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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

.Net Programmer Toolbox Summer '09

So for the Summer of 2009 this is the software that is in this .Net programmer's toolbox:
($ denotes how expensive it is. FOSS - free open source software)
  1. Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 - $$$
  2. NHibernate 2.1 - ORM framework - FOSS
  3. Spring Framework 1.3 - IoC/DI framework - FOSS
  4. NAnt 0.86 - .Net build tool - FOSS
  5. NUnit 2.5 - .Net Unit Testing framework - FOSS
  6. Telerik AJAX Controls 2009 - great inexpensive web controls for .Net.  They also have a fairly liberal license. - $$
  7. Resharper - inexpensive Visual Studio add-on for refactoring and overall enhancing your IDE - $
  8. Sqlite ADO.Net Provider - lightweight database great for Unit Testing or client-side database - FOSS
  9. StyleCop & StyleCopExt - Microsoft's source code analysis tool & my extentions - free
  10. MyGeneration 1.3 - .Net code generation tool - FOSS
  11. NBuilder - tired of writing hundreds of lines of code to create objects in memory for unit testing? This is for you - FOSS
  12. Rhino Mocks - best mocking framework for .Net. Supports generics - FOSS

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