tools

Here's my tools for trade list :

 

Themes and settings:

SlanXP Windows theme : from my (minimalistic inclined) point of view the best theme for Windows.

My VS settings : my Visual Studio settings (including the dark theme). Do NOT import all the settings from here. For VS2010.

VS 2010 Expression theme (black)

My Resharper live templates

My Resharper code style settings

 

Everyday user tools :

HotKeys [ this is by far the best productivity enhancement tool ever ]Forget command line, quick links, desktop filled with icons. HotKeys isa program keyboard launcher which is using the Win key/ cltr + key tolaunch programs. This is just to good to describe....after using it foralmost a year i have became addicted to it. Whole heartly recommanded.

Consolas avery nice UI wrapper over the command prompt (cmd.exe) .It supportstabs, transparency, text output formatting and lots more. Very usefulif you're a command line junkie.

Slickrun classy floating command prompt. You'll forget about Run once you'll try this.

Total Commander  - simply the best file manager out there. With some nice plugins. (commercial)

FeedDaemon - my favorite feed reader. It's pretty fast and has a usable UI.

Paint.NET free, features packed image editor written in C#.

Beyond Compare this is the best file comparation tool you can find.Commercial

TaskSwitchXP configurable alt-tab manager with lots of features.

VirtuaWin fast, feature-full window desktop manager.

CLCL Clipboard caching utility. Multiple copy/paste. Yummmmy.

UltraMon for dual monitors setup (commercial).

Pidgin for all my IM needs.

VLC the best media player.

WinSCP - a nice SFTP client. I'm waiting for a TC plugin.

MouseEmulator - it's a little better than the built in Windows solution.

Winsplit Revolution -  move windows with the keyboard

 

 

 

Development tools (NET oriented)

Reflector the best .NET decompiler with a shitload of useful plugins : code metrics, static analysis etc.

Resharper  - MUST HAVE addin for Vs.NET 2003/5/8/10. It actually makes VS.NET a top class IDE.

Fiddler 2 Http debugger with loads of features. It also has a request builder.

Notepad++  i didn't really drinked the vim koolaid so this is the best text editor. Tabs, autocomplete, syntax highlitghtning, lots of customization options.

TortoiseSVN SVN is, from my point of view, the best SCM and TortoiseSVN is the best "friction free" UI for a SCM. It is so good i have started using it even for my non programming tasks.

CruiseControl.NET : best tool for CI.

CoolCommands for VS.NET 2005 addin for VS.NET 2005 which adds a list o very useful commands to VS.NET 2005

NUnit the unit testing framework for .NET . Another very interesting framework which i have started working with recently is MbUnit (http://www.mbunit.org/)

NProf good free profiler for .NET 2.0 . Another very good option (although commercial) is dotTrace

GhostDoc addin for automatic code commenting. If you use the Microsoft's .NET coding conventions this will save you a "few" keystroks.

C# script this is a scripting execution engine for C#. Practically it allows you to run C# source code as a script. I used it to build a complex build script.



Web development tools

Watir groovy UI testing framework for Web applications written in Ruby.

IEDevToolbar - very useful development tools for IE

Web Development Helper IE only addin with useful tools for debugging / visualizers.

Xenu - for finding broken links on websites to be updated....