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Updated Filtered Debug Viewer tool posted

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:24:11 +0000

It’s been sat on the drive for ages so I thought I may as well let it go live. Check out the original post for the download link. If you have any issues let me know.

Small tool released – DeskMenu.NET

adam — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:44:54 +0000

I don’t agree on Microsoft’s convention of hiding my desktop icons in order to make my PC look easier to use (or whatever their reasons!). I have shortcuts to perhaps 15-20 frequently used applications and another half a dozen or so on the Quick Launch toolbar next to the start menu.

During my working day I find that the most important items are never too far away. Back in the days of Windows 95, I was a convert to a small ‘Powertool’ that went by the name of ‘DeskMenu’. The idea was simple – add an icon to the System Tray that when clicked would present the set of Desktop icons as selectable items. This worked great up until Windows XP where it became outdated by not displaying the alpha channel of icons. As an aside, it also didn’t support folders that made it a bit more limiting. To the rescue was Microsoft with their new ‘Desktop’ toolbar which is/was a great idea! Shame is that even though I’ve persevered with it for a couple of years (more fool me!) it highlighted an extremely annoying bug that wasn’t going to be fixed any time soon. So this evening I’ve written a very simple utility that provides me with the functionality I’d want. Feel free to download/try/keep/reject it as you see fit. As you can probably guess it’s a .NET application (V2.0 Framework required) so isn’t the lightest utility around!

Download: DeskMenu.NET

Filtered Debug Viewer tech tool released

adam — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:42:57 +0000

A while back I mentioned a small tool I was working on but somehow time and attention got the better of me! I’ve now dusted off the code and shipped V1.0! It’s a small AddIn for Visual Studio 2005 that allows the user to use multiple debug output windows each with a custom filter. As I’ve not spent too much time of release readiness, if you have a problem please drop me an e-mail! Happy Debugging!!

Download: Filtered Debug Viewer

WinKey

adam — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00:37 +0000

A small utility that adds an icon to your System Tray to control the Windows key on your keyboard.

Back in the day I used to play a lot of Unreal Tournament and I frequently hit the Windows key whilst in the heat of a tense battle. This caused the game to minimise which always led to my [untimely of course] death! I decided this had to be prevented so I wrote this utility to do just that.

Download: Winkey V1.1