Top 10 Must-Have .NET Tools Every Developer Should Download Now

In the latest issue of MSDN magazine there is an article titled “Top 10 Must-Have .NET Tools Every Developer Should Download Now“.  Here is a list of the tools:

  • NUnit to write unit tests
  • NDoc to create code documentation
  • NAnt to build your solutions
  • CodeSmith to generate code (Wahoo!  CodeSmith made the list!)
  • FxCop to police your code
  • Snippet Compiler to compile small bits of code
  • Two different switcher tools, the ASP.NET Version Switcher and the Visual Studio .NET Project Converter
  • Regulator to build regular expressions
  • .NET Reflector to examine assemblies

    • Here is a link to the online version of this article:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/MustHaveTools/default.aspx

    1 Comment

    • I did not find Snippet Compiler very usefull. It's memory usage is very high. So I'd rather open another Visual Studio instance.



      Also NAnt was quite disappointing. Four months ago it was quite difficult to compile NAnt with itself. Don't know about its state now.

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