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Best Patterns Web Sites

If you have any suggestions, feel free to share.

webdesign design inspiration ui interface usability web
http://patterntap.com

microsoft practices development .net architecture programming design
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/practices/default.aspx

usability webdesign design interface ux reference ui
http://uipatternfactory.com

design webdesign
http://ui-patterns.com 


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Top tools for the managed and native programmer...

In this post I will compile a list of tools that I use. Feel free to suggest any other tool :

Common Tools
WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views.
http://windirstat.info/

Dependency Walker is a free utility that scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules.
http://www.dependencywalker.com/

Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Managed
Deliver The Power Of Spy++ To Windows Forms
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163617.aspx 

Explore, browse, and analyze .NET assemblies
http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/

Native
Spy++ (Available with Visual Studio.)

Profiling
AQTime ($)
http://www.automatedqa.com/products/aqtime/

Visual Studio Addin
Instantly find every occurrence of a function, variable, API, error code or anything else in your source code, with a single keystroke.
http://entrian.com/source-search/


VisualStudio - Import Visual Studio Settings programmatically - *.vssettings

Use the following command to import setting programmatically :

 devenv /command "Tools.ImportandExportSettings /import:<Path to *.vssettings file>"