Default installation for developer machines

Default installation for developer machines

IDE

Must have

  • Visual Studio 2008
  • Visual Studio 2010

Nice to have

  • Sharp Develop
  • Eclipse

Editor

Must have

  • Editor with high functionality and high usability
    (like WScite, UltraEdit, PSPad, ..)

Nice to have

  • Microsoft XML Notepad 2007
  • Notepad++
  • Windows Live Writer
  • WScite

Visual Studio Add-Ins

Must have

  • AnkhSvn
  • GhostDoc
  • PowerCommands
  • PowerToys for Visual Studio
  • ReSharper
  • VsCommands

Nice to have

  • CopySourceAsHtml
  • Clone Detective for Visual Studio
  • CR_Documentor, Documentor
  • Agent Johnson (R# Plugin)
  • Agent Smith (R# Plugin)
  • Source Code Outliner
  • StyleCop for ReSharper (R# Plugin)

Developing Tools

Must have

  • DbgView
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Reflector
  • WinMerge

Nice to have

  • DXCore (u.a benötigt für Documentor)
  • FusLogVw
  • Microsoft FxCop 1.36
  • Microsoft FxCop 10
  • Microsoft Pex
  • Micosoft StyleCop
  • NDepend

Other Tools

Must have

  • CLCL
  • clip2txt
  • Launchy
  • ProcessExplorer
  • ProcessMonitor
  • TortoiseSVN
  • SVNMonitor

Nice to have

  • CmdHere Powertoy
  • FeedReader
  • Network Stumbler
  • SRWare Iron
  • TortoiseCVS
  • TrueCrypt
  • VLC Media Player
  • ZoomIt

Quicklaunch

Must have

  • Shortcut to clip2txt
  • Shortcut to Explorer as administrative user
    %windir%\system32\runas.exe /user: "explorer /e,/separate,C:\"
  • Shortcut to (special) home and working directories
    %windir%\explorer.exe /e,/root,c:\projects
    \Projects">\\uranus\home$\\Projects

Nice to have

  • No GIS-links
  • No Office links (only Outlook)
This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Marko Apfel

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