An alternative to Postman for testing RESTful APIs.
Nice UI and used by Netflix and Cisco among others.
Source: Insomnia REST Client
Category: Useful tool
Visual Studio Extension – Live Sass Compiler
Really simple and useful when working with sass files in Visual Studio Code.
Install from link below.
Click “Watch sass” in lower right corner of Visual Studio Code.
Edit an scss file and save. -> compiles to css file in the same directory. Also works with live browser reload. See output window / extensions / Live Sass Compile for process info.
Log4View – log4net log viewer
Log4View is a powerful and comfortable viewer for log4net, NLog, log4j and log4xx
Log4View Community Edition is free to use.
Log4View comes in three different editions:
- Log4View Professional Edition is the most complete edition of Log4View. It can handle up to 255 different log sources simultaneously, can read input from databases and visualizes log messages as text and chart.
- Log4View Trial Edition has the same features as Log4View Proferssional Edition but expires 30 days after installation. After expiration, the Trial Edition continues working as Community Edition.
- Log4View Community Edition is limited to one log source, has no access to databases and can’t visualize log messages as chart. Log4View Community Edition is free for personal, non commercial use.
Download: Log4View – LOG4VIEW – created by PROSA
Mqueue Viewer – manage MSMQ messages and queues – free software
Microsoft Messaging Queue (MSMQ) viewer.
Source: Mqueue Viewer – manage MSMQ messages and queues for free
mssql-cli: A command-line client for SQL Server with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
A command-line client for SQL Server with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
Source: dbcli/mssql-cli: A command-line client for SQL Server with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
How can I enable Assembly binding logging? – Stack Overflow
I’m getting, “Could not load file or assembly ‘Bla’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.”
Source: registry – How can I enable Assembly binding logging? – Stack Overflow
Web Compiler – Visual Studio Marketplace
The easiest and most powerful way to compile LESS, Scss, Stylus, JSX and CoffeeScript files directly within Visual Studio or through MSBuild.
Simple WCF Test Client
A simple WCF test client is included in Visual Studio.
It resides here for my Visual Studio 2017 installation:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\WcfTestClient.exe
Download Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7 from Official Microsoft Download Center
RDCMan manages multiple remote desktop connections. It is useful for managing server labs or large server farms where you need regular access to each machine such as automated checkin systems and data centers. It is similar to the built-in MMC Remote Desktops snap-in, but more flexible. The RDCMan 2.7 version is a major feature release. New features include: – Virtual machine connect-to-console support – Smart groups – Support for credential encryption with certificates – Windows 8 remote action support – Support for Windows 8, Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
Source: Download Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7 from Official Microsoft Download Center
Batch convert a folder of images from png to jpg
I had a bunch of png images in several subfolders which I wanted to convert into jpg.
I used the command line tool ImageMagick for Windows, which is free and can be downloaded here:
Download @ ImageMagick
This command will convert all images in the folder and its subfolders from png to jpg with quality 65. The converted files will get the same filename but with jpg extension:
for /R %f in (*.png) do ( convert -quality 65 "%f" "%~npf.jpg" )
convert is the ImageMagick command running, for /R is used for looping recursively.
Use this command when done to remove all the source png files:
del *.png /s
This will delete all png files in this folder and all subfolders.