Cool-Man's Visual Studio .NET Page

I use C# and .NET a lot for work and home projects.  Here are a few things I can share:

• MMToMLO_UI, a GUI-based FreeMind-to-MyLifeOrganized converter.
• FreeMind is a Mind Mapper tool.
• MyLifeOrganized is a powerful hierarchical task list that can be used as a general outliner.
• To install:  Download and unzip this file and run it directly from anywhere.  There is no installer.  You must have .NET 4 installed.
• It's easy to use:  Check a couple options to control the conversion process, then drag your FreeMind .mm files into the app, and it writes out corresponding MLO .xml files.  You can then import these one at a time into MLO Desktop.
  
• LookCool, an image browser application (JPG only) with special features to recursively reset file dates from the EXIF headers, and to export the EXIF headers as XML.  It also lets you automatically rename files to change spaces to underscores (useful for web publishing).  You can download the source here, or the release version here.  The current version is 1.1.0 (01-03-2004).  One additional useful thing it includes is a class which lets you easily fire-and-forget a function asynchronously in another thread, keeping you from having to make your own helper classes in cases where you need to run a function in another thread but it must take some parameters (which System.Threading.Thread doesn't directly allow, and the thread pooling classes are good except if you might Abort() the thread).  I made use of several other people's work in creating LookCool:
  • ExplorerTree from http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/ExplorerTree.asp (by Carlos H. Perez) (from UtilityLibrary)
  • NewLayout by Chris Anderson
  • PhotoPropertiesLibrary by Jeffrey S. Gangel
  • ProgressWindow by Matthew Adams
  • FlowPanel by Gytis Jakutonis (actually I don't use it currently, I tried and I guess I didn't like it. I haven't cleaned it though yet)
  Many of these are located on CodeProject, otherwise you can find them via google.
  I developed LookCool using Visual Studio .NET 2002. I may upgrade to 2003 at some point here, though for pure C# it seems to be working okay. (For the Managed C++ I do at work, Visual Studio .NET 2003 is a must!)  By the way, .NET is pretty darned amazing to develop with.  I loved Java, and C# is pretty similar.  Although LookCool currently doesn't have any need for reflection or attributes, I use them extensively at work.  Great stuff.
• BidirHashtable, a bidirectional Hashtable allowing efficient reverse lookups.  A demo project (source only) is here.  Current version:  1.0.  Look for its article on CodeProject.

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