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  • Ajax.NET Professional - Open Source | Love Count
    A lightweight Ajax framework that makes it easy to call server-side methods from client-side code.
    Tags:
      Chapter 1
      Web Development
      AJAX


  • AnkhSVN - Open Source | Love Count
    Get access to all the power of Subversion while working inside Visual Studio
    Tags:


  • Anthem.NET - Open Source | Love Count
    Provides web form controls with Ajax built right into them; no client-side JavaScript required
    Tags:
      Chapter 1
      Web Development
      AJAX


  • ASP.NET AJAX (formerly "Atlas") - Free | Love Count
    A client- and server-side framework providing components and infrastructure that allow the creation of highly interactive web applications while hiding the complexities of Ajax and JavaScript portability
    Tags:
      Chapter 1
      Web Development
      AJAX


  • ASP.NET Cache Visualizer - Free | Love Count
    Provide a better view of your variables while debugging and add functionality to the debugging experience
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      visualizer
      cache


  • Basecamp - Free | Love Count
    Manage your projects online with messaging, to-do lists, milestone lists, and more
    Tags:
      Chapter 13
      collaboration
      communication
      project management


  • Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs - Open Source | Love Count
    APIs for encryption, signature, and certificate generation using a variety of Internet standards
    Tags:
      Chapter 17
      cryptography
      hash
      key


  • BugTracker.NET - Open Source | Love Count
    Simple to set up and configure, easy to learn and use defect/issue tracker
    Tags:
      Chapter 14
      bug tracker
      defects
      bugs
      tracker


  • Bugzilla - Open Source | Love Count
    Feature-rich, powerful, highly customizable defect tracker with an immense user community
    Tags:
      Chapter 14
      bug tracker
      defects
      bugs
      tracker


  • BusyBoxDotNet - Open Source | Love Count
    An ASP.NET web-control library capable of showing a customizable message during time-consuming activities
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 1
      Web Development
      UI


  • Castle ActiveRecord - Open Source | Love Count
    O/RM project that implements the ActiveRecord enterprise pattern. Built on top of NHibernate.
    Tags:
      Chapter 21
      object relational mapper
      OR/M


  • Castle MonoRail - Open Source | Love Count
    Agile MVC framework for web applications
    Tags:
      Web Development
      Chapter 18
      Framework
      MVC


  • Castle Windsor Container - Open Source | Love Count
    A simple Inversion of Control container that is easily augmented by using facilities
    Tags:
      Chapter 18
      Inversion of Control
      IOC


  • CI Factory - Open Source | Love Count
    Canned CI server able to build most any project out of the box
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 12
      automated build
      continuous integration


  • CLR Profiler - Free | Love Count
    Powerful, flexible tool for monitoring your application’s memory usage
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      managed memory
      garbage disposal
      CLR
      memory


  • CLR SPY - Free | Love Count
    Powerful tool that lets you quickly see what’s going on in the CLR
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      managed memory
      garbage disposal
      CLR
      memory


  • ClrDump - Free | Love Count

    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      debugging
      dump


  • CodeTrack - Open Source | Love Count
    A lightweight web-based defect and change-request tracking system that runs under PHP and Apache or IIS on Windows, Linux, BSD or OS X
    Tags:
      Chapter 14
      bug tracker
      defects
      bugs
      tracker


  • Codus - Commerical | Love Count
    A code-generation tool that will generate a complete data-access layer, including entities, data-access objects, and even NUnit tests.
    Tags:
      Chapter 5
      Code Generation


  • ColorMania - Free | Love Count
    Color picker that gives you complete control over color selection and modification
    Tags:
      graphics
      Chapter 23
      color


  • CommandPromptHere - Free | Love Count
    Open a command window with all the environment variables set for Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 just by right-clicking
    Tags:
      Chapter 23
      command-prompt


