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Check out the red-gate tools and ssmstoolspack. SSMS tools pack has saved my ass so many times. It stores every query you run in a local database.

As much as I'd like to suggest it's a generally applicable idea, it's actually very specific to the company. Grab the recruitment guide:

http://www.red-gate.com/our-company/careers/book-of-red-gate

Jump to page 34 (as numbered). Then 64, then 95. Note it's actually a running theme. So, essentially, it's a kinda quirky way of showing I've spent a lot of time looking at the company. Even then, it was a VERY high risk gamble, and one I was only willing to take because I had a job I was trying to move up from, rather than just frantically searching for a job.

Still, doing a lot of background research on a company and trying to reflect that in your covering letter and resume (CV if you're in the UK) is good advice.

For practically everything that is not written in native code, you can use the .NET Reflector to peek into the source code.

For internals such as the TCP/IP stack, it would not be included. I honestly am not sure it would be a huge leap to take the BSD stack and convert it, but I am not sure if the Micro Framework was any different from the whole .NET Framework's TCP/IP classes. Fortunately, since it is OSS now, someone can replace that slice, and probably will by early next year.

It's .NET code. It's already "Open Source" by virtue of tools like Reflector existing.

I do not think that that is what "Open Source" is generally taken to mean.

It's .NET code. It's already "Open Source" by virtue of tools like Reflector existing.

You can probably just disassemble Silverlight stuff yourself with tools like .NET Reflector.

It can definitely be useful. For example, a company called Redgate makes an Intellisense tool for SQL Server (they're giving it away as a free non-timebombed download until Sep 1, btw) that plugs into your existing SQL editor and adds auto-complete. (I don't know if they've actually used global hooks here or some worse hack, like window code injection, but this is the sort of thing global hooks are useful for)

The point is, any feature can be abused and made into a security risk. Doesn't mean we take features away.

It can definitely be useful. For example, a company called Redgate makes an Intellisense tool for SQL Server (they're giving it away as a free non-timebombed download until Sep 1, btw) that plugs into your existing SQL editor and adds auto-complete. (I don't know if they've actually used global hooks here or some worse hack, like window code injection, but this is the sort of thing global hooks are useful for)

The point is, any feature can be abused and made into a security risk. Doesn't mean we take features away.

Oh wait, do you mean .NET? :-) And while you are downloading the "free" IDE, you can also pick up one of several
visual code profilers out there.

I've had really good luck with Ants. I found it alot more intuitive than AQTune.

Check out this product from Red-Gate Software.