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.NET Reflector improves Searching and Filtering

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:16:22 GMT

Debug code using .NET Reflector VSPro.

Filter your treeview and focus on items of interest.

.NET Reflector saves time and simplifies development by letting you see and debug the source of any .NET code you work with. It allows you to follow bugs through your application to see where the problems lie, whether it's in your own code, third-party libraries or components used by your application.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 8

Search and Filtering - The search includes basic scoping. So, for example, typing "web.read" would filter the object explorer to show only items with names containing "read" whose parent items contain "web".
Debugging in Visual Studio - Navigate to decompiled code from frames in the call stack, and decompile automatically if a debugging session encounters an exception in code without source. Additionally, setting a breakpoint in decompiled code now triggers automatic PDB generation, making it easier to step through 3rd party code.

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide. It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers. There are over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

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Red Gate .NET VS Productivity Pack released

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:17:30 GMT

Products included in the Red Gate .NET VS Productivity Pack.

Speed up .NET and database development in Visual Studio.

Red Gate .NET VS Productivity Pack helps you make better use of your time in Visual Studio, cutting time spent on common development activities such as debugging code, creating builds and working with databases. The VS Productivity Pack includes, .NET Demon, .NET Reflector VSPro, SQL Connect and SQL Prompt Pro.

Features

.NET Demon - See errors as you introduce them with continuous intelligent background compilation.
.NET Reflector VSPro - Understand and debug any 3rd party code, including frameworks, components and libraries.
SQL Connect - Develop databases in Visual Studio alongside application code, and synchronize against live databases.
SQL Prompt Pro - Strip away the tedium of coding in SQL with auto-completion, reformatting and refactoring.

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Red Gate .NET Toolbelt released

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:05:37 GMT

Products included in Red Gate .NET Toolbelt.

Complete .NET toolkit for rapidly creating high quality software.

Red Gate .NET Toolbelt provides you with everything you need to write, optimize, debug and securely release your application. It includes the following Red Gate tools, ANTS Performance Profiler, ANTS Memory Profiler, .NET Reflector VSPro, .NET Demon, SQL Connect, SQL Prompt and SmartAssembly Pro.

Features

ANTS Performance Profiler Pro - Get a complete picture of your application's performance and find bottlenecks in code.
ANTS Memory Profiler - Find memory leaks and optimize memory usage of your C# and VB.NET code.
.NET Reflector VSPro - Understand and debug any 3rd party code, including frameworks, components and libraries.
.NET Demon - Quickly create builds and see errors with continuous intelligent background compilation.
SQL Connect - Develop databases in Visual Studio alongside application code and synchronize against live databases.
SQL Prompt Pro - Strip away the tedium of coding in SQL with auto-completion, reformatting and refactoring.
SmartAssembly Pro - Receive instant, bug reports whenever an error occurs and protect your code against disassembly with powerful obfuscation.

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Red Gate .NET Development Suite launched

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:38:00 GMT

Memory Profiler included in Red Gate .NET Development Suite.

Optimize .NET application performance and speed up development.

Red Gate .NET Development Suite is a collection of six tools that enable you to rapidly build, optimize and debug .NET applications. It also helps you speed up development by reducing the time spent waiting for builds and working with databases. Red Gate .NET Development Suite helps you to quickly understand and resolve performance and memory problems, whether the code is your own or from a 3rd party.

Features

ANTS Performance Profiler Pro - Get a complete picture of your application's performance and find code or database bottlenecks.
ANTS Memory Profiler - Find memory leaks in minutes and optimize memory usage of your C# and VB.NET code.
.NET Reflector VSPro - Understand and debug any 3rd party code, including frameworks, components and libraries.
.NET Demon - Quickly produce software builds and see errors with continuous intelligent background compilation.
SQL Connect - Develop databases in Visual Studio alongside application code and synchronize against live databases.
SQL Prompt Pro - Simplify SQL coding with auto-completion, reformatting and refactoring.

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Red Gate .NET Performance Pack released

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:41:20 GMT

Memory Profiler included in Red Gate .NET Performance Pack.

Root out and fix slow or buggy .NET code.

Red Gate .NET Performance Pack contains three tools focused on helping you write high quality software. It helps you quickly understand code and optimize performance and memory usage of .NET applications. Red Gate .NET Performance Pack also shows you how your .NET code interacts with SQL Server or Oracle databases and the impact those interactions have on application performance.

