{"id":318,"date":"2004-11-04T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2004\/11\/04\/Tools+Of+The+Trade"},"modified":"2004-11-04T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T17:48:29","slug":"tools-of-the-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/04\/tools-of-the-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools of the Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my collegues was asking me which tools I use for .NET Development, preferrably of the free or virtually free variety. So for everyone’s enjoyment (and my future reference):<\/P>
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Development Tools<\/U><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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NUnit<\/A><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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NAnt<\/A><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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NDoc<\/A><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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<\/SPAN>CruiseControl.NET<\/A><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>CLR Profiler<\/A><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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CLR Spy<\/A><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Lutz Roeder’s tools<\/A>, especially: <\/SPAN>Reflector for .NET<\/A> and <\/SPAN>Documentor for .NET<\/A><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Chris Sells’ tools<\/A>, especially: <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>RegexDesigner.NET<\/A> and <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>XmlSerializerPreCompiler<\/A><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Everything by Sysinternals.com<\/A><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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<\/FONT><\/SPAN> <\/DIV>
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Source Control<\/U><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Vault<\/A> (Free for single users)<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Subversion (Open-source SCM similar to CVS, but much better.)<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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– Server<\/A><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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– TortoiseSVN<\/A> (Windows Explorer extension)<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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– RapidSVN<\/A> (VSS-like GUI)<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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– AnhkSVN<\/A> (VS.NET add-in)<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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– vss2svn<\/A> (Perl script to import VSS into SVN)<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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– FireDaemon<\/A> (Runs svnserve – or other console app – as a Windows Service. v1.6 Personal can still be found on various download sites and is free for personal use.)<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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<\/FONT><\/SPAN> <\/DIV>
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Libraries<\/U><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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log4net<\/A><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Genghis<\/A><\/DIV>
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Also worth checking out is Scott Hanselman’s Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List<\/A>.<\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my collegues was asking me which tools I use for .NET Development, preferrably of the free or virtually free variety. So for everyone’s enjoyment (and my future reference): Development Tools NUnit NAnt NDoc CruiseControl.NETCLR Profiler CLR Spy Lutz Roeder’s tools, especially: Reflector for .NET and Documentor for .NET Chris Sells’ tools, especially: RegexDesigner.NET and XmlSerializerPreCompiler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dotnettools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}