Wednesday, July 20, 2005
July 20, 2005
How the hell did I miss this... for years?!

wincv.exe.. who knew?!..

[18:01] <NothingMn> really dig into System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterCategory
[18:02] <NothingMn> wincv.exe
[18:03] <tranqy> wtf
[18:03] <tranqy> where did this wincv.exe shit come from, and how did I not know about it earlier
[18:03] <tranqy> this is awesome
[18:03] <NothingMn> haha
[18:03] <NothingMn> it is it is
[18:03] <MuteThis> yeah, but its public only
[18:03] <NothingMn> i shipped in like v1.0
[18:03] * NothingMn smacks tranqy [18:04] &lttranqy&gt lol
[18:04] <Rivan> lol
[18:04] <Rivan> damn you tranqy.... its a MUST know.. :p
[18:04] <tranqy> no shit
[18:05] <tranqy> thats gonna cut my google traffic in half I think :)

Years of coding .net, and it took 15 seconds of dropping in the chatroom to find a huge timesaver.. thanks guys..
[edit] check the comments for a more complete description of wincv, as well as a link to a followup conversation.

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8:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time    |  Comments [8]  |  Trackback  | 
7/20/2005 9:31:50 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
OK, so for the rest of us who weren't in on the conversation, what is wincv.exe?
Brian
7/20/2005 1:57:25 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)


http://weblogs.asp.net/rchartier/archive/2005/07/20/420024.aspx
Rob Chartier |nothingmnAT NOSPAMmscorlib dot com
7/20/2005 3:00:13 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
Its a pretty cool tool. CV stands for Class view, but I'm not sure why they called it WinCV. Should have been DotNetCV.exe imho. It is a class filter. It allows you to find classes pretty quickly. Lets say, for instance, that you know there is some sort of class that has the name "management" but you aren't quite sure what it was exactly or where it was. Just open up wincv.exe and type management. Every class that has management in its name or interface will be displayed.
Tobin Titus
7/20/2005 3:11:34 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
As Tobin said. It's a SUPER fast class browser. It's perfect when your looking for that class you know is somewhere in the framework. It's not quite a reflector, but that would be the next logical step :)

I was disappointed to not see it in the beta2 toolkit, though. Hopefully it will be back at RTM time.
Aaron Junod |tranqyAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
7/20/2005 10:54:16 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
My question (I also didn't know about it...) what's this chat room where such truths are told!!!
Scott C. Reynolds |scottAT NOSPAMscottcreynolds dot com
7/21/2005 7:40:08 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
Scott :

I hang out in a couple .net chat rooms. On the efnet network check out

#mscorlib
#asp.net
#ms.net

Dotnetrocks also uses efnet, so #dotnetrocks sometimes is active, especilly during the taping of the show.

Also, ##csharp on freenode is a good channel. I don't hang out in there as much, but the quality of developer seems higher there then on efnet.
Aaron Junod |tranqyAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
7/26/2005 2:13:09 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
And just for your info:

The reason no one is using wincv.exe is because there is reflector.exe :)

http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet

You guys are living under a rock.
CaveMan
7/26/2005 2:28:55 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
Caveman I think reflector and wincv have totally different uses. I use reflector all the time, when I want to peek inside something. For searching, though, wincv offers a quicker lookup, as well as an easier to digest view of the object (read less info, only the stuff I care about when I'm searching, public members). Wincv to find something, reflector to figure out how something works for me..
Aaron Junod |tranqyAT NOSPAMgmail dot com


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