Thursday, July 09, 2009

CodeRush Xpress

This is a free tool for VS 2008 that's been pretty useful.

CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008 - Mark Miller:
CodeRush Xpress is a powerful developer productivity tool from Dev Express. The product is free, licensed by Microsoft on behalf of all developers working in Visual Studio 2008 in all paid-for product skus (e.g., Standard, Professional, Team System). Note however that CodeRush Xpress will not load in the Express Editions of Visual Studio.

CodeRush Xpress includes features that support common developer tasks

Quick-Kill Multiple Programs with Batch Files

Quick-Kill Multiple Programs with Batch Files - Batch scripts - Lifehacker
The basic trick is to open the Windows Task Manager, find the executable names (like firefox.exe) of the apps you want to kill, then open a simple text editor and add a line for each app, like so:

taskkill /im program.exe