  • Community Server - Free | Love Count
    Platform for quickly and easily enabling an interactive community site
    Tags:
      Chapter 13
      collaboration
      communication
      blog
      forum


  • Conchango XML Visualizer - Free | Love Count
    Provide a better view of your variables while debugging and add functionality to the debugging experience
    Tags:
      XML
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      visualizer


  • ConnectionStrings.com - Free | Love Count
    Easy-to-use reference for finding common datasource connection strings
    Tags:
      Chapter 20
      SQL
      database
      connection


  • ControlSpy - Commerical | Love Count
    Makes it easy to dig into the native Windows controls, gain a better understanding of how they work by watching messages and notifications, and tweak styles
    Tags:
      UI
      windows forms
      Chapter 2
      controls
      troubleshoot


  • CoolCommands - Free | Love Count
    Visual Studio add-in that provides several handy tricks and shortcuts to speed up small tasks.
    Tags:
      Visual Studio
      ide
      Chapter 8
      prodcutivity


  • CopySourceAsHtml - Free | Love Count
    Copies your source code from Visual Studio's editors including formatting and styling to the clipboard, making it very easy to insert styled snippets into blogs or documentation.
    Tags:
      Visual Studio
      productivity
      ide
      Chapter 8
      source code


  • CR_Metrics - Open Source | Love Count
    Handy tool for quickly examining assembly and file metrics inside Visual Studio
    Tags:
      Chapter 9
      Code Analysis


  • Cropper - Open Source | Love Count
    Elegant screen-capture utility with many handy features
    Tags:
      graphics
      Chapter 23
      screenshot


  • CruiseControl.NET - Open Source | Love Count
    Tie together every developer’s work via automated build and testing processes to get a constantly updated picture of your project’s health
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 12
      automated build
      continuous integration


  • CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters - Free | Love Count
    Lets you get better HTML out of your ASP.NET controls, making it easier to style them with CSS
    Tags:
      Chapter 1
      Web Development
      CSS


  • CSS Properties Window - Free | Love Count
    Edit CSS properties at all levels with Visual Studio.
    Tags:
      Visual Studio
      CSS
      ide
      Chapter 8


  • Cygwin - Open Source | Love Count
    Provides a POSIX compatibility layer to allow building of POSIX-compliant applications
    Tags:
      Linux
      Chapter 23
      command-prompt
      posix
      awk
      sed
      grep


  • DockPanel Suite - Open Source | Love Count
    Bring Visual Studio–like docking panels to your Windows Forms applications
    Tags:
      UI
      windows forms
      Chapter 2
      controls


  • DOM Helper - Free | Love Count
    Explorer bar for IE that allows developers to easily identify and correct issues in problem web pages
    Tags:
      Web Development
      IE
      Chapter
      22


  • Dotfuscator Community Edition - Free | Love Count
    Performs basic obfuscation on .NET assemblies
    Tags:
      Chapter 16
      il
      cil
      msil
      decompiler
      obfuscation


  • Dotnet IL Editor (DILE) - Open Source | Love Count
    Standalone application that allows disassembling and debugging of .NET assemblies on an IL level
    Tags:
      Editor
      Chapter 16
      il
      cil
      msil
      decompiler
      debugger


  • DotNetNuke - Open Source | Love Count
    Robust, flexible framework system for developing web applications
    Tags:
      Web Development
      Chapter 18
      Framework


  • Drip - Open Source | Love Count
    Easy-to-use memory leak detector that keeps track of HTML DOM objects used by IE. Allows you to inspect browser memory usage and detect leaking objects.
    Tags:
      Web Development
      Chapter 22
      IE
      memory leak
      object disposal


  • Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 - Free | Love Count
    Common infrastructure components for enterprise applications
    Tags:
      Chapter 18
      Framework


  • ExcelXmlWriter - Free | Love Count
    Generate Excel files from any data source. Online code-generation tool greatly simplifies creation of classes.
    Tags:
      XML
      Chapter 4
      Excel


