Tools

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ASP.NET AJAX (formerly "Atlas") - |
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:
  AJAX
  web

Basecamp - |
Manage your projects online with messaging, to-do lists, milestone lists, and more
Tags:
  todo
  Management

Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs - |
APIs for encryption, signature, and certificate generation using a variety of Internet standards
Tags:
  security
  encryption
  certificate

BugTracker.NET - |
Simple to set up and configure, easy to learn and use defect/issue tracker
Tags:
  bugs
  Issues

Bugzilla - |
Feature-rich, powerful, highly customizable defect tracker with an immense user community
Tags:
  bugs
  Issues

Castle ActiveRecord - |
O/RM project that implements the ActiveRecord enterprise pattern. Built on top of NHibernate.
Tags:
  Castle
  DB
  DDD

Castle MonoRail - |
Agile MVC framework for web applications
Tags:
  web
  MVC
  Castle
  DDD

Castle Windsor Container - |
A simple Inversion of Control container that is easily augmented by using facilities
Tags:
  IOC
  Castle

CI Factory - |
Canned CI server able to build most any project out of the box
Tags:
  build
  CI

Conchango XML Visualizer - |
Provide a better view of your variables while debugging and add functionality to the debugging experience
Tags:
  XML
  debugging

Cropper - |
Elegant screen-capture utility with many handy features
Tags:
  screen
  Capture

CruiseControl.NET - |
Tie together every developer’s work via automated build and testing processes to get a constantly updated picture of your project’s health
Tags:
  build
  CI

CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters - |
Lets you get better HTML out of your ASP.NET controls, making it easier to style them with CSS
Tags:
  CSS
  web
  ASP.NET

Cygwin - |
Provides a POSIX compatibility layer to allow building of POSIX-compliant applications
Tags:
  Unix

DockPanel Suite - |
Bring Visual Studio–like docking panels to your Windows Forms applications
Tags:
  Docking
  WinForms

ExcelXmlWriter - |
Generate Excel files from any data source. Online code-generation tool greatly simplifies creation of classes.
Tags:
  tool
  Excel
  Office

EXSLT - |
Implements XSLT extension functions defined in the EXSLT community initiative, including date/time, math, regular expression, set, and string functions
Tags:
  XML
  xslt

Fiddler - |
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:
  web
  network
  debug

FileMon - |

Tags:
  File

FileZilla - |
Simple yet powerful FTP client
Tags:
  ftp

FitNesse - |
An acceptance-testing framework written as a Wiki that supports test-driven development
Tags:
  testing
  TDD

FreeTextBox - |
An HTML editor web control that lets you easily add word-processor-like functionality to your applications
Tags:
  web
  controls

FxCop - |
Invaluable tool for checking if .NET assemblies conform to well-established design guidelines. Can be used by automated build and continuous integration processes.
Tags:
  Analysis

GhostDoc - |
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

iTextSharp - |
Full-featured PDF library for creating, reading, and working with Adobe’s PDF document format
Tags:
  File
  PDF

Less MSIérables - |
A tool to view and extract the contents of Windows Installer files
Tags:
  Install

log4net - |
Application logging framework for .NET
Tags:
  logging

LogParser - |
Tool for querying a variety of common text-based data sources and persisting output in various formats
Tags:
  logging

MbUnit - |
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:
  testing

Microsoft Service Trace Viewer - |
Consolidate and view trace and message logs in one clear UI, and see the exact message and communication flow between WCF components
Tags:
  debugging
  WCF

Microsoft XML Diff and Patch - |
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

MSBuild - |
Manage your project’s builds and tie into automated continuous integration processes
Tags:
  build
  CI

MSBuild Community Tasks - |
A collection of community-written tasks that add functionality to MSBuild, including the ability to call FxCop, NDoc, NUnit, and much more
Tags:
  build
  CI

MyGeneration - |
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:
  CodeGen

NAnt - |
Automate nearly all processes for your builds, tests, and deployment
Tags:
  build
  CI

NCover - |
Monitors a .NET program while it is running and reports which lines of code were executed and which were not
Tags:
  Analysis

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.
Tags:
  Analysis

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.
Tags:
  Analysis
  Dependency

NHibernate - |
Full-featured .NET open source O/RM tool
Tags:
  ORM
  DB
  DDD

NPersist - |
Open source O/RM tool for .NET applications. Differs from NHibernate in that it provides more features for a small trade in performance.
Tags:
  ORM

NProf - |
Simple profiler for finding bottlenecks in .NET apps. Supports ASP.NET profiling.
Tags:
  Analysis
  Profiling

