My Top-3-Developer Tools
The German msdn blog “Softwarehersteller in Deutschland” is asking what are your favorite 3 developer tools and here are mine:
1. Visual Studio + Add-Ins
The first tool I cannot live without is Visual Studio. I always try to use it but sometimes, in school, I have to use different IDEs .. and then I know again why I love Visual Studio.
Also the Add-Ins available for Visual Studio are so great. I could have listed them as tools as well, but I don’t count them here. Some Add-Ins I’m using a lot are GhostDoc, TortoiseSVN, TestDriven.Net … just to mention some examples.
2. ToDoList – free
The second tool I have chosen is ToDoList. This is a simple but great todo-list management applications.
It has all the features a lot of the expensive tools have, but for free.
The UI isn’t something special but it’s functional and that’s what count.
3. XmlMarker – free
XmlMarker is the third tool I have chosen, as I work quite often with xml files.
When the xml-files are small and simple you can manage them in Visual Studio. But when the files get complex and large, as Collada files you can’t deal with them in Visual Studio.
Visual Studio is not designed for those long lines and that much data.
But XmlMarker really handles this great. This is the best xml-tool I have found and it’s free.