  • eXml - Open Source | Love Count
    ASP.NET 2.0 server control that can be used to display either raw or transformed XML on the Web
    Tags:
      XML
      Chapter 19
      web server control


  • EXSLT - Free | Love Count
    Implements XSLT extension functions defined in the EXSLT community initiative, including date/time, math, regular expression, set, and string functions
    Tags:
      XML
      extension
      Chapter 19
      xslt
      transform


  • Fiddler - Free | Love Count
    HTTP debugging proxy that helps to troubleshoot calls made across the network, including calls to web applications and web services, .NET remoting calls, and more
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      sniffer
      trace


  • FileMon - Free | Love Count

    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      file access
      troubleshooting


  • FileZilla - Open Source | Love Count
    Simple yet powerful FTP client
    Tags:
      Chapter 23
      ftp
      upload
      download


  • FitNesse - Open Source | Love Count
    An acceptance-testing framework written as a Wiki that supports test-driven development
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      testing
      acceptance test
      wiki


  • FlexWiki - Open Source | Love Count
    Easy to set up and use Wiki software to bring your team together
    Tags:
      wiki
      Chapter 13
      collaboration
      documentation
      faq


  • FreeTextBox - Commerical | Love Count
    An HTML editor web control that lets you easily add word-processor-like functionality to your applications
    Tags:
      Chapter 1
      Web Development
      Editor


  • FxCop - Free | Love Count
    Invaluable tool for checking if .NET assemblies conform to well-established design guidelines. Can be used by automated build and continuous integration processes.
    Tags:
      Chapter 9
      Code Analysis
      Microsoft


  • GhostDoc - Free | Love Count
    Visual Studio add-in for automatically generating XML documentation comments, either by using existing documentation inherited from base classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from the names and types of methods, properties, parameters, etc.
    Tags:
      documentation
      Chapter 7
      generation
      automation


  • HTML Titdy - Free | Love Count
    Free open source web (or desktop) tool that will parse your HTML and correct any issues that it encounters
    Tags:
      Web Development
      Chapter 22
      HTML
      Validation


  • HTML/ASP.NET Spell Checker - Free | Love Count
    Visual Studio 2005 add-in that allows the user to proof spelling of text in HTML and ASP.NET pages.
    Tags:
      Visual Studio
      ide
      Chapter 8
      Spell Check


  • ILDASM - Free | Love Count
    A tool that enables you to examine the IL code generated by .NET compilers
    Tags:
      Chapter 16
      il
      cil
      msil
      ildasm
      decompiler


  • iTextSharp - Open Source | Love Count
    Full-featured PDF library for creating, reading, and working with Adobe’s PDF document format
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 4
      PDF


  • Krypton Toolbar - Partial Free | Love Count
    Create applications with the look and feel of Office 2003. Designed to combine deep customization with ease of use.
    Tags:
      UI
      windows forms
      Chapter 2
      controls


  • Less MSIérables - Free | Love Count
    A tool to view and extract the contents of Windows Installer files
    Tags:
      Chapter 23
      setup
      msi


  • log4net - Open Source | Love Count
    Application logging framework for .NET
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 4
      logging


  • LogParser - Free | Love Count
    Tool for querying a variety of common text-based data sources and persisting output in various formats
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      logfile


  • Lucene.Net - Open Source | Love Count
    .NET-based search engine API for indexing and searching contents
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 4
      search
      index


  • Magnifixer - Free | Love Count
    Utility to magnify any part of your screen to see details on the pixel level
    Tags:
      Chapter 23
      presentation
      screen
      zoom


  • MakeMeAdmin.cmd - Free | Love Count
    Provides access to a command window with Admin privileges
    Tags:
      Chapter 17
      security
      non-admin
      privilege
      logon


  • Managed Stack Explorer - Free | Love Count
    Lightweight tool that provides a quick and easy way to monitor .NET 2.0 managed processes and their stacks
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      debugging
      stack trace


