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Tools
  • NDepend - |
    Provides several vital benchmarks and a potentially bewildering wealth of statistics. Dependencies and abstractness versus instability charts give immediate visual feedback on the dependency state of your assemblies. Visual explorer lets you browse metrics via a unique UI.
  • FxCop - |
    Invaluable tool for checking if .NET assemblies conform to well-established design guidelines. Can be used by automated build and continuous integration processes.
  • NProf - |
    Simple profiler for finding bottlenecks in .NET apps. Supports ASP.NET profiling.
  • NCover - |
    Monitors a .NET program while it is running and reports which lines of code were executed and which were not
  • NCoverExplorer - |
    GUI tool for viewing, sorting, and filtering source code coverage results provided in NCover Coverage.xml files. Integrates with Visual Studio using TestDriven.NET. Automated build and CI processes can use the console version for merging and reporting.
  • Process Explorer - |
    Great tool for getting details on processes, the resources they use, and system performance
  • Reflector - |
    A great tool for exploring APIs in an assembly and learning more about how that assembly is used
  • Unlocker - |
    Helps you quickly find which processes are locking files of interest, and kill those processes if needed