Productivity hub

Productivity is the key to success. Who can confidently handle the appropriate tools can achieve more and make a more professional impression as well. This overview presents you the tools and source codes that get your job done faster.

What do you need right now?

This guide is organised by problems and offers the right solutions for each topic.

Code protection

SeeUnsharp .NET Obfuscator
 Protects the source code of .NET assemblies from decompilers and curious eyes. Renames types and members or seemingly removes all identifiers, hides and encodes all strings, redirects function calls and supports error analysis using FieldLog.

Logging, crash analysis

FieldLog
 Fast and comprehensive logging tool for .NET applications. Designed for high-performance, storage-efficient, always-on logging and comes with a useful log viewer application.

Globalisation

TxTranslation
 Simple yet powerful translation and localisation library for .NET applications. Supports XAML binding, language fallbacks, count-specific translations, placeholders, and number and time formatting.
Keyboard layout German with special characters
 Based on the layout German (Standard), extending it by additional accented letters for all European languages and commonly used special characters.

Build automation

PowerShell build framework
 Automated, local building of Visual Studio solutions and calling external tools like unit tests, source code commit, obfuscation, digitally signing, file publishing and transfer.
.NET Revision Tool
 Injects the current VCS revision of a working directory in a custom format into a .NET assembly build or just displays it.

IDE optimisation

Visual Studio 2015 configuration
 My personal extension recommendations and prepared settings of text formatting, code clean-up, and UI layout for a productive work environment.
Firefox configuration
 My personal add-on recommendations and configuration scripts for the most customisable web browser.
UacConsole
 Executes single commands at a Windows command prompt with elevated privileges after a UAC confirmation, without starting the entire command prompt as administrator in advance.
Hyper-V Switch
 A simple GUI to enable or disable Hyper-V without uninstallation, allowing the use of other virtualisation solutions.
CassiniSwitch
 Installs and manages versions and platforms of the web development server for Visual Studio.

MVVM (WPF)

ViewModelKit.Fody
 Makes WPF ViewModel classes smart by default. Implements INotifyPropertyChanged and DelegateCommands for auto properties, recognises dependent properties, connects property changed handlers.
ViewModelBase class
 Base class for ViewModels by the MVVM pattern, with several simplifications for derived classes.
ViewCommand pattern
 Describes a method for the MVVM design pattern to control a View from a ViewModel with commands.
DelegateCommand class
 Simplifies commands for ViewModels by the MVVM pattern. Provides an ICommand implementation which relays the Execute and CanExecute method to the specified delegates.

XML processing

EasyXml class
 Simple read and write access to XML documents through XPath expressions. Automatically creates missing XML elements when writing with XPath.

Asynchronous programming

DelayedCall class
 Very easy asynchronous delayed function calls. Typesafe invocation of nearly any method through generic parameters. Delayed calls can be cancelled, pulled forward or repeated later.
TaskHelper class
 Functions to start tasks in the background and synchronise them with the UI thread, as well as to wait for the WPF dispatcher.

UI design

Interactive Farbeimer
 An interactive realistic colour mixer for webdesigners, with a diverse display of colours in the RGB and HSL colour space.

Application settings

SettingsAdapterFactory class
 Generates a dynamic implementation of an interface with properties that binds to a settings store and implements INotifyPropertyChanged.

Console, command line

CommandLineParser class
 Provides methods for reading and accessing of command-line parameters and options.
ConsoleHelper class
 Functions for comfortable input and output in console applications. Includes environment checks, a progress bar, cursor movement, and line wrapping output.

Drag & drop, clipboard

DropExplorer
 Lists all data formats that are available in a drag&drop operation or the clipboard and shows their data contents. This lets you quickly “measure” the drag&drop behaviour of applications if in doubt.
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