Features

ANTS Performance Profiler Pro - Get a complete picture of your application's performance and find code or database bottlenecks.
ANTS Memory Profiler - Find memory leaks in minutes and optimize memory usage of your C# and VB.NET code.
.NET Reflector VSPro - Understand and debug any 3rd party code, including frameworks, components and libraries.

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SmartAssembly updated

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:04:51 GMT

Obfuscate using SmartAssembly.

SmartAssembly is a software protection and improvement tool designed to help .NET developers to produce better quality software. This all-round solution will obfuscate and protect your .NET code, optimize your .NET assemblies for better deployment, minimize distribution size, increase performance, and add powerful error-reporting and debugging capabilities to your application.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 6.7

Code obfuscated when WPF dependencies merged
Attributes on events were discarded after merging
Delegate types were not pruned
The ExcludePublicMembers option for Name Mangling did not work with merged assemblies
Stack trace decoding could fail with similarly-named types

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SmartAssembly Developer updated

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:47:01 GMT

Screenshot from SmartAssembly Developer.

SmartAssembly Developer is a software protection and improvement tool designed to help .NET developers to produce better quality software. This all-round solution will obfuscate and protect your .NET code, optimize your .NET assemblies, minimize distribution size and provide error-reporting and debugging. The Developer Edition is licensed per user and needs to be used in conjunction with a Standard or Pro Edition.

Updates in 6.2

Adds a set of sample error reports for new users
Minor bug fixes related to WPF support, the References Dynamic Proxy and timezone handling in feature usage reports

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide. It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers. There are over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

SQL Backup Pro adds Integrity Checking

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:57:00 GMT

Viewing activity history details in SQL Backup.

Run database integrity checks as part of a scheduled restore job.

SQL Backup Pro creates smaller, safer, faster backups of SQL Server databases. Backups are compressed, reducing storage space and hardware requirements (often known as "database zip"), they are created in less time than native backups and are securely encrypted. Native SQL Server backups are essentially just a dump of data stored in SQL Server .mdf and .ldf files. This is an inefficient and insecure way of storing backup data as it is stored unencrypted, unprotected and uncompressed. SQL Backup Pro is an enterprise-level tool that scales to meet the needs of larger SQL Server implementations. Access and manage all server backups remotely, from a central, client-based GUI. Secure your data, and meet compliance requirements, with 256-bit AES encryption.

SQL Backup Pro is also available as part of SQL Backup and Restore Bundle and SQL Toolbelt.

Updates in 7.0

Schedule a recurring restore from a backup that does not exist yet by specifying a folder and file name each time the job runs
Schedule a recurring restore from specific backup files which form a full backup or set of backups
Run a database integrity check as part of a scheduled restore job
Drop a database after a scheduled restore job has completed, or only if the restore and integrity check (if applicable) were successful
Take a copy-only backup using the Back Up or Schedule Backup Jobs wizards
Include CHECKSUM in the backup process using the Back Up or Schedule Backup Jobs wizards
Create a reminder to set up backup verification using the Schedule Backup Jobs wizard
Launch the Schedule Restore Jobs wizard from the Reminders tab, populated with details from the scheduled backup job, to set up backup verification
View results of CHECKSUM and DBCC CHECKDB in the Activity History

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SQL Data Compare updated

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:56:46 GMT

Comparing records with SQL Data Compare.

SQL Data Compare is used by thousands of Database Administrators (DBAs), developers and testers worldwide. SQL Data Compare is used when the data between two databases has got out of synch, and saves huge amounts of tedious work in synchronizing them. Others use it as a tool for QA, documentation and verification.

SQL Data Compare is available in the following editions

It is also available as part of SQL Developer Bundle and SQL Toolbelt

Updates in 10.0

Select a version of your database from source control
Recently used server list and recently accessed repository list
Fast Deploy - two-click deploy from the project list for common deployments
New option to compare null values as equal to empty strings
New option to compare floats that only have unsynchronizable differences as equal
Viewer now correctly displays full length of float values
Int datatypes can now successfully map to varchar and some other string types

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide.It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury, and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers, and there are over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

SQL Monitor adds Custom Metrics

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:56:19 GMT

SQL Monitor's user interface showing the status of monitored SQL Servers.

Collect a standard set of metrics from every monitored object.

