.NET Developer's Useful Tools

Every developer has a list of some favorite tools, applications, plug-ins and OS. The developer uses these tools for his productivity and easyness. As the time passed this list keeps changed. Here I am sharing; my list of tools which are free to use and I think that every developer must have these tools on his PC/Laptop.

Development tools

1. Visual Studio 2012 Express Editions

   Visual Studio 2012 Express Editions are very useful for new web experience including metro style applications, and many new features that rocks the dot net world. Download the express edition to develop dot net application with new experience and features.

2. SQL Server 2012 Express Editions

   SQL Server 2012 Express Editions are very useful for web and small server applications, if you don't want to purchase original SQL Server 2012.

3. Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions

   Visul Studio 2010 Express Editions are very useful for dot net application development, if you don't want to purchase original Visual Studio 2010.

4. LINQ Pad

   LINQ Pad is a very useful tool for querying the databases with LINQ and Entity Framework. This is a awesome tool for learing LINQ developed by Joseph Albahari. Using this you can execute any C# or VB expression.

5. Visual Studio Productivity Power Tool

   Visual Studio Productivity Power Tool is an extension for Visual Studio that makes a developer's life easy. It is helpful in projects navigation, tab differentiation with colors in your solution and with many more features.

6. ReSharper

   ReSharper is a powerful tool that increase the coding speed since it provides a large set of actions for coding, analysis and refactoring.

7. NuGet

   NuGet is very useful when you want to add a specific extension, library, package to your Visul Studio. Just add a reference of that library, it will automatically download the libary and add to Visual Studio.

8. Notepad++

   Notepad++ is a great text editor and has Visual Studio IDE like experience. Using this you can do coding for CSS, HTML, JS etc.

9. FileZilla

   FileZilla is a great tool for uploading your web application files, dlls, images etc using FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.

10. Fiddler

    Fiddler is awesome tool for your Web application debugging, tracing and monitoring the request, response of your web application.

11. FireBug

    Like Fiddler FireBug is also a great tool for your Web application resources tracing and monitoring the request, response of your web application.

12. SQL Complete

    SQL Complete is a awesome tool for adding intellisense to SQL Server like Visual Studio. You must have this tool in SQL Server.

13. YUI Compressor

    YUI Compressor compress any Javascript and Cascading Style Sheets that works exactly as the original and take minimum time in loading.

14. Versioning Control

    Ankh SVN is a open source subversion Source control for Visual Studio for managing your's source code different versions like VSS and TFS.

    Tortoise SVN is also a open source subversion Source control for managing your's source code different versions.

15. Web Essentials

    Web Essentials is a great extension for Visual Studio. It add intellisense to the CSS, Javascript and HTML editors.

16. JScript Editor Extensions

    JScript Editor Extensions is a great extension for Visual Studio. It has support for automatically highlighting the matching opening or closing brace, parenthesis, square brackets, curly braces and many more.