  • MbUnit - Open Source | Love Count
    Extensible unit-test framework with impressive support for data-driven,combinatorial,and other testing types. Many unique features distinguish it from other test frameworks.
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      testing


  • Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library - Free | Love Count
    Library of functions used for encoding user input to guard against cross-site scripting attacks
    Tags:
      web
      Chapter 17
      security
      cross-site scripting
      ASP.NET


  • Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer - Commerical | Love Count
    A UI designer developed for creating .NET 3.0 applications. Provides the ability to add 3D images and multimedia content to applications targeting the WPF and to edit the look and feel of almost any control by changing its template. Uses a timeline concept to represent animations and interactivity for the user experience.
    Tags:
      Chapter 3
      WPF
      graphics
      designer


  • Microsoft Expressions Graphic Designer - Commerical | Love Count
    Full-featured tool for creating and editing vector- and pixel-based graphics. Supports the most common image formats and has the ability to export images as XAML. Developed for professional designers.
    Tags:
      Chapter 3
      WPF
      graphics
      designer


  • Microsoft Service Trace Viewer - Free | Love Count
    Consolidate and view trace and message logs in one clear UI, and see the exact message and communication flow between WCF components
    Tags:
      trace
      Chapter 3
      WCF
      service
      log
      viewer


  • Microsoft Threat Analysis and Modeling Tool - Free | Love Count
    Tool to help in the creation and assimilation of threat models
    Tags:
      Chapter 17
      threat analysis
      threat modeling
      security


  • Microsoft XML Diff and Patch - Free | Love Count
    Command-line tools and assembly for comparing XML files, creating diffgrams representing differences between XML files, and applying those diffgrams to patch XML files
    Tags:
      XML
      diff
      Chapter 19
      change
      delta
      test


  • Mono - Open Source | Love Count
    A cross-platform framework capable of running client and server .NET applications in Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unix varieties
    Tags:
      Chapter 18
      Framework
      Mono
      Linux


  • MonoDevelop - Open Source | Love Count
    An open source IDE for GNOME-based Linux and Mac OS X
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Editor
      Chapter 6
      write code
      ide


  • MSBee - Open Source | Love Count
    Addition to MSBuild that allows developers to build managed applications that target .NET 1.1
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 12
      automated build
      continuous integration
      msbuild


  • MSBuild - Free | Love Count
    Manage your project’s builds and tie into automated continuous integration processes
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 12
      automated build
      continuous integration


  • MSBuild Community Tasks - Open Source | Love Count
    A collection of community-written tasks that add functionality to MSBuild, including the ability to call FxCop, NDoc, NUnit, and much more
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 12
      automated build
      continuous integration
      msbuild


  • MSBuild Sidekick - Free | Love Count
    A visual editor for creating and managing MSBuild and TFS Build Type files
    Tags:
      Chapter 12
      automated build
      continuous integration
      msbuild


  • MyGeneration - Free | Love Count
    A flexible template-based code generator with a generic metadata provider supporting over 12 major databases. Comes with dOOdads, a popular open source O/RM architecture written by the MyGeneration team.
    Tags:
      Chapter 5
      Code Generation


  • NAnt - Open Source | Love Count
    Automate nearly all processes for your builds, tests, and deployment
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 12
      automated build
      continuous integration


  • NCover - Free | Love Count
    Monitors a .NET program while it is running and reports which lines of code were executed and which were not
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Metrics
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      testing
      code coverage


  • NCoverExplorer - Open Source | Love Count
    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.
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Metrics
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      testing
      code coverage


  • NDepend - Commerical | Love Count
    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.
    Tags:
      Chapter 9
      Code Analysis


  • NDoc - Free | Love Count
    Create API documentation from .NET assemblies and XML documentation files
    Tags:
      documentation
      Chapter 7
      generation
      automation


