Compuware DevPartner Profiler Community Edition accelerates software development and improves the quality of your code by pinpointing performance bottlenecks in Visual Studio .NET applications. Whether you're creating new applications using the latest .NET technologies, or are working both with .NET and legacy components such as COM, COM+ or ASP, DevPartner Profiler is the profiler of choice for detailed and accurate timing results.
DevPartner Profiler features:

    * pinpoints performance bottlenecks
    * profiles managed VB .NET, VC++, C#, JScript 7 and unmanaged VC++
    * highly accurate results
    * verify code changes have improved performance
    * tightly integrated to the VS .NET IDE
    * supports Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2002.

Ultimate++ is an attempt to provide the optimal development platform.

By utilizing of new ideas in C++ development, Ultimate++ achieves significant reduction of code complexity for most applications when compared to other development platforms.

Ultimate++ based application sources tend to be significantly shorter (often more than 50%) than sources of equivalent applications developed using any other C++ platforms (see here and here).

Ultimate++ consists of:
1. Set of cross-platform Windows/Posix-X11 libraries ("packages")
2. TheIDE development environment, featuring
    Full featured source editor
    Package management system
    Visual debugger
    BLITZ build technology speeding up GCC builds of large projects up to 4 times,
    Layout designer for designing dialog layouts
    Image designer for designing graphical elements of application

The Indy Project is an Open Source group that maintains several active projects that grew out of the original Indy.Sockets project.

Indy.Sockets

Indy.Sockets is an open source socket library that supports clients, servers, TCP, UDP, raw sockets, as well as over 100 higher level protocols such as SMTP, POP3, NNTP, HTTP, and many more. Indy.Sockets is available for C#, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic.NET, any .NET language, and Kylix. Indy.Sockets FCL build is a managed assembly and is compatible with the Microsoft .NET framework, and Mono.


Bubelen

Bubelen is a system for building and maintaining bubbles. A bubble is a piece of code for testing, developing, profiling, debugging, and stress testing. Bubbles are similar to boxes which are used in box testing (sometimes also referred to as unit testing), however bubbles are not designed with the only goal being testing.
Indy.Data

Indy.Data is a new project that provides a very unique data access layer in C# for ADO.NET.
Indy Soap

Indy Soap is a Open Source Library for implementing Web Services using Borland environments. IndySoap is not tied to Indy sockets for transport services, though Indy based transport services are included.

PRADO is a component-based and event-driven Web programming framework for PHP 5. PRADO reconceptualizes Web application development in terms of components, events and properties instead of procedures, URLs and query parameters.

Creole is a uniform database access (database abstraction) layer for PHP5/ZE2. It abstracts PHP's native db-specific API to create more portable code while also providing developers with a clean fully object-oriented interface based (loosely) on the API for Java's JDBC.

Ice, the Internet Communications Engine, is middleware for the practical programmer. A high-performance Internet communications platform, Ice includes a wealth of layered services and plug-ins. Ice means simplicity, speed, and power.

Ice is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Commercial licenses are available for customers who wish to use Ice with proprietary products. Please contact sales@zeroc.com for more information.

Ice is currently available for C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic, Python, and PHP, and is supported on various operating systems. Additional operating systems and languages will be supported in future releases. Ice is also available for mobile and embedded devices.

The core of the Struts framework is a flexible control layer based on standard technologies like Java Servlets, JavaBeans, ResourceBundles, and XML, as well as various Jakarta Commons packages. Struts encourages application architectures based on the Model 2 approach, a variation of the classic Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm.

Visual Studio Express is free for one year
Until November 7, 2006, we are promotionally discounting the downloadable versions of Express to free. This doesn't mean that the product turns off after a year, but rather that as long as you download the product before November 7, 2006, you can get it for free and you can use it forever.
Source : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost....126606&SiteID=1

If you are programming in Visual Basic 6.0 and planning to move to Visual Basic .NET, then the Visual Basic 6.0 Code Advisor is for you.

The Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6 is an add-in used to review your code to ensure that it meets predetermined coding standards. The coding standards are based on best practices developed by Microsoft to produce robust and easy-to-maintain code.

