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I used to do a lot of work in C# but recently I got into a new role as a VB.NET developer. When I was doing C# I got to really like CodeMaid as an auto-formatting tool. Is there a tool like it for VB.NET (since CodeMaid doesn't support VB.NET)? I haven't been able to find anything in my searches (that was free anyways...).
I heard your plea.. how about we add support for VB to CodeMaid? :)
VB support is now available in beta testing here: https://bitbucket.org/s_cadwallader/codemaid/downloads/CodeMaid_v0.5.7.4_BETA.vsix
Give it a spin and if you see issues or have suggestions shoot a message to codemaid on gmail.
I'd suggest trying ReSharper. It supports almost any language you can use in visual studio. It may not be free, but you should give the trial a shot.
For quick 'auto-formatting' of text you can select all text in your file and use this shortcut:
Ctrl + K, Ctrl + F
to auto-format based on your Visual Studio formatting guidelines.
VB.NET forces most of the formatting you would have to do in C#, i.e. the code gets formatted automatically. For everything else there is little development effort. You do not need any tools for that.
Source: professional VB.NET developer for 4+ years.
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I am looking for a GUI tool on Mac which allows users to browse contents of a relatively simple SQL database (only 2-3 tables) and which allows them to print selected records in a specific layout on labels.
This database ran previously on MsAccess and we would like to have it as SQL. However, non IT-professionals should easily be able to print those labels.
If anybody knows a tool for this (except filemaker), please let me know.
Thanks a lot,
Philipp
I would suggest OpenOffice for a "mailmerge" like label printing.
If You need a more robust "report" oriented solution You can take a look at jasper reports and ireport both have release for OSx.
http://community.jaspersoft.com/
http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/ireport-designer
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Is anyone familiar with a code analysis tool along the lines of NDepend or JDepend for Powerbuilder?
I'm looking for something that can analyse dependencies and metrics such as SLOC, Cyclomatic Complexity etc. for a large, legacy Powerbuilder application.
The only code analysis tool I know for PB is Visual Expert. I've given it a look some time ago but have never actually used it, so I can't say if it does what the other tools you mention do.
Visual Expert is great. PBL Peeper can do these tasks as well, and it's free... :)
Visual Expert is good, but has some flaws. I tried it to analyze our server side code(EA Server) and found some issues. It's impact analysis feature is good to document a Dependency/Calling Hierarchy in the PB code.
I also tried, [PB code analyzer]:http://www.ecocion.com/pbca-powerbuilder-code-analyzer and it does a good job of documenting PB code.
I am not sure, if they do the metrics you are looking for. I found below links, googling(I didn't try these myself):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_static_code_analysis
http://documentation.microfocus.com/help/index.jsp?topic=%2FGUID.571F6E84.1EE2.4F68.80C7.B1DC863536CB%2FGUID-E418791C-B249-434D-BD5A-A2B570F9FA31.html
Recently I came across this tool called CAST
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAST_Application_Intelligence_Platform
None of the other alleged metrics do any better than SLOC, and some are anti-predictive. Just run wc -l over your source files.
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Are there any free tools providing snippets and syntax checking similar to Refactor in Visual Studio 2003/05/08/10?
#edit: To MSSQL, any version..
Take a look at this:
SSMS Tools
It offers snippets, basic formatting and a bunch of other features.
The only tool I know about is RedGate SQL Refactor. I have tried it a number of times, but I always end up uninstalling because it's not good enough to my liking.
You can try out free SSMS and VS add-in, ApexSQL Complete
ApexSQL Complete provides snippets and syntax checking and a lot of other features (aliases, the Insert procedure parameters automatically option , the Insert full INSERT statement option and so on)
Disclaimer: I work for ApexSQL as a Support Engineer
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Anyone know of any examples that shows COM programming via Lua? Could require a library.
I need to write some external scripts for Photoshop, so wondering if it's possible with Lua.
Have a look at Lua for Windows. It contains LuaCOM. I haven't tried it myself, though.
As gimpf said, take a look at LuaCOM. You can either get it from its official site, which is the latest version (1.4). Unzip it somewhere and take a look at the folder "Demo", which includes examples for:
ADO
Powerpoint
SAPI (Speech API)
WMI
They are more like test cases than examples but you can get the idea.
You can roll your own system using CInvoke and some custom C/C++ code combined with Lua meta-tables.
http://www.nongnu.org/cinvoke/
From experience though I can't recommend this, it is pretty complicated and requires a lot of effort to get it right and make it bulletproof.
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Can anyone recommend a book or a website that explains Internet Explorer Automation using VB.NET? I understand that mshtml and ShDocVw.dll can do this, but I need a resource that will explain it to me. I want to read/write values as well as click buttons.
The only book I have come across so far is .Net Test Automation Recipes. Is this the one for me?
Thanks!
You can take a look at WatiN if you want some source code that goes in depth in terms of automating IE. In fact it may do exactly what you are trying to do.
The only book I am aware of dedicated to this subject at the IE COM level is
the digital Wrox publication Introduction to programming Internet Explorer in C# by Nikit Zykov. Although the examples are in C# the content is just as useful for VB.NET programmers. But as already mentioned you would probably be better off using one of the simpler IE COM wrapper APIs such as WatiN.
Check this article :
Internet Explorer Late Binding Automation
Internet Explorer automation sample code using late binding, without Microsoft.mshtml and shdocvw dependency.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/IELateBindingAutowod.aspx