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  • Basecamp - Free | Love Count
    Manage your projects online with messaging, to-do lists, milestone lists, and more
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  • CommandPromptHere - Free | Love Count
    Open a command window with all the environment variables set for Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 just by right-clicking
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  • Community Server - Free | Love Count
    Platform for quickly and easily enabling an interactive community site
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  • CoolCommands - Free | Love Count
    Visual Studio add-in that provides several handy tricks and shortcuts to speed up small tasks.
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  • 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.
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  • CR_Metrics - Open Source | Love Count
    Handy tool for quickly examining assembly and file metrics inside Visual Studio
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  • 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
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  • Cygwin - Open Source | Love Count
    Provides a POSIX compatibility layer to allow building of POSIX-compliant applications
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  • DockPanel Suite - Open Source | Love Count
    Bring Visual Studio–like docking panels to your Windows Forms applications
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  • EXSLT - Free | Love Count
    Implements XSLT extension functions defined in the EXSLT community initiative, including date/time, math, regular expression, set, and string functions
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  • 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
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  • FileMon - Free | Love Count

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  • FileZilla - Open Source | Love Count
    Simple yet powerful FTP client
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  • FitNesse - Open Source | Love Count
    An acceptance-testing framework written as a Wiki that supports test-driven development
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  • FlexWiki - Open Source | Love Count
    Easy to set up and use Wiki software to bring your team together
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • HTML Titdy - Free | Love Count
    Free open source web (or desktop) tool that will parse your HTML and correct any issues that it encounters
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  • log4net - Open Source | Love Count
    Application logging framework for .NET
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  • Magnifixer - Free | Love Count
    Utility to magnify any part of your screen to see details on the pixel level
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  • MakeMeAdmin.cmd - Free | Love Count
    Provides access to a command window with Admin privileges
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • MSBuild - Free | Love Count
    Manage your project’s builds and tie into automated continuous integration processes
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  • NAnt - Open Source | Love Count
    Automate nearly all processes for your builds, tests, and deployment
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  • NCover - Free | Love Count
    Monitors a .NET program while it is running and reports which lines of code were executed and which were not
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • NDoc - Free | Love Count
    Create API documentation from .NET assemblies and XML documentation files
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  • NHibernate - Open Source | Love Count
    Full-featured .NET open source O/RM tool
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  • Notepad2 - Open Source | Love Count
    A lightweight, powerful text editor offering syntax highlighting for many different languages
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  • NUnit - Open Source | Love Count
    A tool for writing and running unit tests in .NET code
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • PDF Creator - Free | Love Count
    Print PDF files from any application. Also supports creating other graphics formats.
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  • Peli's Reflector Addins - Free | Love Count
    Create dependency graphs and code metrics from within Reflector
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  • PowerShell - Free | Love Count
    An interactive command-line shell and complete scripting environment
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  • 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
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  • PrivBar - Free | Love Count
    Lets you immediately see each Explorer window’s privilege level
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  • Process Explorer - Free | Love Count
    Great tool for getting details on processes, the resources they use, and system performance
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  • Reflector - Free | Love Count
    A great tool for exploring APIs in an assembly and learning more about how that assembly is used
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  • Reflector.Diff - Free | Love Count
    Reflector add-in for showing differences between assemblies
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  • 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.
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  • ReguLazy - Free | Love Count
    Create regular expressions visually
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  • Rhino.Mocks - Open Source | Love Count
    Solid mock-object library supporting strongly typed mock objects with a host of other handy features
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  • Skype - Free | Love Count
    Collaborate with voice and video over any IP connection.
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  • SlickRun - Free | Love Count
    Floating command line with customizable “Magic- Word” shortcuts
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  • Snippet Compiler - Free | Love Count

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  • SVN 1-Click Setup - Open Source | Love Count
    Simple tool to install and configure a Subversion repository.
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  • TaskSwitchXP - Free | Love Count
    An advanced Alt-Tab replacement with thumbnail previews and advanced task-management capabilities
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  • TestDriven.NET - Partial Free | Love Count
    Integrates unit-testing functionality directly into Visual Studio
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  • The Regulator - Open Source | Love Count
    Write and test regular expressions easily
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  • TortoiseSVN - Open Source | Love Count
    Provide GUI interfaces into Subversion via Windows Explorer shell extensions
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  • Unlocker - Free | Love Count
    Helps you quickly find which processes are locking files of interest, and kill those processes if needed
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  • Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects - Commerical | Love Count
    Eases ASP.NET deployment in Visual Studio 2005
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  • VSWindowManager - Free | Love Count
    Quickly switch between configured window layouts in Visual Studio using this easy-to-use add-in.
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  • Watir - Free | Love Count
    A Ruby library for end-to-end automated testing of web applications through the browser
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  • WinMerge - Open Source | Love Count
    Quickly and easily track down differences in files and merge changes between versions
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  • Zanebug - Free | Love Count
    Fast test runner with great control over how tests execute; gives tremendous amounts of performancerelated data
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  • ZoomIt - Free | Love Count
    Simple zoom tool with a drawingfeature for marking up portions of your screen during presentations
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