Thursday, 8 December 2011

My tool belt - Tools

BgInfo: System info on your desktop background. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx

Many of the following are very useful debug tools.

DB Tools:
* VS 2008 and VS 2010, Schema Compare and Data Compare tool.

DB Performance Tools:
SQLDiag - Data collector
PSSDiag - Configure SQLDiag
SQLNexus - Data Reporting tool
PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs)  
Troubleshooting Performance in CRM: Data Tier Part 1 – Capturing the Data

Crm server tools:
* Crm Event Listner
* Crm diagnostic tool for server - CrmDiagTool4. The tool will need to be downloaded separately.
* Crm Log Viewer
* MS CRM Plug-in Debugger. http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/MSCRMPluginDebugger
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2008/05/12/testing-crm-plug-ins.aspx
* View Crm 4.0 hidden privileges
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2009/08/04/viewing-all-crm-privileges-including-hidden-privileges.aspx
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/CrmSecurityReports

Crm 2011 tools:
OData Query Designer

Crm Client Libraries:
XrmServiceToolkit

Crm Client tools:
* Microsoft Dynamics Crm Office Client Diagnostics - For debugging on a client. This tool come with Crm Outlook client and does NOT require a separate installation.
* Crm configuration wizard
* Client tracing

Windows Debugging Tools:
* User Mode Process Dumper
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=4060

* Windows Driver Kit WDK
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463009.aspx

* How to use ADPlus.vbs to troubleshoot "hangs" and "crashes"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350

* IIS Exception monitor

Dev tools:
Productivity Power Tools

Checksums tool:
HashCheck

Screen share tool:
* teamviewer
* netviewer

Presentation tool:
* ZoomIt - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434

Online tools:
* https://github.com/

Disk De-fragmentation tool:
Auslogics Disk Defrag Free
Ref:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheBestVisualStudio2010ProductivityPowerToolsPowerCommandsAndExtensions.aspx

WinDirStat - Shows you how big are each folder
http://windirstat.info/

Assembly reference analysis tool:
Assembly Binding Log Viewer (Fuslogvw.exe)
Orca - Modify MSI file

File compare tools:
KDiff
DiffMerge
WinMerge
BeyondCompare (NOT FREE)

Office:
http://www.libreoffice.org

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