SQL Monitor monitors the health and activity of your SQL Servers, providing you with intelligent alerts and recommendations in an intuitive interface and by email. It provides Web-based monitoring so you can monitor server performance in real time on desktop machines and mobile devices. With SQL Monitor you receive alerts via email and the UI as soon as problems arise. Check global, machine, cluster, server and database performance at a glance. Generate reports with SSRS or the UI and get full historical data allowing you to rewind time to identify the causes of problems fast.

Updates in 3.0

Custom Metrics - Custom metrics allow you to use your own T-SQL queries to collect metric values that aren't currently collected by default. They can also be used to collect application-specific information. Once collected, you can analyze and alert on this data.
User Roles - Administrators can now control user access to certain features in SQL Monitor. There are three user roles available; Administrator, Standard and Read-only. Each role is activated by creating a single password and then sharing it with relevant users. The following restrictions apply:
- Administrators have unrestricted access and can configure every feature in SQL Monitor.
- Standard users can manage and configure alerts, but cannot configure custom metrics, custom alerts or alert email settings. They can view most pages except the Manage user roles, Licensing and Base Monitor connection pages.
- Read-only users cannot make any configuration changes, but they can view most of the pages in SQL Monitor except the Manage user roles, Licensing and Base Monitor connection pages.
SQL 2012 / Denali Support - You can monitor SQL Server 2012 servers within SQL Monitor.
Analysis Graph Improvements - Graphs will no longer interpolate the data where there are significant gaps, so you can see more clearly whether data collection issues exist.

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide.It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury, and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers. There are over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

Profile SharePoint 2010 Sites

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:02:24 GMT

View processor time and line level timings with ANTS Performance Profiler.

Identify performance bottlenecks in your SharePoint 2010 Web applications.

ANTS Performance Profiler is a tool for profiling .NET applications including ASP.NET Web applications, Windows Services and COM+ applications. It identifies performance bottlenecks and highlights the specific lines of code that are responsible. ANTS Performance Profiler is available as a standalone tool or as part of the Red Gate .NET Developer Bundle.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 7.0.2

Full support for profiling SharePoint 2010 sites, Web applications running in IIS Express and Web applications deployed to Windows Azure or Amazon EC2
Decompile methods directly from the ANTS Performance Profiler interface
Log performance data on live, running ASP.NET applications
When using integrated decompilation, assemblies in .vb format are now decompiled to VB source code, rather than C#
"File not found" exceptions when decompiling source code are now handled more gracefully

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide. It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers with over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

SQL Compare 10 adds table mapping

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:46:00 GMT

Synchronizing SQL Server database with SQL Compare.

Prevent data loss when deploying tables or columns that have been renamed.

SQL Compare is a tool for comparing and synchronizing SQL Server database structures. It is used by over 150,000 database administrators, developers and testers. It automates the process of distributing database changes made on a local database, to testing, staging or live databases on remote servers. SQL Compare Pro contains a command-line interface and you can compare and synchronize SQL Server database schemas and automate tasks.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 10.0

Table mapping - Map together tables and columns with different names; this can be useful to prevent data loss when deploying tables or columns that have been renamed.
Creating a new database to compare - Useful if you want to create a copy of the source database.
Comparing revisions from SQL Source Control - Select specific versions of a source-controlled database to compare.
New command line switches - AbortOnWarnings, IgnoreSourceCaseSensitivity, LogLevel, ShowWarnings, Version1 and Version2.
New project options - Add object existence checks, use DROP and CREATE instead of ALTER, Ignore migration scripts for databases.
Connect to SQL Server 2012 (Denali) servers.
Transaction Isolation Level application option - Set the transaction isolation level used in deployment scripts. You can use this option to prevent deployment errors when using linked servers.

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide. It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury, and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers with over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

SQL Monitor 2.3 now includes SMS Alert integration

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:46:58 GMT

SQL Monitor's user interface showing the status of monitored SQL Servers.

Latest version of SQL Monitor integrates with third-party phone and SMS alerting tool, PagerDuty.

SQL Monitor analyzes the health and activity of your SQL Servers, providing you with intelligent alerts and recommendations. It provides a web-based solution to monitor server performance in real time on desktop machines and mobile devices. SQL Monitor's user interface also includes intuitive overviews allowing you to check global, machine, cluster, server and database health and performance at a glance. In addition to this you can receive alerts via email and the UI when issues arise. Performance monitoring data is stored in a SQL Server database, so you can generate reports allowing you to identify the causes of a problem fast.

Updates in 2.3

A Top 10 expensive queries list for each SQL Server instance and database.
Integration with third-party phone and SMS alerting tool PagerDuty.
Separate purge options for high and low volume data.