NUnit - |
A tool for writing and running unit tests in .NET code
Tags:
  testing
  TDD

NUnit Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005 - |
Save significant time by using a few keystrokes to generate annoyingly repetitive,commonplace NUnit code
Tags:
  testing
  TDD

NxBRE - |
Software component for executing business rules expressed in XML. Usable in standalone or multithreaded systems.
Tags:
  Rules

Object Mapper - |
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:
  ORM

OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework - |
Application framework to extend .NET CF
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Peli's Reflector Addins - |
Create dependency graphs and code metrics from within Reflector
Tags:
  Reflector

Perfect Storm - |
xslt based code generation utility. The trick is that it can generate batch files and specific entity files from the same model document.
Tags:
  CodeGen

Pidgin (formerly GAIM) - |
Open-source instant messaging application that works with Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Jabber, and more.
Tags:
  IM

PowerShell IDE - |
Excellent IDE letting you work much more efficiently with PowerShell
Tags:
  ide
  powershell

PowerToys for the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and Distributed System Designers - |
Improves usability and features of the Class and Distributed Systems Designers
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Process Explorer - |
Great tool for getting details on processes, the resources they use, and system performance
Tags:
  debugging
  Analysis
  System

Reflector - |
A great tool for exploring APIs in an assembly and learning more about how that assembly is used
Tags:
  debugging
  Analysis

ReguLazy - |
Create regular expressions visually
Tags:
  regex

Rhino.Mocks - |
Solid mock-object library supporting strongly typed mock objects with a host of other handy features
Tags:
  testing
  TDD

RSS Toolkit - |
Includes a plethora of RSS-related features, including an RSS data source, an HTTP handler, and an object model
Tags:
  RSS

RSS.NET - |
A simple library written in C# to make publishing and consuming RSS feeds even easier
Tags:
  RSS

Rule Manager - |
Rule Manager allows the Business User to construct, animate, validate and visualize business rules that requires no programming. Our rule editors use English-friendly constructions and do not require semi-colons, quotes, or other technical constructions. The contruction of rules, interactive rule map, rule aninamtion and the export to RuleML is 100% free.
Tags:
  Rules

Service Configuration Editor - |
Create and maintain complex configurations for WCF applications without having to deal with XML files
Tags:
  WCF

Snippet Compiler - |

Tags:
  snippet

SQL Server Connection String Builder - |
Tiny application to bail you out when you need an SQL connection string
Tags:
  DB
  CONN

SyncToy - |
Helps you synchronize folders on two different systems
Tags:
  diff
  System

TCPView - |
Elegant, simple tool for identifying potential port conflicts and other TCP/IP problems
Tags:
  Networking

Team Foundation Server Admininstration Tool - |
Administration tool for managing user permissions across the three server platforms utilized by TFS
Tags:
  SVN
  TFS

TestDriven.NET - |
Integrates unit-testing functionality directly into Visual Studio
Tags:
  testing
  TDD

The Regulator - |
Write and test regular expressions easily
Tags:
  regex

ToDoList - |
ToDoList is a rare form of task management tool, one that allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces whilst still presenting a clean and intuitive user experience. ToDoList has been in continuous development for the last 4 years and is an ongoing project.
Tags:
  todo
  Management

Trac - |
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:
  bugs
  Issues

Unleash It - |
Web application deployment tool
Tags:
  deployment
  Install

Unlocker - |
Helps you quickly find which processes are locking files of interest, and kill those processes if needed
Tags:
  debugging
  Analysis
  System

Watir - |
A Ruby library for end-to-end automated testing of web applications through the browser
Tags:
  testing
  TDD

Web Developer Extension for Firefox - |
Must-have Firefox extension for web developers. Gives you complete control over the browser, helping you develop and test your pages.
Tags:
  web
  debugging

Web Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer - |
You think the Web Developer Extension for Firefox is cool? Get the same power in IE.
Tags:
  web
  debugging

Web Development Helper - |
An IE plug-in to improve the developer experience for Ajax and rich web applications
Tags:
  web
  debugging

WinMerge - |
Quickly and easily track down differences in files and merge changes between versions
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WiX - |
Toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code
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WSCF - |
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.
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XAMLPad - |
Edit XAML in a text editor with a real-time visual display of the results as you type
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XSDObjectGenerator - |
Reads an XML schema and generates C# or Visual Basic classes that use XML serialization to read and write XML
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ZoomIt - |
Simple zoom tool with a drawingfeature for marking up portions of your screen during presentations
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