Architecture News

Make Local Apps Visible Via Your LAN or the Internet

June 10, 2025
Conveyor creates a secure tunnel to your dev machine, ideal for testing APIs, webhooks, and mobile views on real devices.

Conveyor by Keyoti is a Visual Studio extension designed to facilitate testing of web applications across various devices. It enables developers to access their IIS Express-hosted applications from other machines on the same network, such as smartphones and tablets, without requiring complex configuration changes. Additionally, Conveyor offers a tunneling service that allows remote access over the internet, which is particularly useful for scenarios like webhook testing or collaborative development.

Upon installation, Conveyor automatically integrates with web application projects in Visual Studio. When a project is run or debugged, Conveyor provides a Remote URL, allowing access to the application from other devices on the same network. Conveyor simplifies the process of making local web applications accessible externally. This tool is especially beneficial for developers aiming to test responsive designs or API integrations across multiple devices without deploying their applications to a live server.

Conveyor is licensed per developer, and is available as an annual subscription license. See our Conveyor licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our Conveyor product page.

View Unity Performance Data in Your IDE

June 10, 2025
JetBrains Rider now integrates Unity Profiler data directly into the editor, making it easier to identify performance issues in real time.

Rider by JetBrains is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) tailored for .NET developers. Combining the power of ReSharper with the IntelliJ platform, it delivers a fast and feature-rich experience for editing, debugging, and testing .NET, ASP.NET, Unity, and more. Rider supports a wide array of languages and project types, allowing developers to work seamlessly across codebases. With intelligent code analysis, version control integration, and a responsive UI, Rider helps developers maintain high code quality and productivity in diverse development environments.

Rider now supports Unity Profiler integration, enhancing how developers optimize Unity applications. With this new feature, Rider fetches CPU usage snapshots and presents them alongside your Unity code, helping you pinpoint performance bottlenecks during development. The IDE lets you navigate from entries in the Unity Profiler's hierarchy view directly to the relevant methods in your scripts, significantly reducing the back-and-forth typically required when analyzing performance data. This integration supports a smoother debugging experience and encourages more performance-aware development for Unity projects.

Rider is licensed per user, and is available as a commercial annual subscription license. We can supply new subscriptions, subscription renewals, lapsed renewals, and additional user licenses. See our Rider licensing page for full details.

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Easily Monitor Your Full Database Infrastructure

June 9, 2025
Redgate Monitor offers real-time monitoring and alerting for SQL Server and PostgreSQL, all from a single, centralized dashboard.

Redgate Monitor (formerly known as SQL Monitor) is a database monitoring tool that helps users quickly identify and fix performance problems on a variety of platforms, including SQL Server and PostgreSQL. It provides real-time monitoring, alerting, root cause analysis, and performance tuning recommendations. Redgate Monitor can be used by DBAs, developers, and operations teams to improve the performance of their databases.

Redgate Monitor provides a centralized dashboard that allows software developers to view and manage their entire SQL Server and PostgreSQL estate from one location. This streamlined interface simplifies the monitoring process by consolidating key performance data, alerts, and diagnostics, enabling faster identification and resolution of issues. By reducing the need to navigate multiple tools or environments, Redgate Monitor helps developers work more efficiently and maintain the stability and performance of their databases.

Redgate Monitor is licensed per server on an annual subscription basis. See our Redgate Monitor licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Redgate Monitor product page.

Retrieve and Present Data from Various Sources

June 9, 2025
Built-in support for varied data sources, such as MongoDB, XML, JSON or Excel, makes it easy to bind and visualize live information in your reports.

Data connectivity is a foundational aspect of modern reporting components, enabling applications to retrieve and present data from a wide variety of sources. Whether integrating with relational databases, cloud services, or flat files, effective data connectivity ensures that reports reflect current, accurate information. Reporting components are designed to abstract the complexity of accessing these data sources, providing developers with flexible APIs and tools to bind data into visualizations and formatted reports.

Common features include:

  • Entity Framework ORM integration simplifies data access by enabling reporting on strongly-typed entities directly from the application's data model.
  • Excel / CSV support is essential for importing user-generated data or integrating with business workflows where spreadsheets are common.
  • IEnumerable provides broader compatibility with LINQ and deferred execution, enabling more dynamic and efficient data querying.
  • IList support allows reporting tools to bind directly to .NET collections, making it easy to create reports from in-memory objects.
  • JSON data binding supports modern web APIs and microservices, allowing developers to build reports from real-time or external data feeds formatted in a lightweight, widely-used structure.
  • MongoDB integration enables reporting over NoSQL data structures, particularly useful for applications relying on flexible, document-oriented databases.
  • OLEDB connectivity facilitates access to legacy systems and a wide range of data providers through a standardized interface.
  • XML data sources are often used for structured data interchange and provide a versatile method for both hierarchical and flat data binding.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our Blazor reporting components comparison.

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Enhance Support Service with Flexible Screen Sharing

June 9, 2025
TSplus Remote Support includes versatile attended and unattended session sharing, enabling real-time user-guided assistance.

TSplus Remote Support is a remote desktop control solution that enables IT teams to deliver instant attended or unattended assistance without complex setup. Agents can take control of a user’s screen, mouse, and keyboard with a single click and communicate via built-in chat. The platform supports live troubleshooting, background maintenance, branded client customization, and secure connection management through TSplus servers. Typical use cases include help desk support, unattended system updates, and remote training, all achieved through a user-friendly, scalable interface.

TSplus Remote Support offers a robust screen sharing feature that enables support agents to seamlessly take control of a client's screen, mouse, and keyboard with a single click from the end-user. This immediate access is facilitated through a lightweight executable, requiring no installation or configuration, improving the support process. Once connected, a dedicated chat interface appears, allowing for real-time communication and file sharing between the agent and the client. The platform supports both attended and unattended sessions, providing flexibility for various support scenarios.

TSplus Remote Support is licensed per concurrent connection. Licenses include a 1 year subscription for updates and support. See our TSplus Remote Support licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our TSplus Remote Support product page.