Windows Tools I Always forget about...

While doing some asp.net dev today I needed to hack my hosts file so I could mimic a live website.  However after modifying my hosts file it didnt seem to affect things.  I figured there was some kind of DNS caching going on, which prompted me to remember this handy Windows command-line tool:

    ipconfig /flushdns

Similarly, the other night I ran into a port-80 conflict that was preventing IIS from operting properly so I used this command to find which apps were listening on Port 80:

    netstat -a -b -v

Hopefully this blog post will save me the time it took for me to dig-around and find these tools again...