  • NHibernate - Open Source | Love Count
    Full-featured .NET open source O/RM tool
    Tags:
      Chapter 21
      object relational mapper
      OR/M


  • Notepad2 - Open Source | Love Count
    A lightweight, powerful text editor offering syntax highlighting for many different languages
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Editor
      Chapter 6
      write code


  • NPersist - Open Source | Love Count
    Open source O/RM tool for .NET applications. Differs from NHibernate in that it provides more features for a small trade in performance.
    Tags:
      Chapter 21
      object relational mapper
      OR/M


  • NProf - Open Source | Love Count
    Simple profiler for finding bottlenecks in .NET apps. Supports ASP.NET profiling.
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      bottleneck
      performance
      Open Source
      troubleshooting


  • NProf - Free | Love Count
    Simple profiler for finding bottlenecks in .NET apps. Supports ASP.NET profiling.
    Tags:
      Code Analysis
      Chapter 15
      bottleneck
      performance
      Open Source


  • NSort - Free | Love Count
    A collection of sorting algorithms in an extensible framework
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 4
      difference
      compare


  • nsxlt2 - Open Source | Love Count
    Feature-rich command-line utility for transforming XML documents using XSLT
    Tags:
      XML
      Chapter 19
      xslt
      transform


  • NTime - Free | Love Count
    Easy framework for getting simple timing statistics to identity potential problem areas in your software
    Tags:
      performance
      Chapter 10
      unit test


  • NUnit - Open Source | Love Count
    A tool for writing and running unit tests in .NET code
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      testing


  • NUnit Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005 - Free | Love Count
    Save significant time by using a few keystrokes to generate annoyingly repetitive,commonplace NUnit code
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      testing
      snippets
      productivity


  • NUnitForms - Open Source | Love Count
    Makes it easy to write automated unit tests for your Windows Forms and control classes
    Tags:
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      windows forms


  • NxBRE - Open Source | Love Count
    Software component for executing business rules expressed in XML. Usable in standalone or multithreaded systems.
    Tags:
      Chapter 4
      code library
      rules engine


  • Object Mapper - Open Source | Love Count
    Excellent tool for quickly generating class and XML mapping files for O/RM frameworks. Also enables you to work in the other direction, starting withUML diagrams and moving through classes to databasecreation scripts.
    Tags:
      Chapter 21
      object relational mapper
      OR/M


  • OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework - Partial Free | Love Count
    Application framework to extend .NET CF
    Tags:
      Chapter 18
      Compact Framework


  • Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET - Free | Love Count
    A tightly integrated add-in bringing the Oracle database inside Visual Studio
    Tags:
      Chapter 20
      database
      Oracle
      manager
      tool


  • Oracle SQL Developer - Free | Love Count
    Free graphical PL/SQL IDE for database development
    Tags:
      ide
      Chapter 20
      database
      Oracle
      manager
      tool


  • PDF Creator - Free | Love Count
    Print PDF files from any application. Also supports creating other graphics formats.
    Tags:
      documentation
      Chapter 7
      generation


  • Peli's Reflector Addins - Free | Love Count
    Create dependency graphs and code metrics from within Reflector
    Tags:
      Chapter 9
      Code Analysis
      Reflector


  • PicoContainer.NET - Open Source | Love Count
    A lightweight Dependency Injection framework with no requirement or dependency on XML files for configurations
    Tags:
      Chapter 18
      Inversion of Control
      IOC


  • Pidgin (formerly GAIM) - Open Source | Love Count
    Open-source instant messaging application that works with Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Jabber, and more.
    Tags:
      Chapter 13
      collaboration
      IM


  • Ping Plotter - Free | Love Count
    Small, low-overhead traceroute tool to help you quickly and visually identify where network slowdowns are occurring
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      network
      trace


  • PowerShell - Free | Love Count
    An interactive command-line shell and complete scripting environment
    Tags:
      Chapter 23
      command-prompt
      automate