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide. It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury, and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers with over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

SmartAssembly updated

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:49:39 GMT

Obfuscating using SmartAssembly.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 6.2

Adds a set of sample error reports for new users of SmartAssembly. The sample reports are shown when you click View error reports.
There are also a small number of minor bug fixes related to WPF support, the References Dynamic Proxy and handling timezones in feature usage reports

About Red Gate Software

Red Gate Software Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide.It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury, and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers, and there are over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

SQL Backup Pro updated to 6.5

Fri, 20 May 2011 17:20:04 GMT

Viewing activity history details in SQL Backup.

SQL Backup Pro is also available as part of SQL Backup and Restore Bundle and SQL Toolbelt.

Updates in 6.5

New - Ability to choose "existing database file location" as well as the SQL Backup suggested defaults.
Improvements to purging backup files in the following cases:
- when folders contain spaces in the name
- when the restored database name differs from the original database name
Support for KEEP_CDC
LATEST_ALL keyword fixes for restoring the latest full backup and and all subsequent log and differential backups, in particular:
- handling large backup sets
- handling SQB files created with earlier versions of SQL Backup
Network resilience bug fixes
Product activation improvements
Improved debugging information and error handling:
- Improved timeout for VDI functions and threaded SQL connections
- Debug information for decompression
- More exception handling code when writing process data for the GUI
- When creating new folders
- Partially created backup files when running of disk space
- Detect if t-log backup file has previously been restored during log shipping
Quality improvement program - users now have the option to send usage information back to Red Gate to help us improve future versions

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SQL Compare 9.0 now supports SQL Azure databases

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:23:31 GMT

Synchronizing SQL Server database with SQL Compare.

Compare and synchronize SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and SQL Azure databases.

SQL Compare is available in the following editions

It is also available as part of SQL Comparison Bundle, SQL Developer Bundle and SQL Toolbelt

Updates in 9.0

SQL Compare 9.0 now supports SQL Azure databases.
Various bug fixes

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SQL Data Compare 9.0 released

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:23:11 GMT

Comparing records with SQL Data Compare.

SQL Data Compare 9.0 adds support for SQL Azure databases.

SQL Data Compare is available in the following editions

It is also available as part of SQL Developer Bundle and SQL Toolbelt

Updates in 9.0

SQL Data Compare 9.0 now supports SQL Azure databases.

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SQL Monitor 2.2 updated

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:22:52 GMT

Screenshot from SQL Monitor.

Adds 4 new alerts, plus you can now set maintenance windows to temporarily suspend alerting during set periods.

SQL Monitor Red Gate SQL Monitor monitors the health and activity of your SQL Servers, providing you with intelligent alerts and recommendations in an intuitive interface and by email. SQL Monitor provides Web-based monitoring, monitor server performance in real time on desktop machines and mobile devices. With SQL Monitor you receive alerts via email and the UI as soon as problems arise, check global, machine, cluster, server and database health and performance at a glance. Generate reports with SSRS or the UI and get full historical data allowing you to rewind time to identify the causes of problems fast.

SQL Monitor is also available as part of SQL DBA Bundle and SQL Toolbelt

Updates in 2.2

New Features:

Maintenance window - you can now set maintenance windows to temporarily suspend alerting during set periods.
Four new alerts - you will now receive alerts when connection issues occur.
Machine offline and SQL Server instance offline alerts have been renamed Machine unreachable and SQL Server instance unreachable respectively.

Bug Fixes:

SRP-2134: The Fragmented index alert is broken.
SRP-2927: Alert descriptions for Backup overdue, Log backup overdue and Integrity check overdue alerts need changing.
SRP-3135/ SRP-3136: The time displayed in the Occurrences tab of the Alert details page is out by 12 hours or is in the wrong format.
SRP-3018: Purge behavior does not work as expected; a backlog of data due to be purged builds up, and attempts to purge the backlog affects performance. To fix this, SQL Monitor has increased its usage of tempdb, so you may see tempdb grow by up to half the size of your Data Repository database. Once the backlog of data has been purged successfully and your SQL Server service has been restarted, tempdb size will revert back to normal.
SRP-3140: The Disk used alert description is not entirely accurate.
SRP-3090: Offline alerts: include seconds on alert timings.
SRP-2924: Allow a threshold of more than 100% for the Job duration unusual alert configuration.
SRP-2202/ SRP-1769: The availability of button in the Alert Inbox should not be determined by the visible page.
SRP-1137: Enable sorting of the SQL Process by ID to make it easier to find a particular process.
SRP-3243: On the Alert details page, trace data is retrieved only when users click a specific SQL process.

