| Name |
Description |
License |
| 7-Zip |
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. |
Free |
| AnkhSVN |
Subversion support for Visual Studio. It also works with VS2010. |
Free |
| Aurora XAML Designer |
One of the best XAML creation tools available. Has a ton of built in templates that you can copy/paste into VS2010. |
COST/Trial |
| BeyondCompare |
Beyond Compare 3 is the ideal tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows or Linux system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them. |
COST/Trial |
| BuildIT Automated Task Tool |
Its main purpose is to automate tasks, whether it is the final packaging of a product, an automated daily build, maybe sending out a mailing list, even backing-up files. |
Free |
| C Sharper for VB |
Convert VB to C#. |
COST |
| CLRProfiler |
Analyze and improve the behavior of your .NET app. |
Free |
| CodeRush |
Direct competitor to ReSharper, contains similar feature. This is one of those decide for yourself. |
COST/Trial |
| Disk2VHD |
Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). |
Free |
| Eazfuscator.NET |
Is a free obfuscator for .NET. The main purpose is to protect intellectual property of software. |
Free |
| ELMAH |
ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application-wide error logging facility that is completely pluggable. It can be dynamically added to a running ASP.NET web application, or even all ASP.NET web applications on a machine, without any need for re-compilation or re-deployment. |
Free |
| EQATEC Profiler |
Make your .NET app run faster. No source code changes are needed. Just point the profiler to your app, run the modified code, and get a visual report. |
Free |
| Expression Studio 3/4 |
Comes with Web, Blend, Sketch Flow and more. You can create websites, produce beautiful XAML and more. |
COST/Trial |
| Expresso |
The award-winning Expresso editor is equally suitable as a teaching tool for the beginning user of regular expressions or as a full-featured development environment for the experienced programmer or web designer with an extensive knowledge of regular expressions. |
Free |
| Fiddler |
Fiddler is a web debugging proxy which logs all HTTP(s) traffic between your computer and the internet. |
Free |
| Firebug |
Powerful Web development tool. If you build websites, you will need this. |
Free |
| FxCop |
FxCop is an application that analyzes managed code assemblies (code that targets the .NET Framework common language runtime) and reports information about the assemblies, such as possible design, localization, performance, and security improvements. |
Free |
| GAC Browser and Remover |
Easy way to remove multiple assemblies from the GAC. Assemblies registered by programs like Install Shield can also be removed. |
Free |
| GAC Util |
The Global Assembly Cache tool allows you to view and manipulate the contents of the global assembly cache and download cache. |
Free |
| HelpScribble |
Help Scribble is a full-featured, easy-to-use help authoring tool for creating help files from start to finish. You can create Win Help (.hlp) files, HTML Help (.chm) files, a printed manual and online documentation (on a web site) all from the same Help Scribble project. |
COST/Trial |
| IETester |
IETester is a free Web Browser that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE9 preview, IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. |
Free |
| iTextSharp |
iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library for PDF generation written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. Use the iText mailing list to get support. |
Free |
| Kaxaml |
Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor that gives you a "split view" so you can see both your XAML and your rendered content. |
Free |
| LINQPad |
LinqPad lets you interactively query databases in a LINQ. |
Free |
| Linquer |
Many programmers are familiar with SQL and will need a help in the transition to LINQ. Sometimes there are complicated queries to be written and Linqer can help by converting SQL scripts to LINQ. |
COST/Trial |
| LiquidXML |
Liquid XML Studio 2010 is an advanced XML developers toolkit and IDE, containing all the tools needed for designing and developing XML schema and applications. |
COST/Trial |
| Log4Net |
log4net is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets. log4net is a port of the excellent log4j framework to the .NET runtime. We have kept the framework similar in spirit to the original log4j while taking advantage of new features in the .NET runtime. For more information on log4net see the features document. |
Free |
| Microsoft Web Platform Installer |
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy. |
Free |
| Mono Development |
Don't have Visual Studio - no problem! This is an open Source C# and .NET development environment for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X |
Free |
| Net Mass Downloader |
While it’s great that Microsoft has released the .NET Reference Source Code, you can only get it one file at a time while you’re debugging. If you’d like to batch download it for reading or to populate the cache, you’d have to write a program that instantiated and called each method in the Framework Class Library. Fortunately, .NET Mass Downloader comes to the rescue! |