  • PowerShell IDE - Free | Love Count
    Excellent IDE letting you work much more efficiently with PowerShell
    Tags:
      Chapter 23
      command-prompt
      powershell


  • PowerToys for the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and Distributed System Designers - Free | Love Count
    Improves usability and features of the Class and Distributed Systems Designers
    Tags:
      Visual Studio
      productivity
      ide
      Chapter 8


  • PrivBar - Free | Love Count
    Lets you immediately see each Explorer window’s privilege level
    Tags:
      Chapter 17
      security
      non-admin
      privilege


  • Process Explorer - Free | Love Count
    Great tool for getting details on processes, the resources they use, and system performance
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      file access
      troubleshooting
      registry
      process
      handle


  • Reflector - Free | Love Count
    A great tool for exploring APIs in an assembly and learning more about how that assembly is used
    Tags:
      Chapter 16
      il
      cil
      msil
      decompiler


  • Reflector.Diff - Free | Love Count
    Reflector add-in for showing differences between assemblies
    Tags:
      Chapter 4
      difference
      compare


  • Regex Kit Visualizers - Free | Love Count
    Provide a better view of your variables while debugging and add functionality to the debugging experience
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      regex
      visualizer


  • RegMon - Free | Love Count
    Provides a real-time display of all registry-access attempts. Highly configurable, extremely flexible, and uses the same general user interface as other great Sysinternals tools.
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      registry


  • ReguLazy - Free | Love Count
    Create regular expressions visually
    Tags:
      Chapter 6
      regular expression
      regex


  • Remote Assistance - Free | Love Count
    Basic peer-to-peer remote control and remote screenviewing utility
    Tags:
      Chapter 13
      collaboration
      remote administration


  • Rhino.Mocks - Open Source | Love Count
    Solid mock-object library supporting strongly typed mock objects with a host of other handy features
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      testing
      mock objects


  • Rotor (Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure) - Partial Free | Love Count
    Open source implementation of the ECMA-standard Common Language Infrastructure and ECMA-standard C# language spec
    Tags:
      Chapter 18
      Framework
      Shared Source


  • RSS Toolkit - Open Source | Love Count
    Includes a plethora of RSS-related features, including an RSS data source, an HTTP handler, and an object model
    Tags:
      Chapter 1
      Web Development
      RSS
      feed


  • RSS.NET - Open Source | Love Count
    A simple library written in C# to make publishing and consuming RSS feeds even easier
    Tags:
      Open Source
      RSS
      Chapter 4


  • Selenium - Open Source | Love Count
    Automate web testing, including browser-compatibility and functionality tests
    Tags:
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      web


  • Service Configuration Editor - Free | Love Count
    Create and maintain complex configurations for WCF applications without having to deal with XML files
    Tags:
      Editor
      Chapter 3
      WCF
      service
      configuration


  • SharpDevelop - Open Source | Love Count
    An Integrated Development Environment for .NET applications written in C#, Visual Basic, and Boo
    Tags:
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      Editor
      Chapter 6
      write code
      ide


  • skmFAQs - Free | Love Count
    Framework and sample web site enabling you to build a user-controlled FAQ system
    Tags:
      documentation
      faq
      Chapter 7


  • Skype - Free | Love Count
    Collaborate with voice and video over any IP connection.
    Tags:
      Chapter 13
      collaboration
      voice
      video


  • SlickRun - Free | Love Count
    Floating command line with customizable “Magic- Word” shortcuts
    Tags:
      productivity
      Chapter 23
      command-line
      hotkey


  • Snippet Compiler - Free | Love Count

    Tags:
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      Chapter 6
      write code
      snippet


  • SourceMonitor - Free | Love Count
    Lightweight, customizable, easy-to-use tool for gathering metrics on several languages. Can be used by automated build and CI processes.
    Tags:
      Chapter 9
      Code Analysis


