I have been using the Enterprise Architect tool from sparx systems for last 4+ years for UML based design. Every time I start a new architect role, I used to check with the team which UML tool they are familiar with, so that we can communicate the design to the team more effectively. I am sure, all of us would like to use our favorite tool, if the organization don’t have standards related to design.

Here in my new organization, colleagues use different tools like Rational Rose, StarUML, Visio etc. We will be doing most of the developments in Visual Studio 2005/2008 and C++ or C#. I have worked with Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, Visio, Raphsody, Rational XDE etc, and I did some research on UML tools available in market. Read more »

Most of the time we used to deal with different versions of assembly; especially while working with multiple projects in multiple locations. We dont know which version of DLL other apps referring, I am not talking about the “DLL Hell’. This is all about .NET dlls which we will be deploying into GAC later. If you dont have a proper global version control system for components, build process will be a headache. Just to find out the references of one .NET assembly I wrote a simple utility, where users can simply drag and drop the .EXE or DLL. More

SreeSharp NewsReader successfully completed its first one week

Now time for your comments and feedback. I have got some feedbacks through mails. Please use this space for feedbacks and feature requests, so that others can see before sending any comments.

Once again thanks for your valuable feedbacks.

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your feedback. Here is an updated version of SreeSharp NewsReader (v1.1). Download

Now you can enter your proxy credentials.

Thanks to Rajesh and Vinod, for testing this tool with proxies with password.

Thanks to Archan Ghosh, who checked this tool with Borland, Linux, Weblogic and IBM newsgroups.

SreeSharp NewsReader is windows based desktop application for connecting news group servers (NNTP based) via HTTP. Most of the corporate offices don’t allow news group access since they have blocked port 119 using firewall. SreeSharp NewsReader can connect any news servers, which built on RFC 977 specification, using HTTP.

Waiting for your comments and feedbacks..

SreeSharp NewsReader - Windows Desktop based application to access Newsgroup over HTTP. Really?? Yup I have been working for this for that last one week. (Only after office hours , since NewsReader cant provide my bread;) ) Planning to release the beta version by next week.
Major features

• NNTP Server access using port 80
• Public & Private NewsGroup access
• Message Download

Remember, this is not a replacement for Outlook Express; Just for folks sitting behind firewall. Cross you fingers till next week.

SreeSharp NewsReader beta is still under testing and bug fixing phase. Between, I thought of uploading the main screenshot.