Deltax76
Deltax76

Reputation: 14263

essential tools for .net programmer?

This question looks familiar with this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2187/essential-programming-tools, but I want to focus on .NET programming. Beyond Windows and Visual Studio, which tools are your daily-need to get your job done? Free, open-source code tools are preferred :)

I've been using these tools:

which other tools I should know and use?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1399

Answers (4)

Kurien Zacharia
Kurien Zacharia

Reputation: 1

If you're into serious debugging or programming where you need to convert between Hex and Decimal go for a good converter, this will save lot of time, especially when debugging with error codes in hex etc. See http://onequestionatime.blogspot.in/2012/05/1-what-is-easiest-way-to-convert.html for a fast and easy converter

Upvotes: 0

Kim Tranjan
Kim Tranjan

Reputation: 4541

My recommendations

Firebug

Reflector

Anjlab SQL Server Profiler or even Microsoft SQL Server Profiler

PowerCommands

Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools

Studio Styles

Upvotes: 2

Mitch Rosenburg
Mitch Rosenburg

Reputation: 223

Expresso: Regular expression tool with .NET syntax.

LinqPad: +1 from Hanselmans's post above.

Upvotes: 0

Chris Fulstow
Chris Fulstow

Reputation: 41882

http://www.hanselman.com/tools

Scroll down to section: A (.NET) Developer's Life

Upvotes: 6

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