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With the aid of few Windows API calls it is easy to read and write the memory of other running processes. By monitorg the memory of such process it is easy to detect where memory locations containin peculiar variables in games (bullets, gold, lives, etc.); as soon as the variable is found it can be overridden with a new value. The functioning of the program is very easy and with it a gamer can obtain the desired amount of these elements.

NDIS Monitor allows to catch and log the exchange of packet data between NDIS miniport drivers and network protocol modules that occurs in kernel space.

You can think of Windows PowerShell as a dramatic upgrade to the old cmd.exe command shell and associated .bat files. Although designed with systems administration tasks in mind, Windows PowerShell has features that also make it ideally suited for lightweight testing tasks. This month, I test Microsoft .NET Framework-based code modules from both the Windows PowerShell command line and lightweight Windows PowerShell scripts.

Full control over addins loaded into VS2002-2005 - for power users or addin developers

Refactor Searcharoo C# search engine code to make it easier to extend, and add ability to index/search Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, etc.

100% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool

Tool for creating MS Visual Studio XML documentation files. These files can be used for Visual Studio Intellisense, and to create help files via tools such as NDoc and SandCastle.

A tool for browsing public and private members in any running .NET application (and a generic InvokeRemote method that wraps the code injection)

A class/utility that converts data-files of various formats to .NET DataSet-compatible XML.

A small utility application to edit string resources inside multiple resource files in parallel.