Known Issues:

SRP-495: If the Base Monitor loses its connection to the SQL Monitor Data Repository then you may see the following error, "System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException was thrown by method Query on service DataPresenterService: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding".
SRP-1443: An internal error occurs if the database name contains a non-latin character.
SRP-2167: A user will see a "script stack space quota is exhausted" JavaScript error on Firefox when there is a lot of performance data in an alert details page. Use an alternative browser to view SQL Monitor.
SRP-2310: "Back in time" can sometime crash with an error when using IE 7. Use an alternative browser to view SQL Monitor.
SRP-2702: Long running query process ID not appearing in the SQL Processes/Trace tab.

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SQL Source Control 2.1 released

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:22:28 GMT

Link a database to source control with SQL Source Control.

Now supports connecting SQL Server to Sourcegear Vault, Vault Pro, Mercurial, Perforce and other source control systems.

SQL Source Control makes database version control not only possible, but seamless. Integrated with SSMS, it works with the Team Foundation Server or Subversion source control systems. So database development can now benefit from source control without changing the way you work.

SQL Source Control is also available as part of SQL Toolbelt

Updates in 2.1

Adds support for Sourcegear Vault, Vault Pro, and additional systems (Mercurial, Perforce, CVS, Git, Bazaar and more).

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SmartAssembly adds feature usage reporting

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Obfuscating using SmartAssembly.

Version 6.0 also includes automated error reporting and tamper protection.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 6.0

Feature Usage Reporting

New Feature Usage Reporting: the functionality is simple and lightweight to start off with, but it can already automatically report information about the number of times various features were used in your application, and system information, such as the end user's OS and the highest version of .NET they have installed.

Automated Error Reporting

Jump to the source code from the error report stack trace, for even faster debugging.
Added support for error reporting in Windows Phone 7.

Obfuscation

Tamper protection for strong name signing that renders your assembly unusable and causes your application to crash, should anyone tamper or change your assembly.
Improved Control Flow Obfuscation by adding some extra branches to the code to confuse block analysis (a decompilation step).

Other

Support for Xbox XNA version 4.
Bug fixes.

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ANTS Memory Profiler adds snapshot API

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:57:00 GMT

Selecting an .NET executable to profile.

Version 7.0 also features improved support for WPF and redesigned and reorganized filters.

ANTS Memory Profiler makes .NET memory profiling simple. Use ANTS Memory Profiler to locate memory leaks, optimize applications with high memory usage, and check the health of your code during the development cycle and before release. ANTS Memory Profiler can profile any .NET application including ASP.NET web applications. ANTS Memory Profiler is available as a standalone tool or as part of the Red Gate .NET Developer Bundle.

Updates in V7.0

Redesigned summary. This gives immediate feedback on where your memory is being used, and now warns you if problems with large object heap fragmentation are detected.
New Instance Categorizer graph. Groups the instances of the class that you are investigating by the shortest path to the GC root, allowing you quickly to spot any paths that should not hold references to the instances.
Redesigned and reorganized filters.
New 'show only survivors in growing classes' filter highlights any classes where no instances were disposed between two snapshots, even though the number of instances of that class increased.
Field properties now available on the Instance Retention Graph.
Improved support for WPF: Dependency properties now shown with other field properties.
Snapshot API lets you take snapshots from your code.

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999 Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide. It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury, and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers, and there are over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

ANTS Performance Profiler patched

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:57:00 GMT

Viewing processor time and line level timings with ANTS Performance Profiler.

ANTS Performance Profiler is a tool for profiling applications written in any of the languages supported by the .NET framework. ANTS Performance Profiler profiles all .NET applications, including ASP.NET web applications, Windows Services and COM+ applications. ANTS Performance Profiler will identify performance bottlenecks within minutes, is fast and responsive with minimal impact on the execution of your program. It provides line-level timing so you can drill down to the specific lines of code responsible for performance inefficiencies. The Pro edition adds additional functionality such as the ability to save profiler results and profile child processes. ANTS Performance Profiler is available as a standalone tool or as part of the Red Gate .NET Developer Bundle.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 6.2

This version removes a dependency on the Microsoft J# runtime, thereby making installation both quicker and more reliable. A number of other minor bug fixes are also included.
Please note that ANTS Performance Profiler 6.2 does not support SharePoint 2010 or Windows Phone 7.

