Did you know that Windows 7 has a GodMode? What GodMode does is enable you to have a place where you can get to all the settings without having to browse around and click through options and folders in control panel.

Add a new folder to your desktop and name it GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

After that is done you will see the following icon on your desktop

Now when you cli...

Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor that gives you a "split view" so you can see both your XAML and your rendered content (kind of like XamlPad but without the gigabyte of SDK).

First watch the video on channel 9 to see what it looks like. Here is what is covered:

Robby Ingebretsen came by to explain what Kaxaml is and how it can be useful to you when developing XAML-based applications. Not only does he introduce the tool, but he also touches on some of the lesser known features and add-ins that may be missed on an initial glance.

Robby also discusses th...

sqtlrace is a stored procedure written by Lee Tudor (a.k.a Mr Tea.) The procedure takes an SQL batch as its first argument, sets up a trace filtered to include the current connection only, runs the batch, and summarises the trace information per statement in the batch. This can be a very handy tool to track down performance bottlenecks in a longer stored procedure, not the least if there are calls to nested procedures.

You can also use sqltrace to capture the query plans from a batch. This makes it possible to capture a single plan in a deep chain of nested stored p...