.NET Tools: Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now

.NET Tools: Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now an article from MSDN Magazine, July 2004. The ones that I find most useful: 1. Snippet Compiler (http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler) I have blogged about this tool many times before. It is always running in my taskbar and I use it many times a day to test different coding ideas that I come up with or run across on the internet. Saves a ton of time. 2. .NET Reflector to examine assemblies This one is my second most favorite tool. I use it and iLDasm to figure out code and the way in which Visual Studio converts regular code to IL. I have used it many times to squeeze out extra efficency from my code. One heck of a great tool. 3. FxCop to police your code This is a useful tool for doing code review and making sure that you stick by some coding standards and best practices. 4. NUnit to write unit tests Another useful tool that allows you to automate testing. 5. NAnt to build your solutions Used to automate build tasks. 6. Regulator to build regular expressions