Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now

Sunday, June 20, 2004

.NET General

James Avery published in July 2004 MSDN Magazin the following article :

Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now !

NUnit to write unit tests
NDoc to create code documentation
NAnt to build your solutions
CodeSmith to generate code
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

ps. The regulator is a creation of Roy Osherove ... CoWorker and a friend of mine :-)

3 Comments

Thanks for the mention.

James Avery - Sunday, June 20, 2004 11:20:00 PM

I would leave out CodeSmith, but the others are here, too.

Thomas Tomiczek - Sunday, June 20, 2004 11:21:00 PM

Wow, you can always count on Thomas to ruin a good party.

I am not suprised to hear you say you would leave CodeSmith out of that line up, even if your sentiment is ridiculous. CodeSmith is amazing, not just for generating code, but for little one-off things that are just repetitive and boring. I downloaded your tool, and Eric's at the same time. CodeSmith beat yours hands down. For one, I have control of the code. I have control of the architecture. I don't have to count on you to get things correctly.

Where I come from they call what you are doing "Playa Hating." So I say to you, dont hate the player, hate the game.

Jeff Gonzalez - Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:41:00 PM

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