About Red Gate Software

Red Gate Software counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, the US Treasury and over 9,000 other leading organizations as customers of its software development tools. There are over 100,000 Microsoft technology DBAs, developers and testers currently using Red Gate products. The company believes that by producing simple tools that solve the technical problems of Microsoft technology professionals it will continue to add value to the software development community. Therefore, it does not sell 'integrated' software with large, often unnecessary, feature sets. Red Gate was founded in 1999 and moved to Cambridge at the start of the year 2000. It is a privately owned and managed company. Its focus is on Microsoft technologies. Red Gate was chosen as a Global Gold Launch Partner for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and are a Visual Studio Integration Program partner.

.NET Reflector Pro supports XAP files

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:57:00 GMT

Choosing assemblies to debug with .NET Reflector Pro.

Version 7.0 Integrates with Windows Explorer and Visual Studio via Add-in.

.NET Reflector Pro provides the latest version of .NET Reflector, plus a Visual Studio add-in containing the Pro features. .NET Reflector Pro integrates .NET Reflector into Visual Studio to allow you to seamlessly debug into third-party code and assemblies, even if you don't have the source code for them. For example, you may have a project that contains a third-party assembly, but you cannot step into it because you do not have the source code, symbols, or PDB file. After you have installed .NET Reflector Pro, you can use the Visual Studio add-in to select and decompile the assembly that you are interested in. You can then return to your source code in Visual Studio and treat the decompiled assembly much like your own code; you can step through the assemblies and use all the debugging techniques that you would use on your own code, including setting breakpoints.

.NET Reflector Pro is also available as part of Red Gate .NET Developer Bundle.

Updates in V7.0

Integrates with Windows Explorer and Visual Studio via Add-in
You can open Visual Studio, and use the .NET Reflector menu to select referenced assemblies you would like to debug into. These assemblies are then decompiled to C# or VB. You can then step into them whilst debugging, set breakpoints, see the values of variables and parameters, etc. In fact, the only debugger functionality that will not work is edit and continue. You can also decompile and explore source if you right-click on a project reference, and then click Decompile and Explore on the context menu.

Better decompilation, including the addition of iterator block (yield) support, as well as improvements to the .NET 4.0 decompilation,
Tabbed decompilation,
Ability to decompile and explore source code for referenced assemblies in Visual Studio,
Support for Silverlight XAP files
PowerCommands integration

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SQL Compare features SSMS add-in

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:32:00 GMT

Comparing tables with SQL Compare.

Version 8.5 enables you to set data sources to compare and synchronize from within SQL Server Management Studio.

SQL Compare is a tool for comparing and synchronizing SQL Server database structures. It is used by over 150,000 database administrators, developers and testers. SQL Compare automates the process of distributing database changes made on a local database to testing, staging or live databases on remote servers. SQL Compare Pro contains a command-line interface and you can compare and synchronize SQL Server database schemas and automate tasks.

The following editions are available:

SQL Compare Pro is also available as part of SQL Developer Bundle and SQL Toolbelt.

Updates in V8.5

A free add-in for SQL Server Management Studio that enables you to set data sources to compare and synchronize from within SQL Server Management Studio
Fast deployment and Fast deployment projects: synchronization with one click (Pro feature)
Support of handling databases under SQL Source Control (using the add-in)

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SQL Monitor adds license deactivation

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:32:00 GMT

SQL Server Instance Overview in SQL Monitor.

Version 2.1 also features improvements to email format and process name exclusion in long running query alert.

SQL Monitor monitors the health and activity of your SQL Servers, providing you with intelligent alerts and recommendations in an intuitive interface and by email. SQL Monitor provides Web-based monitoring, monitor server performance in real time on desktop machines and mobile devices. With SQL Monitor you receive alerts via email and the UI as soon as problems arise, check global, machine, cluster, server and database health and performance at a glance. Generate reports with SSRS or the UI and get full historical data allowing you to rewind time to identify the causes of problems fast.

SQL Monitor is also available as part of SQL DBA Bundle and SQL Toolbelt.

Updates in V2.1

License deactivation is now supported
Long running query alert now supports excluding by process name
Improvements to email format
Improvement to Job duration unusual alert
Performance improvement when trace in running
Long running query: Regex on new lines are treated as distinct new regex rather than a single regex with a new line in it