Tools written primarily for Windows Desktop using C# .NET.
An app containing all the tools is available from the Microsoft Store, for a small fee, at https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NT0G542BWLG.
To build all the tools, clone this repository, open the solution file Tools.sln
using Visual Studio 2019, and build.
To build from the command line, open Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2019, change to the net-tools
directory, and run
msbuild /t:Restore Tools.sln
msbuild Tools.sln
A solution file is available for building some of the tools for Linux using Mono.
Use the msbuild version supplied by Mono to build
msbuild Tools.Mono.sln
A solution file is available to build some of the tools for Windows using .NET Core
dotnet build Tools.NetCore.sln
A minimal interactive AMQP 1.0 client based on the AMQPNetLite library.
An interactive EventHub client for Azure based on the official library Microsoft.Azure.EventHubs. Contributed by Anderson Urbano.
Interactive client that may be used to open a Bluetooth serial socket, send, and receive data. Based on Windows.Devices.Bluetooth UWP API.
Interactive Bluetooth serial listener/server based on Windows.Devices.Bluetooth UWP API.
Convert data or text to or from various formats such as Base64, and encoded HTML, XML, or URL.
Add exceptions to Windows Firewall using native COM library NetFwTypeLib
. Contributed by Bruno Silveira.
A tool to play with fonts.
A tool to query projects and their milestones in GitLab.
A wrapper around command line Git, that allows running multiple commands on several cloned repos at once. A command can reference all or part of the output of the previous command with {{OUT:start,length}}
where start
is zero-indexed. Several repos can be cloned from GitHub or GitLab at once. A customizable cheatsheet is available in cheatsheet.md. Any line starting with $ git
is assumed to be a git command and displayed in the tool.
A tool to view information on locales, unicode characters, and do some basic conversions such as converting to upper and lower case.
An interactive client for USB HID devices based on HidSharp.
Interactive HTTP(S) client built using System.Net.HttpWebRequest.
HTTP(S) server built using System.Net.HttpListener.
Interactive client that uses raw sockets to send/receive ICMP messages. Requires administrative privilege.
An interactive Kafka client based on the Confluent.Kafka library. The tool has been tested with cloudkarafka and Docker.
Interactive MQTT client based on the MQTTnet library.
Interactive client to add, view, and delete IP v4 routes on Windows. Requires administrative privilege.
A tool used to show a notification to be reminded of something such as blinking your eyes.
Interactive client that may be used to open a serial port, send, and receive data.
Sends out mDNS queries for the specified network service. Based on Windows.Devices.Enumeration UWP API.
An SMTP client.
An SMTP server based on the SmtpServer library that logs messages to a text box.
An elementary tool that sniffs IPv4 packets using raw sockets. Requires administrative privilege.
Interactive TCP/IP client that may be used to establish IPv4 TCP sessions, send, and receive data.
Interactive TCP/IP client that may be used as a rudimentary listener/server.
Interactive UDP/IP client that may be used to establish IPv4 UDP sockets, send, and receive datagrams.
Interactive WebSocket client that may be used to establish WebSocket sessions, send, and receive data. It is built with .NET's native implementation of WebSockets.
Interactive WebSocket server based on System.Net.HttpListener. Supports SSL.
A simple tool to query WMI classes and their properties.