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Been looking for ever for a tool that could replace our current Excle-sheet, that looks like:
Customer Service Environment Host Comment
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ACME FancyService Prod server01 Uses SQL Server xyz
1000+ entries
with a simple 'filter combobox' on each column.
We use this in combination with a lot of other documents to handle support and release management for our customers.
It works 'kindof', but is a pain to maintain.
What I would need (and I imagine other SW vendors that lease/rent out their software like us) is a tool to:
* keep track of customers (Either a Company/Subsidiary combo or simply 'customer' with basic info)
* installed software (location, version etc)
* searchable
Scanned through a number of CRM/CMS sites but haven't found anything that would fit the bill. They have so many features so maybe I can't see the forest through the trees.
I know I could always write it myself, but hoping anyone here have heard of such a tool instead.
This forum is for Free Tools, but I would be grateful for any pointers to free or non free tools.
Regards/
Michael Hulthin
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What you're looking for sounds useful, I'd like to have that for my own work.
However, as it says up top, this forum is for discussing and recommending Free tools. Not really for Does anybody know questions. A lot of people post those kinds of questions in the Lounge. Give it a shot.
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Introduction
Surfing the Internet I often come across some interesting tools, services, web sites and I bookmarked these pages. Yesterday I recognized that my list is run out and I was starting clean him. Not everything were good but most of them I left and categorized.
Background
Especially for Code Project and for his readers I've prepared list of 12 usefull and free tools for developers and I hope you will appreciate them. They will save your time and money. All this tools are from different categories but I hope you'll find at least one useful for you.
1. DotNetNuke Community Edition
Vendor name: DotNetNuke;
Website: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Products/Community-Edition.aspx
Description: Open source website/CMS platform for Microsoft .NET. The system is a full featured web CMS and application development framework.
2. Entity Developer Express
Vendor name: Devart;
Website: http://www.devart.com/entitydeveloper
Description: Entity Developer is a free powerful modeling and code generation tool for ADO.NET Entity Framework, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL. You can use Model-First and Database-First approaches to design your model and generate C# or Visual Basic .NET code for it. It introduces new approaches for designing ORM models, boosts productivity, and facilitates the development of database applications.
3. CodeLobster PHP Editor
Vendor name: Code Lobster;
Website: http://www.codelobster.com/
Description: Multifunctional portable Free IDE for building PHP websites. CoreLobster PHP Editor comes with all standard features PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript highlighting, advanced PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript autocomplete, Powerful PHP debugger, SQL autocomplete and much more.
4. TX Text Control Express
Vendor name: Text Control;
Website: http://www.textcontrol.com/en_US/sites/tx-text-control-express/
Description: Enhanced Rich Text Box for VB.NET and C#
5. OpenAccess ORM Free Edition
Vendor name: Telerik;
Website: http://www.telerik.com/products/orm/free.aspx
Description: Telerik OpenAccess Free Edition is a free tool that allows seamlessly create database independent code by minimazing Create, Read, Update, Delete operations. Using visual editor you can build your domain model and take full control of the mapping process.
6. CodeCompare
Vendor name: Devart;
Website: http://www.devart.com/codecompare/
Description: CodeCompare is a freeware Windows tool for visual file comparison and merge. You can seamlessly compare binary file and directories, ignore lines, highlight syntax, highlight diffs down to the level of charecters or words. It goes as a standalone application and as a Visual Studio add-in.
7. DevPlanner
Vendor name: SmartBear Software;
Website: http://smartbear.com/products/free-tools/devplanner/
Description: Free-to-use Software Development Project Management Tool allows developers to view progress and deadlines, and differences between estimated and actual time spent on projects.
8. dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3
Vendor name: dynaTrace;
Website: http://ajax.dynatrace.com/ajax/en/
Description: ynaTrace AJAX Edition 3 makes building lightning fast Web 2.0 applications easy. Speed your page load times, optimize rendering, tune DOM execution, and compare to competition. Even integrate with Selenium, Watir or QTP to begin automating your performance tests. It's free, it's easy and it's now for both Firefox and IE.
9. Git
Vendor name: Community;
Website: http://git-scm.com/
Description: Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
10. Firebug
Vendor name: Community;
Website: http://getfirebug.com/
Description: With Firebug you can: Pinpoint an element in a webpage with ease and precision. Send messages to the console direct from your webpage through Javascript. Measure your Javascript performance in the Console's Profiler. Tweak and position HTML elements with CSS and the Layout panels. Look at detailed measurements of your site's network activity. Step-by-step interactive debugging in a visual environment.
11. JustDecompile
Vendor name: Telerik;
Website: http://www.telerik.com/products/decompiling.aspx
Description: JustDecompile is a free developer productivity tool designed to enable easy .NET assembly browsing and decompiling. Just with the simple click of a button JustDecompile lets you effortlessly explore and analyze compiled .NET assemblies and decompiling code.
12. CodeRush Xpress
Vendor name: Developer Express;
Website: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/CodeRushX/
Description: Code navigation, selection, and refactoring tool for Visual Studio 2008/2010. Includes intelligent code navigation, selection and declaration features with over 50 refactorings for VB and C# developers. Surfing the Internet I often come across some interesting tools, services, web sites and I bookmarked these pages. Yesterday I recognized that my list is run out and I was starting clean him. Not everything were good but most of them I left and categorized. Especially for Code Project and for his readers I prepared list of 12 usefull and free tools for developers and I hope you will appreciate them. They will save your time and money. All this tools are from different categories but I hope you'll find at least one useful for you. <code>
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I would amend the following:
Sergii852 wrote: 3. CodeLobster PHP Editor
3. CodeLobster PHP Editor Netbeans IDE PHP Edition
It works beautifully, and has a large community addin support surface. It also leads me to my other amendment:
Sergii852 wrote: 9. Git
9. Git Mercurial
Better crossplatform support (read: doesn't suck on Windows), and is fully supported in Netbeans. Also has (imho) a better online repository:
bitbucket vs github
Otherwise, I'm grabbing a few of those! Thanks!
