December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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Foreword
“We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire... Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”
—Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) BBC radio broadcast, Feb. 9, 1941
I love my toolbox. I hate wasted time, wasted keystrokes, wasted potential. I’ve worked as a professional developer using Microsoft operating systems of one kind or another for nearly 15 years. As a developer, I’ve always tried to get the most out of my hardware and software, and as I’ve learned new techniques or discovered faster ways to work, I’ve gathered tools for my ever-growing collection. My toolbox is my collection of not only cool utilities, but also best practices as a user and a developer.
I remember the joy of squeezing another 2K out of upper memory on my 386SX. The tool that made it possible? QEMM from Quarterdeck. Didn’t have enough space on my massive 20 MB drive? Stacker gave it new life, if only for a few days. Then Windows 3.1 came along, and with it new tools like Norton Desktop and PKZIP. Windows 95 opened a world of Power Toys and Kernel Toys and WindowBlinds to manipulate my reality. The advent of Visual Basic 6 brought with it tools garnished with lime-green backgrounds and purple buttons, but tools they were and use them I did.
When the .NET Framework came along, I continued to add to my tool belt with gems from the increasingly prolific .NET open source community. Since 2004, I’ve maintained a pretty long list of tools at http://www.hanselman.com/tools/ that I revise each year. ...
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