Here. I wrote CsvFileTester to explore the ADO.NET/ODBC/JET support for CSV files and I was amazed at how comprehensive the support was. And, since I can never remember the syntax and limitations between one use of Jet expression syntax and the next, I put a bunch of samples into the program itself.

CsvFileTester is a tool inspired by Shawn Wildermuth’s ExcelFileTester, which he wrote ’cuz I kept asking him how to do queries on .xls files. However, because the Excel query language has no where or order by clauses, I gave that up in favor of comma-separated text files.

I wrote CsvFileTester (with Shawn’s help) to explore the ADO.NET/ODBC/JET support for CSV files and I was amazed at how comprehensive the support was. And, since I can never remember the syntax and limitations between one use of Jet expression syntax and the next, I put a bunch of samples in the combobox.

Enjoy.

Here. The VC++ team has a bunch of cool work they need doing and they're looking for candidates. Don't be shy. Apply today! And if http://microsoft.com/jobs is too slow for you, feel free to send your resume and a bottle of Scotch (OK, that last part is optional : ) to Terry Leeper, a friend of mine on the VS team desperate for help: tleeper@microsoft.com.

Here. Simon Steele has posted a most excellent tool for digging through an assembly of .NET types trying to build XML serializers for them. This helps you to figure out which classes are going to succeed at design-time instead of at run-time and shows you what's wrong. Much cooler than my silly command line app. Thanks, Simon!

Here. Regular Expressions seems a popular thing to build a tool around. The Regular looks cool. They all look cool. Why weren't any of these tools around when I started building RegexD?!?

Here. Oh, sure, I built an entire codegen product a number of years ago. Would it have hurt folks to get excited about it then?!? : )

FormatDesigner is an application to experiment with the format strings used to format data in String.Format and various type’s ToString functions.

Click here to launch the application directly (requires the .NET Framework 1.1).

Click here to download the source code.

Enjoy.

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