Tools I cannot work without.
I posted an article about
Sites, References and Articls that I cannot work
without
awhile back. I decided I'd follow up on it on tools I cannot
work without.
Visual Studio 2005.
Yea, I can't really work without this. This is my
bread, butter, coffee, and ninja-snacks all coupled into one
nice thing.
FireFox 2.x
This is my main development browser. I always create
web sites and web applications to work first in FireFox. I
then modify little bits to make sure they work in IE7.
FireFox Developer Toolbar.
This is the main tool I use while working with
FireFox. It's a very lightweight accurate and very efficient
tool for web design.
FireFox - FireBug
FireBug is not a priceless tool that I cannot work
without. FireBug allows you to navigate through the HTML DOM
as the browser sees it. Whenever you ViewSource (FF/IE) it
will show you what the browser originally recieved from a
web server. However with all the dynamic content being
generated in todays world, we need to see what that content
is. Firebug allows us to do this. Firebug also allows
developers to disable and add CSS styles dynamically to any
webpage they're browser. It also comes with a built in
JavaScript debugger.
CSS Vista
I saw this on a blog awhile back and decided to give
it a try. It is a great tool for fixing small CSS issues.
You give it a URL and it will render that webpage in both
FireFox 2.x and IE7... and displays both versions on one
screen. From there you can modify the CSS files that the
URL uses and both browsers use your changes as you type them
(Real Time!).
Windows Service Debugger
Anderson Imes blogged about this little tool he
wrote. Now that I am working with Windows Services more,
this tool is insanely helpful. All you do is reference his
DLL, and change a single line of code in your Start method
of your windows service. From there you can hit F5(Run) and
you can debug directly inside your service.