Free |
| nMap |
Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. |
Free |
| NoScript (Firefox add-in) |
The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Flock, Seamonkey and other Mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java and Flash and other plug-ins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank), and provides the most powerful Anti-XSS protection available in a browser. |
Free |
| NotePad 2 |
Notepad2, a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry. |
Free |
| PageSpy |
PageSpy is a small add-on for Internet Explorer that allows you to select any element within a webpage, select an option in the context menu, and view detailed information about both the coding behind the page and the element you selected. |
Free |
| Phrase Express |
PhraseExpress manages your frequently used text snippets in customizable categories for quick access. |
Free |
| PowerGui |
PowerGui is a free community for PowerGUI, a graphical user interface and script editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell! |
Free |
| Powershell |
Comes with Win7, but you can automate tasks by using the .NET Framework. Great for network admins. |
Free |
| Process Explorer |
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. Also, included in the SysInterals Suite. |
Free |
| Process Monitor |
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. |
Free |
| Redmine |
Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. |
Free |
| Reflector |
Explore and analyze compiled .NET assemblies, viewing them in C#, Visual Basic, and IL. This is an Essential for any .NET developer. |
Free |
| Regular Expression Library |
Stuck on a Regular Expression but you think someone has already figured it out? Chances are they have. |
Free |
| Regulator |
Regulator makes Regular Expressions easy. This is a must have for a .NET Developer. |
Free |
| RenameMaestro |
RenameMaestro is probably the easiest batch file renamer you'll find to instantly rename multiple files |
COST |
| ReSharper |
The one program that I cannot live without. Supports VS2010 and offers simple refactoring, code analysis/assistance/cleanup/templates. One of the few applications that is worth the $$$. |
COST/Trial |
| ScrewTurn Wiki |
ScrewTurn Wiki allows you to create, manage and share wikis. A wiki is a collaboratively-edited, information-centered website: the most famous is Wikipedia. |
Free |
| SharpDevelop |
What is #develop? SharpDevelop is a free IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. |
Free |
| Show Me The Template |
Show Me The Template is a tool for exploring the templates, be their data, control or items panel, that comes with the controls built into WPF for all 6 themes. |
Free |
| SnippetCompiler |
Compiles code snippets without opening Visual Studio. It does not support .NET 4. |
Free |
| SQL Formatter |
Instantly format SQL code! |
COST/Trial |
| SQL Prompt |
SQL Prompt is a plug-in that increases how fast you can work with SQL. It provides code-completion for SQL server, reformatting, db schema information and snippets. Awesome! |
COST/Trial |
| SQLinForm |
SQLinForm is an automatic SQL code formatter for all major databases including ORACLE, SQL Server, DB2, UDB, Sybase, Informix, PostgreSQL, Teradata, MySQL, MS Access etc. with over 70 formatting options. |
COST/OnlineFree |
| SSMS Tools |
SSMS Tools Pack is an add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) including SSMS Express. |
Free |
| Storm |
STORM is a free and open source tool for testing web services. |
Free |
| Telerik Code Convertor |
Convert code from VB to C Sharp and Vice Versa. |
Free |
| TurtoiseSVN |
TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows.Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like. |
Free |
| UltraEdit |
UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and hex editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. UltraEdit is also an XML editor including a tree-style XML parser. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later). |
COST/Trial |
| UltraEdit Studio |
UEStudio offers all the functionality of UltraEdit plus other exciting and powerful features! Whether you are simply editing text, building applications, maintaining databases, or constructing websites, UEStudio's stunning array of innovative features offers the functionality of a bonafide IDE at an unsurpassed value. |
COST/Trial |
| Virtual Windows XP |
Comes with some W7 version and allows you to run WinXP along side W7. |
Free |
| VirtualBox |
Virtualization by Sun Microsystems. You can virtualize Windows, Linux and more. |
Free |
| Visual Log Parser |
SQL queries against a variety of log files and other system data sources. |
Free |
| WinMerge |
WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle. |
Free |
| Wireshark |
Wireshark is one of the best network protocol analyzer's for Unix and windows. This has been used several times to get me out of a bind. |
Free |
| XML Notepad 07 |
Old, but still one of my favorite XML viewers. |
Free |