My end of year tool honours list

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Well the holiday season is finally upon us, and I would like to take this opportunity to post a list of applications that I personally have found useful over the past 12 months. There are some classics in there, but a few surprises. Have a look, there may be something of interest to you. So, have yourself a ‘Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year’.

Windows Server 2008 (configured as a workstation)
Visual Studio 2008
     Plug-ins – Ghost Doc
                    Resharper 4.1
                    Copy Source as HTML

Firefox
     Plug-ins – Foxmarks
                    Sage RSS
                    Firebug
                    Colorzilla

Yahoo Widgets

General Tools
Deep Burner
Foxit Reader
Magic ISO
Glary Utilities
CCleaner
Win dirstat
Notepad++
JKDefrag

Continuous Integration
CC.Net
NUnit
NAnt
Editor4NAnt
NCover

Code Analysis & restructuring
NDepend
NArrange
Win Merge
Reflector
Source Monitor

Documentation generation
Sandcastle
Sandcastle Help File Builder

XML
SketchPath