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Saw a funny post on this blog earlier, and thought maybe a lot of people don’t know about the tools in SDK.  One of them is wincv, and if you don’t know about wincv.exe, you’ve been missing out.  If you use reflector, then you haven't been missing out, and I like reflector better, personally.

Wincv is the windows forms class viewer.  It lets you find information about a class simply by typing in a search string.  If I launch wincv (location in “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin” so it helps to have this in your PATH) and type in “DateTime”, I get what you see below:

The default assemblies it loads for searching are:  mscorlib.dll, System.dll, System.Data.dll, System.Design.dll, System.DirectoryServices.dll, System.Drawing.dll, System.Drawing.Design.dll, System.Messaging.dll, System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll, System.ServiceProcess.dll, System.Web.dll, System.Web.Services.dll, System.Windows.Forms.dll, System.XML.dll

For more information, see the MSDN documentation for Wincv.exe