Tools for Windows Desktop

Tools written primarily for Windows Desktop using C# .NET.

Install

An app containing all the tools is available from the Microsoft Store, for a small fee, at https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NT0G542BWLG.

Build from source

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

Mono

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

.NET Core

A solution file is available to build some of the tools for Windows using .NET Core

dotnet build Tools.NetCore.sln

AMQP 1.0 Client Tool

A minimal interactive AMQP 1.0 client based on the AMQPNetLite library.

Azure EventHub Client Tool

An interactive EventHub client for Azure based on the official library Microsoft.Azure.EventHubs. Contributed by Anderson Urbano.

Bluetooth Serial Client Tool

Interactive client that may be used to open a Bluetooth serial socket, send, and receive data. Based on Windows.Devices.Bluetooth UWP API.

Bluetooth Serial Server Tool

Interactive Bluetooth serial listener/server based on Windows.Devices.Bluetooth UWP API.

Encoding Tool

Convert data or text to or from various formats such as Base64, and encoded HTML, XML, or URL.

Firewall Tool

Add exceptions to Windows Firewall using native COM library NetFwTypeLib. Contributed by Bruno Silveira.

Font Tool

A tool to play with fonts.

GitLab Tool

A tool to query projects and their milestones in GitLab.

Git Tool

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.

Globalization Tool

A tool to view information on locales, unicode characters, and do some basic conversions such as converting to upper and lower case.

HID Tool

An interactive client for USB HID devices based on HidSharp.

HTTP Request Tool

Interactive HTTP(S) client built using System.Net.HttpWebRequest.

HTTP Listener Tool

HTTP(S) server built using System.Net.HttpListener.

ICMP Tool

Interactive client that uses raw sockets to send/receive ICMP messages. Requires administrative privilege.

Kafka Client Tool

An interactive Kafka client based on the Confluent.Kafka library. The tool has been tested with cloudkarafka and Docker.

MQTT Client Tool

Interactive MQTT client based on the MQTTnet library.

Network Route Tool

Interactive client to add, view, and delete IP v4 routes on Windows. Requires administrative privilege.

Notification Tool

A tool used to show a notification to be reminded of something such as blinking your eyes.

Serial Tool

Interactive client that may be used to open a serial port, send, and receive data.

Service Discovery Tool

Sends out mDNS queries for the specified network service. Based on Windows.Devices.Enumeration UWP API.

SMTP Client Tool

An SMTP client.

SMTP Server Tool

An SMTP server based on the SmtpServer library that logs messages to a text box.

Sniffer Tool

An elementary tool that sniffs IPv4 packets using raw sockets. Requires administrative privilege.

TCP Client Tool

Interactive TCP/IP client that may be used to establish IPv4 TCP sessions, send, and receive data.

TCP Listener Tool

Interactive TCP/IP client that may be used as a rudimentary listener/server.

UDP Tool

Interactive UDP/IP client that may be used to establish IPv4 UDP sockets, send, and receive datagrams.

WebSocket Tool

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.

WebSocket Server Tool

Interactive WebSocket server based on System.Net.HttpListener. Supports SSL.

WMI Query Tool

A simple tool to query WMI classes and their properties.