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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Some useful tools for .net developers (Developer productivity tools)



Productivity tools:


Tool
URL
Purpose
Free?

fiddler


Monitor the traffic between the browser and the websites

Yes
Resharper
ReSharper is a renowned productivity tool that makes Microsoft Visual Studio a much better IDE.
30 day trial
lumzy
Create  mock ups for websites for the clients to view and approve before you actually start building the website.
Yes
Beyond Compare
A very useful   tool for comparing differences in files and folders.
30 day trial
Collapse all   projects within visual studio
An extension   for Visual studio that would minimize (collapse) all the projects
Yes
ANTS Memory Profiler 
Find memory   leaks in your .net application
14 day trial
SQL formatter
An online tool   for formatting your SQL code
Yes
SQL Comments

An online tool for creating SQL flower box comments
Yes
ie developer toolbar
The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages
Yes
dual monitor taskbar





If you use 2 monitors with this tool, you can have a task bar on the second monitor too.
Yes
CLR Profiler





The CLR Profiler allows developers to see the allocation profile of their managed applications.
Yes
Test Driven .net

http://www.testdriven.net/Enables you to run gallio unit tests from within Visual studio (as opposed to using Icarus GUI test runner)Yes
Wireshark
Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. 
Yes
EPPlus
EPPlus is a .net library that reads and writes Excel 2007/2010 files.
Yes
Sticky Notes
A software that helps you save notes.
Yes
JSON
Viewer
    http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/
An online tool that lets you parse JSON
Yes
Nmap
A tool that scans your local network for open ports and servers.
Yes
dotpeek
Decompiles ,net dlls into C# code
Yes
Windows Sysinternals
Various tools from Microsoft to trouble shoot and diagnose Windows applications.
Yes
Namespaces and the dlls they belong to

Yes
Moment.js
For easier date manipulation in javascript
Yes
SQL Search
A free tool to search all objects within your SQL server databases.
Yes
Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4
WinDbg a multipurpose debugger for Microsoft Windows comes with this installation.
Yes
Linqpad
http://www.linqpad.net/
 Linqpad lets you interactively query databases and OData webservices in LINQ
Basic version is free.


Ready made controls:

Plugin
URL
Purpose
Free

teleric


Ready made UI controls, Productivity tools and data tools

No
Infragistics
UI components and UI testing tools
No


Some other Useful software


Software
URL
Purpose
Free
Gimp
Image editor
Yes
Json.Net
(Newtonsoft.Json)
http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json-net.aspx
Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
Yes
lockhunter
http://lockhunter.com/
A tool to free up locked files so that you can delete them.
Yes





















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