]The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer's interface to important elements of the browser infrastructure (such as events, in-page HTTP requests and the DOM). The Yahoo UI Library Controls produce visual, interactive user interface elements on the page with just a few lines of code and an included CSS file. All the components in the Yahoo! User Interface Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

SDCC is a Freeware, retargettable, optimizing ANSI - C compiler that targets the Intel 8051, Maxim 80DS390 and the Zilog Z80 based MCUs. Work is in progress on supporting the Motorola 68HC08 as well as Microchip PIC16 and PIC18 series. The entire source code for the compiler is distributed under GPL.

FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including an error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

Some Fun Features

Logging for web pages

Web developers have suffered with "alert debugging" for centuries. If you enjoy clicking the "Ok" button 40,000 times a day, FireBug is not for you. Otherwise, you'll enjoy having the ability to log messages from JavaScript in your web page directly to the FireBug console. Read this to get the tiny snippet of code you'll need to add to your scripts.

Errors at your fingertips

Nobody likes to see errors in their web pages, but with FireBug you won't mind as much. FireBug adds a little icon to the Firefox status bar which tells you if your page is busted. Open up the FireBug panel and you're looking at the errors that occurred in that page, and only that page. No more digging through the muddy pile of errors in the JavaScript Console window.

Inspectors galore

Elements and styles and events, oh my. There's a lot going on behind the curtain of a web page. FireBug's inspectors let you stroll lazily through the DOM using the familiar hyperlink model of the web. If you see an object reference, you can click it to inspect it.

Command line

If you enjoy "alert debugging" then you probably also enjoy typing "javascript: " urls in the location bar all day. If not, then you'll enjoy using FireBug's JavaScript command line instead.

Ajax Request Spy

If you feel hip every time you fire off an XMLHttpRequest on your Ajax website, FireBug will secure your place amongst the avante garde. The FireBug console can log all Ajax request traffic as it happens, and allows you to inspect the responses.

Live Editing

It's no fun just looking at the DOM. FireBug's inspectors let you edit just about anything you can inspect.

The STLSoft libraries are split into a number of sub-projects, corresponding to their respective technologies/operating-systems. The main project, confusingly also referred to as STLSoft (located at http://stlsoft.org) provides cross-platform, technology/API-neutral classes and functions, within the namespace stlsoft. They also support the other sub-projects:

    * ACESTL (http://acestl.org). The Adaptive Communications Environment is a powerful, cross-platform, networking library. ACESTL makes it more STL-like. Components are defined within the namespace acestl.
    * ATLSTL (http://atlstl.org). The Active Template Library is the leading library for creating COM components, and ATLSTL provides software technologies for assisting in its use. Components are defined within the namespace atlstl.
    * COMSTL (http://comstl.org). The Component Object Model has become the foundational technology for component software development on the Windows platform. COMSTL provides software technologies for manipulating COM interfaces and APIs. Components are defined within the namespace comstl.
    * .netSTL (http://dotnetstl.org). The .NET platform is rapidly gaining popularity, and C++.NET is the powerhouse language of the .NET platform. .netSTL enhances the use of Managed C++ by applying STL techniques to the .NET framework. Components are defined within the namespace dotnetstl.
    * InetSTL (http://inetstl.org). The Internet is the medium of the new millenium, and Internet programming is an important part of many modern C++ programmers' daily lives. InetSTL enhances the use of C++ for Internet Programming by applying STL techniques to Internet APIs. Components are defined within the namespace inetstl.
    * MFCSTL (http://mfcstl.org). Even if it's showing its age a bit, the Microsoft Foundation Classes are still a widely used technology for the development of user interface applications and components on the Windows platform. MFCSTL provides software technologies for manipulating MFC classes and APIs. Components are defined within the namespace mfcstl.
    * UNIXSTL (http://unixstl.org) Like its stablemate WinSTL, UNIXSTL provides a number of libraries for programming with today's other main operating system. Components are defined within the namespace unixstl.
    * WinSTL (http://winstl.org). Microsoft Windows is the pre-eminent desktop platform of our age: whether you love it or hate it, you'll doubtless end up programming on it! WinSTL provides a number of libraries for standardising the dizzying array of different APIs, simplifying your work considerably. Components are defined within the namespace winstl.

The free PayPal ASP.Net Software Developer Kit (SDK) includes controls for Visual Studio.NET that let you quickly add e-commerce function buttons to any ASP.Net web page.

Choose from buttons including:

    * Buy Now
    * Add-to-cart
    * View Cart
    * Checkout
    * Upload Aggregate Cart
    * Upload Complete Cart
    * Subscription

You'll also enjoy:

    * Sample code written in C#
    * IPN scripts
    * Documentation