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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)

See Through Windows updated to 1.0.5

See Through Windows was updated to version 1.0.5. The changes:

Option to make windows 'Click-Through' in addition to transparent. A Click-Through window cannot be clicked with the mouse: you click right through it, as it were
Option to keep 'Click-Through' windows on top of all other windows. This is on by default, since it's all too easy to lose a Click-Through window

These new options enable you to select any window and keep it on top of your desktop as a sort of overlay. This could be useful for tracing images in a drawing application, or projecting an image or logo on your screen when making screencasts or screendumps.

Go get it at CodePlex. Available in 32 and 64 bits, as usual.

(August 3, 2011)

See Through Windows updated to 1.0.3

To avoid conflicts when using Windows+Up/Down and Windows+Left/Right, these hotkeys can be turned off. As of Windows 7, they always cause a conflict, so from version 1.0.3 on, See Through Windows uses a new set of hotkeys. In fact, the old ones, only with the Control-key added. So:

Ctrl+Win+Up/Down maximizes/minimizes windows
Ctrl+Win+Left/Right sends windows to the previous/next monitor

Download from CodePlex as usual. Enjoy!

(May 15, 2011)

All source code now on CodePlex

All MOBZystems' source code is now on CodePlex, including See Though Windows, MOBZoom, MOBZRuler, and MOBZync!

We're still contemplating what to do with QuickCode.NET 2010. It's free, but not open source - yet.

(April 26, 2011)

MOBZHunt, RegName, and RegFind on CodePlex

The source code of MOBZHunt, RegName, and RegFind is now also on CodePlex.

(April 25, 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, and 2010. 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.

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

Blog

And yes, there's a blog, too.