Recommended Utilities

The focus of these blogs (.NETWeblogs) is of course on .NET. When you have a second, why not share/demo some piece of code you use often or an approach to a common problem you have solved?

[ScottW's Blog]

Code is great. But often it's tied to one particular problem. I have found that whenever I see a question on CodeProject or via one of my MSN contacts that I don't know the answer to, I don't go looking for a code snippet to help me out. Rather, I turn to one of my many utilities that I love. So I thought I'd share a couple with everybody:

  • Reflector - This is by far the most useful tool in the .NET world. A great object browser that far surpasses anything that the VS.NET object browser has to offer.
  • Documentor - More by Lutz Roeder, a very nifty tool for working with XML documentation in C#.
  • jv16 Powertools - While not necessarily a programming utility, I do find jv16 Powertools to be very useful. The file and registry tools are just awesome.
  • Syndirella - I love Syndirella. 'Nuff said.
  • Window Sizer - This app is awesome. Because I run at 1400x1050 screen resolution, often the ASP.NET pages that I make are too big for people with normal resolutions to see...
  • Control Inspector - A must have for any Windows Forms developer. This app lets you inspect when controls are fired on forms. Very nice. It's kind of like Spy++ for .NET, but there's a "test" surface that you can add controls to in order to just perform an ad hoc test of when the event gets fired.

[Dstone's Blog]

I agree, but you can't leave Anakrino (FREE) out.  It is the single most powerful .NET learning tool available.

Published Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:11 PM by ejsmith
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# re: Recommended Utilities

Friday, March 07, 2003 6:10 AM by Jamie Cansdale
Have you tried NUnitAddin? That's what I turn to first when spelunking with the CLR. Okay, I'm biased. But nothing beats being able to right click and run a method. What do you reckon?

Spelunking with Ad Hoc Tests
http://dotnetweblogs.com/NUnitAddin/archive/02262003.aspx

# re: Recommended Utilities

Friday, March 28, 2003 10:10 PM by Tomas Restrepo
Well, I'd argue the most powerful (and free, too) is by far ILDASM, but anakrino is certainly a must-have :)

# re: Recommended Utilities

Saturday, July 05, 2003 4:29 PM by Steve
.NET Reflector has a very cool decompiler with hyperlinks so who needs Anakrino at all?

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