Chapter 6 Tools

Sponsor Tools
  • SubText
    Subtext is a personal blog publishing platform that focuses on usability, elegance, and simplicity. If you’ve ever caught yourself throwing your hands in the air and declaring that you’re going to write your own blogging engine, then Subtext is for you.
Tools
  • Visual Studio Express Editions - |
    Five free, lightweight, easy-to-use, and easy-to-learn tools for the hobbyist, novice, and student developer. Products support Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, and Visual J#. Visual Web Developer Express is designed for web development. SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, a free, lightweight database, is also available as an optional component.
  • SharpDevelop - |
    An Integrated Development Environment for .NET applications written in C#, Visual Basic, and Boo
  • MonoDevelop - |
    An open source IDE for GNOME-based Linux and Mac OS X
  • Snippet Compiler - |

  • Notepad2 - |
    A lightweight, powerful text editor offering syntax highlighting for many different languages
  • The Regulator - |
    Write and test regular expressions easily
  • ReguLazy - |
    Create regular expressions visually