  • SourceSafe Binding Remover - Open Source | Love Count
    Cleans all SourceSafe bindings from your source tree, enabling you to quickly and cleanly distribute code folders
    Tags:
      source control
      Chapter 11
      Open Source
      Visual Studio
      SourceSafe


  • SQL Server Connection String Builder - Free | Love Count
    Tiny application to bail you out when you need an SQL connection string
    Tags:
      Chapter 20
      SQL
      database
      connection


  • Subtext - Open Source | Love Count
    Powerful full-featured blogging engine
    Tags:
      Chapter 13
      collaboration
      blog


  • SVN 1-Click Setup - Open Source | Love Count
    Simple tool to install and configure a Subversion repository.
    Tags:
      source control
      Chapter 11
      Open Source
      subversion


  • SyncToy - Free | Love Count
    Helps you synchronize folders on two different systems
    Tags:
      Chapter 23
      synchronize
      backup


  • TaskSwitchXP - Free | Love Count
    An advanced Alt-Tab replacement with thumbnail previews and advanced task-management capabilities
    Tags:
      Chapter 23
      task switch


  • TCPView - Free | Love Count
    Elegant, simple tool for identifying potential port conflicts and other TCP/IP problems
    Tags:
      Chapter 15
      troubleshooting
      network
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  • Team Foundation Server Admininstration Tool - Free | Love Count
    Administration tool for managing user permissions across the three server platforms utilized by TFS
    Tags:
      Chapter 13
      Team Foundation Server
      TFS


  • TestDriven.NET - Partial Free | Love Count
    Integrates unit-testing functionality directly into Visual Studio
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Metrics
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      testing
      test runner
      code coverage


  • The Regulator - Open Source | Love Count
    Write and test regular expressions easily
    Tags:
      Chapter 6
      regular expression
      regex


  • TortoiseCVS - Open Source | Love Count
    Provide GUI interface into CVS and Windows Explorer shell extensions
    Tags:
      Open Source
      CVS


  • TortoiseSVN - Open Source | Love Count
    Provide GUI interfaces into Subversion via Windows Explorer shell extensions
    Tags:
      source control
      Chapter 11
      Open Source
      subversion


  • Trac - Open Source | Love Count
    Ties your issue-tracking system into a Wiki to enhance communication about your software, and ties all that together with your Subversion repository to track exactly what’s going on with the code
    Tags:
      Chapter 14
      bug tracker
      defects
      bugs
      tracker


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    Web application deployment tool
    Tags:
      Chapter 12
      deployment


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    Helps you quickly find which processes are locking files of interest, and kill those processes if needed
    Tags:
      process
      Chapter 23
      files
      lock


  • UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite - Open Source | Love Count
    An open source library that enables you to rewrite URLs with ASP.NET 2.0
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Web Development
      URL rewriting


  • Vil - Free | Love Count
    Provides analysis and metrics of .NET assemblies, classes, and methods.
    Tags:
      Code Analysis


  • Visual Studio "Orcas" Extensions - Free | Love Count
    Visual Studio extension for developing WinFx/.NET 3.0 applications. Provides the necessary designer and tools for creating user interfaces based on XAML. Includes XAML IntelliSense, project templates for WPF project types, and a visual designer for WPF applications.
    Tags:
      Visual Studio
      Chapter 3
      WPF
      WCF
      extension


  • Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects - Free | Love Count
    Adds the old Visual Studio 2003 Web Application Projects to Visual Studio 2005, to enable better management of web projects for enterprise applications. (Now included in VS2005 Service Pack 1.)
    Tags:
      Visual Studio
      ide
      Chapter 8
      web application


  • Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects - Commerical | Love Count
    Eases ASP.NET deployment in Visual Studio 2005
    Tags:
      Chapter 12
      deployment


