iDevelop

After discovering that my development machine was getting bogged down like you wouldn’t believe, I decided that I could trim some of the processes and services down. One of the biggest offenders was Sql. I don’t need to have sql running ALL the time. So why have it start when I log in?

I first created a few batch files using the net start and net stop commands. I then created this little app that will run in the system tray and read the contents of a folder and create a context menu item for each batch file. Then when I right click the icon in the tray and choose an entry it kicks off the selected batch file giving me quick access to start and stop my processes (or run any command or shortcut for that matter).

I am cleaning up the project and I will put a good clean build up here soon.

Download Batch Tools 1.0

I am posting this on a well covered topic, because the examples I saw online were stupidly complex for this simple task. Now, I don’t mean to say that this is the most efficient method, but for smaller sets of data (we have less than 1000 records returned from this query) it is fast and easy.

Obviously, make sure you have the GridView set to allow paging. You will need to add an event handler for the GridViewPageIndexChanging (Not “Changed”). There is a private property for the class, ds which is a custom DataSet we have in our application. Any DataSet or DataTable (binding source?) will (should) work.
[code lang="c"]protected void gvUsers_PageIndexChanging(object sender, GridViewPageEventArgs e)
{
DataTable dt = ds.GetUsers;
gvUsers.DataSource = dt;
gvUsers.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex;
gvUsers .DataSource = dt;
gvUsers .DataBind();
}[/code]

This is something that is going on two years old now, but it pops into my mind every so often. How come we haven’t heard about any Mac or Linux software Jedi? Does anybody remember the Original Software Jedi and is “App a day” project? I do. I still use some of those utilities from time to time. I think my favorite is the quick kill applications.

It seems to me that nobody has wanted to step up to the plate to try and match his feat in the non-Windows world. I certainly don’t think I would be able to find the time to do it myself, so perhaps that is an issue? There has to be somebody out in the ‘verse whom is up to the task. Who knows though. I would love to see something like this go on for the Mac and Linux world. A lot of very useful stuff comes out of it and there is lots to learn. I admit that I could stand to learn some *nix and Mac coding tricks.

If I am just off my rocker, and somebody is doing this (although I find it hard to believe that I would have missed it. I mean, hell, somebody would have submitted it to digg, right?) please share with me.