Handy sites for handy tools

I started this thread after reading the joy of many a user because of MZTools. I thought maybe we could compose a list of easy to use tools, be it open source or not.

So here's the first :

MZ Tools (http://www.mztools.com)

Do or do not
There is no try

....and of course you have to have the ALLAPI.NET tools, the APIGuide and the APIToolShed (although I think they may have changed the name...)

Also, you might mention MSDN.

"I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!" - Edmund Blackadder

I believe our friend Carlos is bringing out MZ-Tools 3.0 soon (September). I know I'm looking forward to it!


<font color=blue> :: grin-r :: </font color=blue>

Please explain what this tool is/does when you post (if anybody is going to post more tools)

Here is a link to the free Inno install and setup for VB. Inno (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm)

Here is a link to Bit-Arts Fusion. It allows all the required runtime files
to be 'merged' into the main EXE. It is not free, but could be well worth
the money. Bit-Arts Fusion (http://www.bit-arts.com/fusion.html)

Wow, thanks for the Link, great vb tool.

Yoda,

I love this tool - thanks. I didn't know you could still put line numbers into basic code!

BR.

Yeah! I'll say. Great for documentation. I love the "clear immediate window" function and the "reload files" and.......images/icons/smile.gif

Has anyone had a shot at using MZ-Tools 3.0?


<font color=blue> :: grin-r :: </font color=blue>

I think the <font color=blue>Fusion</font color=blue> app is incredible. This will save me a lot of time !

<font color=green>Do or do not
There is no try</font color=green>

does someone know a tool to print the coded lines in vb colors not all black? i was supposed to try to build one but got no free time : (

I'll be among the best soon, very soon!!!

Try checking planetsourcecode.com This is a fairly common submission there...

"I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!" - Edmund Blackadder

i found a nice one printing a document with table of content, front page.....
look this

http://www.planetsourcecode.com/xq/ASP/txtCodeId.23866/lngWId.1/qx/vb/scripts/ShowCode.htm

the only thing i don't like is that the keyword aren't in color...


I'll be among the best soon, very soon!!!

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^^ I get that when I try to go to Planetsourcecode... I didn't do anything that could get me banned. I blurred out my IP addy also.

i didn't do anything to arm this site, and i realy don't understand why you are sending me this?

I'll be among the best soon, very soon!!!

don't worry Laurent he is not directing this at you, it is a message he has recieved

this message got me worried. i just love this site so i would never do anything wrong...

I'll be among the best soon, very soon!!!

Laurent,

He got the message from the PlanetSourceCode site, not from this one !

Besides, everyone loves this site !

<font color=green>Do or do not
There is no try</font color=green>

Yeah I am currently beta testing it. it should be released in October sometime.

There are some very nice new features. In my opinion the best of these are the generalised code template insertion, conversion of text to upper or lower case and a sort procedures function. This is wonderful for laying your code out in order to make finding stuff easier.

Sorry, Laurent. I should've made myself clearer. images/icons/smile.gif

Sorry if I had you worried.

I downloaded the MZTools and incorporated within my VB application, but whenever I restart the computer and open the VB application, I got this message saying "the MZTools can not be loaded" so I have to unzip the MZTools.zip and register the DLL again, then it works. Is there anyway to prevent from this happening again?

That sounds like a bug that Carlos (the creator of MZ-Tools) would probably want to know about. What version of MZ-Tools do you have and what's your operating system?

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I'm not sure the version no, but I just downloaded couple days ago and I run on WIN 2000 Pro.

ok, i just had a look at the web site and my guess is that you got version 2. version 3 is going to get released soon so hopefully the problem will have been fixed (given that it's in mztools)

<font color=blue> :: grin-r :: </font color=blue>

Yes, you're right, I had MZTools Ver 2. when will this ver 3 release?

cheers

according to the web site....october. i've got a beta version of mztools 3 if you're really keen but i would wait. the october version should have had some (if there were any) of the bugs ironed out.

<font color=blue> :: grin-r :: </font color=blue>

I better wait then, pls buzz me if it's been released

cheers

Some Beta tools I have developed that you might be interested in are:
MCL Hotkey an OCX that allows you to implement a system wide hotkey by dropping the control on your form and setting some properties.
Imagemap VB is a control that implements the functionality of an HTML client side image map allowing you to define multiple regions (circular,rectangular or polygonal) on an image and recieve CLICK and MOUSEOVER events for each region.
EventCtl - a control which adds a number of new properties and events to enhance the standard VB form including properties to control the minimum and maximum size and position a form can be drag resized to.
EventVB - a DLL which implements an object oriented (and programmer firendly) wrapper for the Win32 API.

