Just stumbled across an article on MSDN covering some nice tools helpful in .net development.

• Snippet Compiler – For all of you who like to deploy quick .NET hack without starting up a whole Visual Studio project
• Regulator – RegEx for humans
• NUnit – Unit tests
• NDoc – Code documentation
• and many more

Article found @ MSDN:

Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now – James Avery

Welcome to Starcraft. Your addicted to this game for years but you dont like the BattleNet expirence with all the awesome lag and the crappy interface? Your asking for a way which gives you a warm and cuddly feeling of being at a LAN party?

“Lets play some Starcraft!” Sally said. Problem is she is with the wrong crowd, in a location far far away. The crowd answered lets extend your local network. Sally said: “We cant do that we dont have the technology yet!”

Thats the point where we prove Sally wrong.

We dont want to waste any time for getting all players joined in therefor i’d use Hamachi to establish the VPN connection. (Other VPN solutions will work fine as well. Might need some more attention though)

Hamachi is easy to setup. Download and install. Create a channel with a password on. Spread the word that your VPN is ready and let everybody else connect using the same piece of software.

Next thing to do is to tell Starcraft which network interface to use. By default it would use the primary interface.

Next tool! Next tool!

ForceBindIP does the trick. its a very small command line application (less then 100k) which binds a application to a IP Address of one of the interfaces in your computer. Just download and install it, open the command line and start Starcraft via forcebindip.

ForceBindIP 1.2.3.4 c:\full\path\to\starcraft.exe

(1.2.3.4 – replace this part with the IP Address Hamachi assigned you. You will find it on the top of the Hamachi client window)

Run Starcraft, select local network mode with UDP as protocol. Have fun =)

Tools used:

LogMeIn Hamachi: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2

(Free for non commercial use)

ForceBindIP: http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/

Virtualization is super handy. No matter if you like to virtualize an OS as sandbox to play with or to utilize the full potential your hardware offers by consolidating multiple servers into one physical machine.

I like to write a bit about a tool i’m using for quite some time  i am very happy with.

Sun Virtual Box virtualizes nearly every Operating System currently out there. Starting from Linux Distributions / XP / Vista / Windows 7 up to Windows Server 2003 / 2008 like a charm.

Feature wise were looking at SMP (Up to 32 virtual CPUs)/ 3D support (Direct3D 8 and 9, OpenGL 2.0)

Enough said, go ahead and try it.

Homepage: http://www.virtualbox.org/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox

Just a split second, no even enough time [Error – time not found]. Create time…time to tell what just happened. It is there, What is it? What is next? Spectate