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A simple tool to find unused subs, functions and variables in your ASP code.

What are the security and performance proven practices for .NET applications? You can use Guidance Explorer to find out. Guidance Explorer is a tool to help you find and use relevant patterns & practices guidance.

Here is a tool to help you build your NHibernate ORM applications.

SSWI is a Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6 Web Interface. It provides remote access to all the features of Visual Source Safe without the need to install software on the end user PC. SSWI is a fully web based system, that will work on any PC or MAC (OSX) with IE6+, Firefox or Safari and the Java runtime SSWI allows the user to do check-out, recursive check-out's, check-in's and all the other Visual Source Safe functions remotely, from any location in the world, making it the ideal companion for remote workers, professional software developers or large development teams.

Find out how to use Expression, Microsoft's new XAML design tool, to build advanced user interfaces that incorporate 3D effects and inheritable control styling—and still interact seamlessly with your Visual Studio projects.

Stress testing involves running tests under conditions of reduced machine or system resources. To reduce these resources for testing, you can run a tool called a stressor. This month we cover such a tool: EatMem.

JIT compilation has its advantages, but it has its drawbacks, too. NGen may help to improve the performance of your applications. Surupa Biswas shows you why and when.

A C#, C++, Delphi, and Java trace framework and a trace viewer: Tail, outputDebugString, event log, and with Log4J, Log4Net, and Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) support. This comes with full support for Pocket PC development.

An article on a performance testing tool to test an application against its performance.

RC Converter by DudeLabs is the first automated solution for converting ATL and MFC resources to Windows Form resources in .NET. It can generate resource code in C#, VB.NET for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 and in C++/CLI for Visual Studio 2005 only.