All of these are available for free download at The Merrion Computing Downloads page (http://www.merrioncomputing.com/Download/index.htm)

Totally brilliant

Have you seen the stuff at SysInternals (http://www.sysinternals.com)? That's some powerful free tools!

Ok, maybe this site doesn't offer tools, but boy is it a useful site!
Every ADO connection string you could wish for! (http://www.able-consulting.com/ADO_Conn.htm) :eek:

Timbo

wow, thats really sweet! Solve one of my probs already

ei
"connecting to a remote computer with sqlserver"

beauty!

Regan

Fed up of your mailbox clogging with SPAM :mad: ?

http://www.fr1.cyberabuse.org/

These guys will help you (feel like you can) hit back! :)

I ran across anextremely useful utility earlier today

It's at
VB City Pretty Print (http://www.vbcity.com/page.asp?p=pcp_index)

Extremely useful in keeping track of your control structures. It graphically indicates the nesting within your code.

Submitted by shanebourke, page of links to many handy VB tools.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Visual_Basic/Add-Ins/

This has gotta be a joke.... A VB sockets library, wrapping things like the dreaded SOCKS4 and 5, DNS, TCP/IP Winsock replacements... etc etc etc. No dependancies (ie MSWINSCK.OCX), and complete source code. Where has this been hiding all my life!?

http://www.compiled.org/showcontent.php?cid=117

Hi all,

I just wanted to share some good editing tools with you that I found on the internet to help you in making your games.

Terragen: This is a great tool for making beautiful 3d landscapes quickly. Terragen Homepage (http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/)

OpenFX: This is a great tool for making 3d models (and open source WOOHOO!!) OpenFX Homepage (http://www.openfx.org)

Anim8or: Not as good as OpenFX, but a little easier to use.
Anim8or Homepage (http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html)

Universe: A good little program for making a star field for your 3d background. Universe Homepage (http://www.diardsoftware.com/)

I hope you can find some uses for these programs.

As payment for this information, maybe someone can help me find a good plant/tree model designer? :rolleyes:

This site:
http://www.di-mgt.com.au/crypto.html
Has some freeware DLLs for strong encryption methods like BLOWFISH, DES, SHA-256 etc.

(found by rpk2006)

For those who don't know,
Visit http://www.dimastr.com and download a utility called OutlookSpy...A MUST utility for every MAPI Developer

Also visit http://www.cdolive.com/cdo10.htm..a very good site for CDO developers

Cheers

.....I remembered that the Total Visual CodeTools marketing materials mentioned something about an ADO/DAO record set builder, so I checked it out. After pointing the builder at a DSN for the database and selecting the table I wanted to access, I had VB code ready to paste into my button-click event. The code would make the connection and debug.print the contents of the fields. From this, I was able to use the debug.print examples to populate text boxes on my form with the output of the record set. With the code generated by the builder, I had a prototype of my application built in about 30 minutes.

The whole point of the toolset is to easily enable code standards. The tools include a procedure/function builder that allows users to make sure that every procedure or function they create will contain the same standard comment block and error-handling code. One interesting tool is the Property Procedure Builder. It creates the Set, Let, and Get statements in a standard way using the variable names you give it.

Nice App Check it out (http://www.fmsinc.com/products/codetools/index.html)

For those who want to print your C++ code in color. Which may be useful if you want to read your code clearly while studying it.

I suggest CPPrint, which is a freeware. To have a full version of it all you have to do is download the program, email the author, tell him how you like the program and ask him where you can buy the program. Believe me, after doing that, he'll reply, thanks you and tell you that the program is now free and he'll also attach you a full version of it (the password and the unlock key).

Enjoy

here is the author's website
http://xirx.com/cpprint/cpprint.html

Query Express (http://www.albahari.com/queryexpress.html)

A very handy query tool. Includes most of the features of SQL Server Query Analyzer, including object explorer, plus, it works with SQL Server, Oracle, or any ODBC Compliant database. I've tested it with Access 97 & 2K, MSDE 2 (SQL Server 2K) MSDE 1 (SQL Server 7) and Oracle 7.3.4 (with Microsoft's Driver)

Download includes c# source and exe.

Hi


In http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837910/en-us you can download a add-in from use the mouse wheel on the VB 6 IDE


http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837910
(the same link in Spanish)