An early Christmas present

According to the MonoDevelop survey (http://www.monodevelop.com/Survey_Results_2007), 477 people would like to have Profiling support integrated. So ... here it is :)


Some features:

• Support for heap-shot and heap-buddy
• Run a MonoDevelop project using a given profiler
• Get profiling results of a process that is already running
• Open existing snapshots (and auto detect the snapshot type)
• Save snapshots

After my exams, I will add support for live profiling, using the new profiler that Massimiliano Mantione is working on (see blog post).

To try it out, you will need the svn version of MonoDevelop. Instructions and some more information can be found on the wiki: http://www.monodevelop.com/Profiling_support

MonoDevelop Database Addin

This will be my first post on my new blog, and the first one that will appear on monologue, so ... hello :). I started submitting small monodevelop patches a couple of years ago and this year I was accepted into the summer of code to work on a database addin. A couple of months and 35000 lines of code later, it is time to show my work.

The new MonoDevelop.Database addin provides some interesting features that will hopefully shorten the development of your database applications:

• Query databases from within monodevelop and browse through db objects
  
• Create new databases
• Create, drop and rename tables, views, procedures, triggers, constraints, ...
• Alter stored procedures and views
• Support for PostgreSQL, Sqlite, MySql and SqlServer
  
• ...

In the future (meaning, mid september), support will be added for table alterations and I will investigate solutions for automatic database glue generation.

Some screenshots:


All the details and some more screenshots can be found on the wiki page.
(Sadly, due to an unfortunate timing of some school exams and a change in the monodevelop addin paths, the patch does not work with the current svn version, this will be fixed after my exams around August 27.)