  • Visual Studio Content Installer Power Toys - Free | Love Count
    Power Toy that let you quickly and easily package Visual Studio extensions for easy distribution.
    Tags:
      Visual Studio
      ide
      Chapter 8


  • Visual Studio Express Editions - Commerical | Love Count
    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.
    Tags:
      Editor
      Chapter 6
      write code
      ide


  • VSWindowManager - Free | Love Count
    Quickly switch between configured window layouts in Visual Studio using this easy-to-use add-in.
    Tags:
      Visual Studio
      productivity
      ide
      Chapter 8


  • W3C Markup Validation Service - Free | Love Count
    Advanced markup validation service from the organization responsible for the validation rules. Validates by URL, file upload, or direct markup input.
    Tags:
      Web Development
      Chapter 22
      HTML
      Validation


  • Watir - Free | Love Count
    A Ruby library for end-to-end automated testing of web applications through the browser
    Tags:
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      web
      ruby


  • Web Developer Extension for Firefox - Open Source | Love Count
    Must-have Firefox extension for web developers. Gives you complete control over the browser, helping you develop and test your pages.
    Tags:
      Web Development
      extension
      tool
      Chapter 22
      Internet Explorer
      IE


  • Web Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer - Free | Love Count
    You think the Web Developer Extension for Firefox is cool? Get the same power in IE.
    Tags:
      Web Development
      extension
      Chapter 22
      Firefox


  • Web Development Helper - Free | Love Count
    An IE plug-in to improve the developer experience for Ajax and rich web applications
    Tags:
      Web Development
      AJAX
      Chapter 22


  • WebChart - Free | Love Count
    A freely available charting control that, though it might not include all the features of commercial controls, handles creating standard charts in excellent fashion
    Tags:
      Chapter 1
      Web Development
      chart


  • WebXACT - Free | Love Count
    Free online service primarily focused on accessibility. Also provides validation and privacy summaries.
    Tags:
      Chapter 22
      HTML
      Validation
      Web Developmet


  • WinMerge - Open Source | Love Count
    Quickly and easily track down differences in files and merge changes between versions
    Tags:
      source control
      Chapter 11
      Open Source


  • WiX - Open Source | Love Count
    Toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 12
      deployment
      installation


  • WSCF - Free | Love Count
    A Visual Studio add-in that provides a number of wizards and code-generation tools that make it easier to create web services contracts before writing the code.
    Tags:
      Web Services
      Chapter 5
      Code Generation


  • XAMLPad - Free | Love Count
    Edit XAML in a text editor with a real-time visual display of the results as you type
    Tags:
      Editor
      Chapter 3
      WPF
      graphics
      XAML


  • XInclude.NET - Open Source | Love Count
    Implements the XInclude standard, which allows you to include a text or XML document in an XML document
    Tags:
      XML
      Chapter 19
      include


  • XP Common Controls - Free | Love Count
    A collection of free Windows XP UI controls
    Tags:
      UI
      windows forms
      Chapter 2
      controls


  • XPointer.NET - Open Source | Love Count
    Implements the XPointer standard, which allows you to reference a fragment of an XML document
    Tags:
      XML
      Chapter 19
      xpointer


  • XSD.exe - Free | Love Count
    Quickly and easily generate classes from schema and/or generate schema from classes
    Tags:
      Chapter 5
      XML
      Code Generation


  • XSDObjectGenerator - Free | Love Count
    Reads an XML schema and generates C# or Visual Basic classes that use XML serialization to read and write XML
    Tags:
      XML
      Chapter 19
      XSD
      schema
      serialization


  • Zanebug - Free | Love Count
    Fast test runner with great control over how tests execute; gives tremendous amounts of performancerelated data
    Tags:
      Open Source
      Chapter 10
      unit test
      testing
      test runner


  • ZoomIt - Free | Love Count
    Simple zoom tool with a drawingfeature for marking up portions of your screen during presentations
    Tags:
      Chapter 23
      presentation
      screen
      zoom