Greg Young

Tools every C# developer should know about

1. A persistence layer i.e. Gentle.Net http://sourceforge.net/projects/gopf nHibernate http://www.nhibernate.org/

2. A Prevalence layer Bamboo http://bbooprevalence.sourceforge.net/ PrevLayer http://www.prevayler.org/

3. Unit testing framework nUnit http://www.nunit.org/

4. Build tool Nant http://nant.sourceforge.net/

5. A tool with XML documentation integration nDoc (sparx also provides one for models) http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndoc/

6. Continuous Integration http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/

7. UML Modelling with round tripping to/from source http://sparxsystems.com.au/

8. CVS or SourceSafe (I prefer CVS)

9. IE dev toolbar http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&DisplayLang=en

10. Mono http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

11. SharpDevelop http://www.sharpdevelop.com/OpenSource/SD/

12. VS integration for nUnit http://www.testdriven.net/

13. GTK# http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/

14. A good XML editor (the fact that this has DTD->XSD conversions is quite useful) http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html

15. A dynamic proxy generator I use my own but castle project has a good one http://castle.sourceforge.net/

16. A template based code generation utility MyGeneration http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/

17. Reflector for .NET http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

18. *added* resharper http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/  or another refactorring tool.

19. *added* nCover

20. *added* fxCop

Thats all, there are numerous other things I install but they are very specific to the projects I work on. What do YOU think should be on this list?

Greg

Print posted @ Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:51 AM