IISAPP.vbs was a nice script that listed the applcation pools running in a box. This information is quite usefull, namely for debugging processes. The command is no longer available in the most recent versions of the OS, bu there is a work around: appcmd.
open a command prompt and run “c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd List WP” and you’ll get a list of running application pools with the corresponding process IDs.
Have fun debugging! 
Being a senior consultant in the Information Worker area, Sharepoint and development are my middle names on a day-by-day basis. Every year I actively work on 15 to 20 projects, most of them in different clients, with different teams.
As most of you, I simply feel repetitive work is a serious waste of time and resources, for which I don’t have a miracle cure, but I do have a couple of what I like to call good practices, that help me reduce repetitive work and thus elevate my productivity levels to a reasonable self-satisfying level. Here are some of them:
This pretty much covers my main project day life with Visual Studio and TFS 2010!
Now, if you want to have some fun, check out the new wave of Visual Studio 2011 coming out. New EDI, TFS and the TFServices are better than ever. Also the VS ALM Rangers team has shipped a new set of projects ready for the new platforms that are really worth wile. Here are some links for your greedy thirst for coding fun :
No GO And have fun 
It has been made available the Azure version of the Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Services), also known as TFS Services preview. You can create a free account with a live account and use it in your projects. For the time beeing it is free. I don’t have an idea of the business model of this offer, so don’t crussify me if it changes from free to something else .
Acess it at http://www.tfspreview.com
BTW, I’m already using it with several projects and my feeling for it is that it is great! Source control is stable. Remaining available features are quite stable. Other features should be released over time.
Cheers!
Yesterday (Sept 15th), the latest version of IE was out on the street. First impressions: Fast and very clean. Your bars are all disabled onfirst load. You will have to enable them IF you really need them.
With a little smaller memory print and a rendering engine that really is faster than IE8.
This browser is HTML 5 enabled and there is where all the fun will be in the time to come
Very worthwile taking a peak: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/
Finding good technical magazines is not allways a simple task. I’m sharing here 3 of my favourite mags distributed freely online in pdf format:
Enjoy.
Just FYI, the Beta 2 is out and available to all MSDN subscribers. Check it out here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151797
Cheers 
A new interesting paper has been published from VSTS Rangers: Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications. You can access the paper here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc948982.aspx.
As promissed, I’ve selected some of my favourite extensions that I have in my toolbox. Check them out (by no specific order…):
PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008: a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE.
Test Automation FX: The Test Automation FX framework installs inside of Visual Studio (2005 & 2008) and supports full VS integration, with custom project templates and designers allowing you to build automated user interface tests in your favorite IDE.
Source Code Outliner PowerToy: The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code’s types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them with filtering inside the editor.
Code Style Enforcer: Code Style Enforcer is a DXCore plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 that checks the code against a configurable code standard and best practices.
Resource Refactoring Tool: Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files.
XSLT Profiler Addin: Just what the name implies – a XSLT profiler.
Debug Inspector: view the call stacks of multiple threads at the same time, plugs in to the internals of the CLR and automatically detects deadlocks.
WSPBuilder: a nice solution package generator.
GhostDoc: generates comments in your code. Not just ///. It has inference rules to discover where the objects come from and what they are supposed to do. Spooky!
SPDisposeCheck: validates your code against undisposed disposable sharepoint objects. You may also want to check out SpDisposeCheckEx, a wrapper to integrate the tool into VS.
DocProject: generate electronic documentation from your source code comments. Requires sand castle (
TeamReview: helps the review process aloowing you to create tasks associated to selected areas of the code.
I’ll keep you posted as I go along.
Anyway, I’m changing for VS2010, so some of these extensions will become outdated.
If you are starting to develop sharepoint artifacts, take a look at http://MSSharepointDeveloper.com. There is some useful information to get you going in the right direction.
If you are developing for Sharepoint, chances are that you are using Visual Studio J. So do I. Having a couple of free time, I was looking for some addins to help me get rid of some boring or repetitive tasks. Take a look at codeplex (www.codeplex.com) and to http://www.visualstudiogallery.com. You will find some valuable addins for your daily routines. I’ll try to post my favorite ones soon.
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