet Explorer which is great also, and it is free.
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Windows Live Translator
09 October 07 11:26 PM | Laurent Duveau
A new Live Service is available since September: Live Translator. http://translator.live.com The first thing I noticed is the translation is far from perfect (Okay it is beta...). I like the web page translator : you can change the layout (side by side...
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Web Deployment Projects and Visual Studio 2008
12 September 07 11:39 PM | Laurent Duveau
I have been working a lot with Web Deployment Projects and even wrote articles on it, so I wanted to have a look at what comes with VS2008. It appears that unlike what I thought, Web Deployment Projects will not be part of VS2008. According to the Web...
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