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An extremely simple but surprisingly useful script editor for cmd scripts. Try it out!

(December 10, 2012)

QuickCode is VS2012 compatible

A quick test has shown that QuickCode.NET 2010 is compatible with Visual Studio 2012. All you have to do is change a configuration file to have all your QuickCodes available in VS2012!

(August 25, 2012)

Harvesting Codeplex statistics

New code: how to harvest Codeplex statistics (page views, visits, and downloads) on multiple projects using a VB.NET Console Application.

(June 11, 2012)

New Tool: MOBZHash

A new tool was added to MOBZystems, Home of Tools: MOBZHash. A simple, clean file hashing tool with the added bonus of being able to report duplicate hashes.

(June 1, 2012)

RunNET

A new tool was added to MOBZystems, Home of Tools: RunNET. This open-soure console application runs .NET programs as if they were interpreted scripts. No executable is created on disk. Now you can use the power of the .NET Framework in day to day task automation!

(September 21, 2011)

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Welcome to MOBZystems, Home of Tools!

Here, you'll find a selection of free developer tools, articles about software development issues, and code you can use any way you please.

Tools

Visit the tools section for a list of open source tools and utilities that make up the indispensible MOBZuite™ suite of developers tools. Each of these tools is lightweight, easy to use, and *FREE*. All source code is available on CodePlex.

MOBZHunt - Hard disks never seem big enough. Even that huge new disk fills up in no-time. You need some space - but where do you start? With MOBZHunt, hunting down disk hogs is a snap!
MOBZoom - A simple yet powerful zoom tool that supports saving captured images in a host of formats, including Windows icon files.
MOBZPing - Displays the availability and response time of a series of hosts graphically. Very useful for tracking down connection problems, or simply monitoring a number of hosts simultaneously.
MOBZRuler - Very simple but surprisingly useful tool that displays a grid on screen. Great for lining up screen elements, measuring screen distances etc.
MOBZync - Inspect the differences in the contents of two folders at a glance, and optionally synchronize in one or both directions.
QuickCode.NET 2010 - The premier productivity boosting add-in for Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2012. A complete rewrite of QuickCode.NET 2005, QuickCode.NET 2010 is now freeware. It features an all-new user interface and much-improved ease of use.
RegFind - Employ the full power of the .NET framework's regular expression engine to search for patterns in text files and directories
RegName - A small yet flexible regular expression based file rename tool. Supports both a graphical and a command-line interface.
See Through Windows - Press a hotkey to make the current window transparent, allowing you to see through it! Also: press hotkeys to minimize/maximize the current window, or to send it to another monitor.
Shell Runner - A command shell tool for testing and running batch files, with a host of other options: timestamping output, saving error and output log files, marking error output in red, etc.
RunNET - Use .NET languages for scripting! Run .NET code (C#, VB.NET or whatever is installed on your machine) as a console application wihout generating an executable file on disk.
MOBZHash - MOBZHash is a command line tool to display MD5 and SHA hashes for files. It can also report files with identical hashes, which is useful in tracking down likely duplicates.
MOBZcript - A simple editor for cmd scripts. Press F5 to save and run your script using the regular cmd interpreter.

Of course, you can also go directly to the download section.

Code

See the code section for code samples and articles:

How To Kill a Process Tree - How to terminate a process and all processes started by that process.
Console Process - A Console Process class for .NET 2.0 and 3.5. Runs console processes with a host of other options, such as an automatic timeout, 'near real-time' redirected I/O, etc.
Bug in .NET Command Line Arguments - Read about an insidious little bug in Environment.GetCommandLineArgs and how to get around it.
Events in C# and VB.NET - A look at the different ways in which C# and VB.NET handle event declarations - and how QuickCode.NET can help.
Text, Encodings, and .NET - How and when to use a text encoding when reading and writing text files in .NET.
Auto-Detecting Text Encoding - How to use the built-in Encoding.GetEncodings collection to detect the encoding of text files.
Transparent State Images in Tree Views - State images in tree view controls are second class citizens, because transparency is not supported. Here's how to get around that.
Using constants for table and column names - How to generate a VB.NET source file with constants for database table and column names.
A .NET Snippet Compiler - A class that compiles and runs code snippets
Codeplex Statistics - Aggregating Codeplex statistics using VB.NET

Blog

And yes, there's a blog, too.