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Any Serial Port is a handy, simple serial port programming language specially designed to simplify the development of RS232 based applications. FEATURES – Capability to log multiple serial ports at the same time. Data logger has the capability to log multiple ports simultaneously so that multiple external serial devices can be logged – Integrated Development […]

Glimpse is an amazing product that allows you to see exactly what’s going on in your web server. Currently, it works for any ASP.NET website and even has specific extensions for specific frameworks like (ASP.NET MVC, etc.). Besides just supporting frameworks such as these out of the box, Glimpse has an architecture that fundamentally supports […]

SignalR is an async signaling library for ASP.NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications SignalR is broken up into a few package on NuGet: SignalR – A meta package that brings in SignalR.Server and SignalR.Js (you should install this) SignalR.Server – Server side components needed to build SignalR endpoints SignalR.Js – Javascript client […]

Here is an example of using MessagingToolkit to send AT commands to Android phone. The Android phone used here is a LG Optimus One P500. Before you can send AT commands, make sure you have the driver installed for you phone. For LG phone, you can use LG Mobile Support Tool. After the driver is […]

One thing with log4net is that whenever there is a configuration issue, no error or exception is thrown and this will make troubleshooting difficult. To check if there is any configuration issue, add the followings in the app.config or web.config Under appSettings, add the following key 1: <appSettings> 2: 3: <add key="log4net.Internal.Debug" value="true"/> 4:  5: […]

Microsoft Point of Service for .NET v1.12 (POS for .NET) is a class library that enables POS developers to apply Microsoft .NET technologies in their products. It provides a simple and consistent interface for .NET Framework applications to interact with POS devices, in compliance with the UnifiedPOS standard (aka UPOS). In addition, it provides windows […]

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is an open-source project built on top of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework. It is a joint effort between Microsoft and the ASP.NET AJAX community that provides a powerful infrastructure to write reusable, customizable and extensible ASP.NET AJAX extenders and controls, as well as a rich array of controls that […]

mini-profiler is a simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET MVC 3. The core here is a single assembly, with an example MVC project to show usage. The profiler includes powerful and comprehensive database profiling capabilities. To enable wrap your database connection with a profiling connection. The built in database profiler support any kind of DbConnection. […]

The Mindscape Web Workbench is a 100% free plugin for Visual Studio 2010 to provide CoffeeScript, Sass and Less editing! This all in one package takes care of all dependencies and adds: Syntax highlighting (all languages) Intellisense (Sass & Less) Automatically generates the required output (e.g. .JS for CoffeeScript, .CSS for Sass) Collapsable code blocks […]

Glimpse is an amazing product that allows you to see exactly what’s going on in your web server. Currently, it works for any ASP.NET website and even has specific extensions for specific frameworks like (ASP.NET MVC, etc.). Besides just supporting frameworks such as these out of the box, Glimpse has an architecture that fundamentally supports […]

You can deploy your database application using Oracle without installing the Oracle client. What you will need is The following libraries from ODP.NET – http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/dotnet/index-085163.html OraOps11w.dll Oracle.DataAccess.dll The following libraries from Instant Client  (either one). Basic Lite should do for most of the cases. (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html Basic – oci.dll, orannzsbb11.dll, and oraociei11.dll Basic Lite – oci.dll, […]

SlimTune is a free profiler and performance analysis/tuning tool for .NET based applications, including C#, VB.NET, and more. It provides many powerful features, such as remote profiling, real time results, multiple plugin-based visualizations, and much more. The source code is available under the terms of the MIT License. SlimTune is currently an early beta, but […]

NHaml (pronounced enamel) is a pure .NET implementation of the popular Rails Haml view engine. From the Haml website: "Haml is a markup language that‘s used to cleanly and simply describe the XHTML of any web document, without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as […]

The MRDS Samples site hosts a variety of code samples for Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (RDS). The purpose of this site is to provide sample code to assist in learning RDS. Placing code here under a Microsoft Public License allows the RDS community to contribute and also provides a way to release code samples without […]

The Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 (Microsoft RDS) is a Windows®-based environment for academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) makes it easier to handle asynchronous input and output, eliminating the conventional complexities of manual threading, locks, and semaphores. Lightweight […]

Json.NET makes working with JSON formatted data in .NET simple. Quickly read and write JSON using LINQ to JSON or serialize your .NET objects with a single method call using the JsonSerializer. Features Flexible JSON serializer to convert .NET objects to JSON and back again LINQ to JSON for reading and writing JSON Writes indented, […]

2  ebooks on parallel programming from Microsoft http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff963553.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg675934.aspx This book describes patterns for parallel programming, with code examples, that use the parallel programming support in the Microsoft® .NET Framework 4. This support is commonly referred to as the Parallel Extensions. You can use the patterns described in this book to improve your application’s performance […]

Google Map Control wraps Google Maps API as ASP.NET custom control. It offers extremely easy and fast way of adding Google Maps API support on your ASP.NET pages. Features ASP.NET AJAX (under UpdatePanel) enabled; Loading by Geocoding or Latitude/Longitude; Google Map Marker(s); set by Geocoding or Latitude/Longitude; simple text for the info window; InfoWindowContent template […]

PolyMon is an open source system monitoring solution that can be used to generate email alerts and analyze historical trends of monitor counters and monitor statuses. It is based on the .NET 2.0 framework and SQL Server 2005. It is simple to use and run but flexible enough for many circumstances. It is made up […]

The Ascend.NET controls are a collection of Windows Forms controls written in C# targeting Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. The intent is to provide controls that are flexible but easy to use that will hold up well under heavy usage.