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

Thursday, June 17, 2004

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

[Via Eric J. Smith, CodeSmith]

I missed CodeRush on the list. I haven't used it yet, but heard a lot about it during TechEd 2004 (through blogsphere, of course)

Luciano Evaristo Guerche - Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:05:00 PM

Please, don't advertise every single too that hasn't made the list.

Chris - Friday, June 18, 2004 1:17:00 AM

I like the list. The only disagreement is NAnt, which is just an inappropriate solution adopted from the Java world. MSBuild will likely obsolete it.

Randy Charles Morin - Friday, June 18, 2004 2:10:00 AM

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