Don't forget to rate my post if it helped! 
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Nice list.
But then that is what the forum is for 
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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If you need to download a complete web to your computer you can use this software: HTTrack[^]. it is simple, it works and it can be portable...
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Hey Joan, I think this tool has already been mentioned in this forum before.
Regards,
Vijay.
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Is that true?  I did not know that... again...
I've searched for that a little and I've not found it but anyway...
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Link or it never happened.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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and I guess it will work perfectly, but only if you have firefox that it is not my case, anyway thank you for giving that name, who knows if I'll fall in the Firefox community someday and then it will be great knowing that!
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On the forum users' request I decided to provide all Devart's free product list.
1. SQL Complete Express - free SSMS add-in that offers intellisense of T-SQL code. In the download page you will find both editions: Express and Standard. Express is a free one.
http://www.devart.com/dbforge/sql/sqlcomplete[^]
2. Studio for MySQL Express - free MySQL GUI tool comprising many useful tools for database administration and development. You will find three editions on the web site. dbForge Studio for MySQL Express is a free one.
http://www.devart.com/dbforge/mysql/studio/[^]
3. CodeCompare - free Visual Studio add-in and standalone application for file, folders, source code comparison and merge.
http://www.devart.com/codecompare/[^]
4. Entity Developer is a powerful modeling and code generation tool for ADO.NET Entity Framework, LinqConnect, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL. also has a free edition. The Express Edition does not allow customization of code templates and is limited to 10 entities in the project.
http://www.devart.com/entitydeveloper/[^]
5. LinqConnect is a fast and easy-to-use ORM solution, developed closely to the Microsoft LINQ to SQL technology, and supporting SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. The free Express Edition is a free limited version of LinqConnect. The Express Edition does not allow customization of code templates and is limited to 10 entities in the project. It supports Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
http://www.devart.com/linqconnect[^]
6. dbForge Data Compare for Oracle - tool for data comparison and synchronization.
Express is a free software that provides basic functionality to compare and synchronize data in Oracle databases.
http://www.devart.com/dbforge/oracle/[^]
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Thanks for the links, useful.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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I'd like to share with you our free T4-Editor. It's a powerful VS add-in for editing templates with code outlining, intellisense, syntax highlighting. With Devart T4-Editor creating T4 templates became easy and fast task.
http://www.devart.com/t4-editor/[^]
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As you have said it's free, then I salute you and say nay to those who would consider this spam. Well done.
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If it wasn't a free tool I wouldn't have published this suggestion.
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Errm, I know. That's why I said well done.
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Looks like a good tool.
I noticed there are other products on your website. Can you also share which of those are free as well? It might just be beneficial for the folks here.
Do you think requirements should be met? Who told you so.SAKryukov
Please see my solution.SAKryukov
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For sure. Take a look at subject "Devart Free Tools"
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Good man.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Tested in W7-64 only: never had a problem of a stuck-open TaskBar with XP or Vista.
Bedeviled by Windows #whatever~7 locking your TaskBar open, and ignoring your 'Auto-hide' = 'checked' setting ? I know I was. At random, perhaps every hour or so, I have been having to open the Task Manager, kill Explorer.exe, and then re-launch Explorer.
This strange little program puts a stop to that[^]
I say 'strange,' because it comes as a simple '.exe' file, you run it, and ... it runs in the TaskBar ... well, most of the time ... in W7-64- ... sometimes it seems to disappear. Hint: when you exit the Preferences window, hit the Close button on the Form, do not click the 'Exit button.
But, when He Hid ... He was very, very Hid: it will indeed hide your TaskBar, but it will not restore your TaskBar to "normal behavior:" but, I would rather hit Alt-T than open the #%%!0* Task Mananger and kill, and re-launch, Explorer again !
When it's running you use Alt-T to toggle the TaskBar visibility, or Control-Shift-T to open its preferences windows. You can select to have it opened when you boot.
best, Bill
p.s. Be assured I have examined every possible cause for the Win7 TaskBar sticking open from unopened Action Center messages, to looking for Malware, to examining every running process in the TaskBar. I believe this is a bug in Win 7.
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of
meaning." C.S. Lewis
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BillWoodruff wrote: I believe this is a bug in Win 7.
Inherited from Vista. The dreaded V does it to me intermittently - not often enough to provoke me into hunting it down, but enough to really p*** me off when I've got something fullscreen on the primary monitor.  Just figured out why I tend to run fullscreen stuff on the secondary monitor (above the primary)... Need more caffeine...
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Funny, on my wife's laptop, running win7 64bit, the taskbar continually wants to HIDE and she complains about her missing taskbar. The "Auto-hide" checkbox becomes mysteriously checked.
Weird.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
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Nice find, although I get finicky about the task bar.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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IcoFx
IcoFx is a free icon editor. I'm sure you could use Photoshop or something, but with IcoFx you can put multiple icon sizes. It lets you create both icons for Windows and Macintosh OS X. Click the link above to learn more.
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