What Is Your Complete ASP.net Development Environment?

Question

I assume that the basic setup for ASP.net web development today is:

1. Windows Vista (or XP)
2. Visual Studio 2008
3. SQL Server 2005
4. IIS 7
5. The .net Framework v3.5

So, what combination of tools, addons, libraries, etc do you always install to increase your productivity and support your development?

For me, it is always:

• Ubuntu LAMP server
• Subversion
• TRAC
• The asp.net AJAX toolkit
• JQuery
• JQuery intellisense
• Free Text Box
• Firebug
• TortoiseSVN
• Notepad++
• cygwin

I'd be very interested to know what your 'complete' development environment looks like today.

Edit - Added some more tools I forgot and made it a community wiki. Thanks for all the answers!

Answer 1

Platform

• Windows Server 2008 x64
• IIS 7
• Web Platform Installer
• PHP
• .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 SP1
• IE8 (JS Console is great!) + Firefox (FireBug)
• SQL Server 2008

Dev

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• Resharper 4
• TFS and / or SourceGear Vault
• Notepad++
• .NET Reflector
• ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
• jQuery (cannot live without it)

SharePoint

• MOSS 2007 (Enterprise) (SP2)
• SharePoint Designer 2007
• Stramit CAML Viewer
• U2U CAMLBuilder
• VSeWSS 1.3
• WSPBuilder
• Telerik RadEditor fior SharePoint
• jQuery (cannot live without it)

Answer 2

basic, plus:

• SuperPreview
• LinqPad for linq to sql
• DbDeploy (database versioning)

Answer 3

Added to your basics

• NUnit Framework
• Castle Windsor (Inversion of Control container)
• NHibernate ORM with Fluent NHibernate
• Resharper TestDriven.net NBehave (for BDD style unit testing)
• Subversion
• Tortoise SVN (windows integration for subversion)
• Visual SVN (for VS integration for subversion and subversion server management)
• Castle Validators
• Firebug
• Team City (for continuous integration)
• Rhino Mocks (for mocking and stubs)
• JQuery and various plugins
• Rake for automatic building on new projects and NANT on legacy projects
• Red gate SQL Compaire and SQL Data Compaire (essental for moving database around)
• Auto Mapper (converting domain models to Data transfer objects)
• Log4Net for logging

Answer 4

• Windows Vista (Please let Win7 be as good as people are saying)
• IIS 7
• .Net 3.5
• VS 2008
• SourceGear
• CruiseControl (just got it setup and loving it)
• Resharper (CAN NOT live without)
• StyleCop (Just started using it, what a pain but it'll pay off in the end)
• FxCop ( See StyleCop comment)
• Firebug (Resisted at first...have no idea why)
• Telerik Ajax Suite (Pricey and bloated...but pretty to look at)
• Notepad++ (Quick and painless)
• Free SMTP Server (No SMTP server on Vista)
• Nunit (Like it...wish I was a guru and will use more and more)
• Reflector ("So...how did the smart guys do it...")
• CAT.NET (stay away evil doers)
• Ritalin ("Thank the maker")

Answer 5

Here is my basic setup:

• Windows XP Pro SP3
• IIS 5.1
• .Net 2.0,3.0, and 3.5
• VS 2008
• Subversion(new code), Viusal SourceSafe (legacy code)
• CruiseControl
• Resharper
• nAnt

Process overview points

• Agile
• Scrum
• XP
• TDD

Answer 6

The basic, plus

• TortoiseSVN
• AnkhSVN
• PowerCommands
• JQuery
• Some various JQuery Plugins
• The FCKEditor
• AJAX Tool Kit
• MySQL I also have SQL Sever 2005
• WinMerge
• Paint .NET
• Notepad2
• Pixie
• Star UML
• Snippet Designer

Answer 7

Hmm. Similar to above

Professionally:

• XP / Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6)
• VS2008 Standard
• SQL Server 2005
• NUnit
• jQuery
• TinyMCE
• Visual Source Safe (eeek!!)
• SQL Effects Clarity
• GhostDoc
• Fiddler
• Beyond Compare (best of the lot)

Personally:

• Vista / Ubuntu
• MySql 5
• VS2008 / MonoDevelop
• Subversion

And how could I forget, .NET reflector

Answer 8

Basic plus:

• WinMerge
• CodeSmith Pro (mainly for use with NetTiers templates)
• Some Red Gate tools (SQL Compare v.useful)
• .NET Reflector (also from RedGate now)
• Subversion / TortoiseSVN
• Web Developer plugin for Firefox
• Fiddler

& WinAmp :)

Answer 9

The basic plus:

• Resharper
• Subversion
• AJAX Tool Kit
• FCKEditor
• Reflector
• Re-Motion (re-motion)
• Test-Driven .Net
• HTTPWatch
• DotNetTrace
• FitNesse

Answer 10

Windows XP Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 SQL SErver 2005 IIS 6 .NET Framework 3.5

• ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit
• ComponentArt WebUI components
• BasicDatePicker
• ReSharper
• SQL Toolbelt by RedGate Software