Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - tools of the trade http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - tools of the trade http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:37:56 GMT Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:37:56 GMT Rev9 9 -9 -1 Tech Off - tools of the trade I thought I'd start a thread where people can post which tools they use when programming with .NET.  This could be IDE's, Debugging tools, Documentation tools, Languages, Profilers, etc.

I use:

Visual Studio .NET 2003 (C# coding/debuging mostly)
MSDN Library (obvious...)
FxCop (Analizes code and writes you parking tickets or something...)
Reflector (A sweeeeeet .NET Assembly browser/Decompiler)

Thats about it.  I'm looking to expand my usage of tools, so please dont be shy and list off everything you use!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/5664#5664 Tue, 04 May 2004 23:25:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/5664#5664 Pseudo 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Pseudo/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - tools of the trade For .NET: just VisualStudio 2003 and the MSDN library collection for VS. No other funky tools, sorry Smiley

I'm also a DBA, so I use all the SQL2K client tools too (I spend a lot of time in Query Analyzer, writing TSQL scripts and procedures).

And for classic ASP: good old Interdev with XMLCheck plugin..

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/739bf85b89c9481c8e0f9dea010fc49b#739bf85b89c9481c8e0f9dea010fc49b Wed, 05 May 2004 01:02:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/739bf85b89c9481c8e0f9dea010fc49b#739bf85b89c9481c8e0f9dea010fc49b miies 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/miies/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - tools of the trade For me the staples are:

Visual Studio 2003
MSDN
notepad & the csc.exe (for quick projects)

Sometimes I'll check out other tools (similiar to "XML Notepad") especially XML editors, not really to see what the competition is doing, but more searching for the easist to use tool for editing XML, XSLT & XSD.

Any freeware suggestions?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/38fa43c37704449db1079dea010fc4c5#38fa43c37704449db1079dea010fc4c5 Wed, 05 May 2004 03:14:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/38fa43c37704449db1079dea010fc4c5#38fa43c37704449db1079dea010fc4c5 SKG 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/SKG/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - tools of the trade I recently had to do some serious HTML parsing for a client. Regular expressions were the way to go. So I downloaded RegexDesigner.NET from Chris Sells site:
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#regexd
This tool is great, simple to use and even generates code for you!
In fact that site is packed full of really useful tools.

Thanks Chris - you saved me a whole lot of time!
P.S. Maybe you can get the RegexDesigner into Visual Studio?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/491aa0c8cf4d4fc5b3e29dea010fc507#491aa0c8cf4d4fc5b3e29dea010fc507 Wed, 05 May 2004 10:03:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/491aa0c8cf4d4fc5b3e29dea010fc507#491aa0c8cf4d4fc5b3e29dea010fc507 Andrew Davey 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Andrew Davey/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - tools of the trade Here at TAIsoftware we use

VS.Net 2003    (of course)
MSDN           (Ditto)
VS 6 (for some older vb apps we support)

Databases
SQLServer 7 and 2000
Postgres
Oracle
Cache'
DB2
MYSQL

I was tired of using different tools for each of these DB engines so we wrote a tool that supports most of what these engines can do via ODBC connections and mimics the interface of the SQLServer client tools for SQLServer 2000.

We also wrote our own GRID control that is in most every thing we write for our customers in one form or another.

We have also written our own Graphing Controls, and data visualization controls for simillar purposes.

We tend to craft what we need for things because part of our process leaves our clients with the source for their applications. As we do a good job they don't usually have a need for anyone else but if they did they would not be left in the lurch with the binaries for an application that they could not fix a problem with. By being fairly plain jane our clients can replicate the env that their products were developed in without alot of expense and configuration know-how.
 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/1b5816ef1fb243978ebe9dea010fc534#1b5816ef1fb243978ebe9dea010fc534 Wed, 05 May 2004 12:13:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/1b5816ef1fb243978ebe9dea010fc534#1b5816ef1fb243978ebe9dea010fc534 Lwatson 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Lwatson/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - tools of the trade I also recommend the following:

NDoc - documentation generator

NUnit - unit testing tool

CLRSpy - tool for using CDPs

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/3b73e507859f472086fc9dea010fc55d#3b73e507859f472086fc9dea010fc55d Wed, 05 May 2004 13:31:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/3b73e507859f472086fc9dea010fc55d#3b73e507859f472086fc9dea010fc55d Nystul 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Nystul/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - tools of the trade
Andrew Davey wrote:
I recently had to do some serious HTML parsing for a client. Regular expressions were the way to go. So I downloaded RegexDesigner.NET from Chris Sells site:
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#regexd
This tool is great, simple to use and even generates code for you!
In fact that site is packed full of really useful tools.

Thanks Chris - you saved me a whole lot of time!
P.S. Maybe you can get the RegexDesigner into Visual Studio?


I totally agree... first his book, Windows Form Programming in C#, an excellent read.. and then he gives us a tool like RegexDesigner? Thats awesome!

Props!

BTW, Where is Chris on the forums? Wink

Jake

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/66de0264219b4c3491a09dea010fc589#66de0264219b4c3491a09dea010fc589 Wed, 05 May 2004 14:57:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/66de0264219b4c3491a09dea010fc589#66de0264219b4c3491a09dea010fc589 GooberDLX 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/GooberDLX/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - tools of the trade Download link is erroring out....another source?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/2f23bbc549ed496282889dea010fc5b2#2f23bbc549ed496282889dea010fc5b2 Wed, 05 May 2004 16:15:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/2f23bbc549ed496282889dea010fc5b2#2f23bbc549ed496282889dea010fc5b2 MonkeyMon 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/MonkeyMon/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - tools of the trade another site to download the app:
 http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=01e0dfb7-0182-45cd-94f7-2ed2df2504a9

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/7d1b9503e1ae478b80e59dea010fc5dc#7d1b9503e1ae478b80e59dea010fc5dc Wed, 05 May 2004 18:04:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5664-tools-of-the-trade/7d1b9503e1ae478b80e59dea010fc5dc#7d1b9503e1ae478b80e59dea010fc5dc MonkeyMon 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/MonkeyMon/Discussions/RSS