Top “must have” Tools for Software Development

January 25th, 2008

Christopher Bennage wrote up a list of his "must have" tools for software development. Since his captcha system is broken for comments and for contacting him I will post my list here. Hopefully he can get his site fixed soon. I always find useful tools after posts like these.

Notepad2 - simple editor with color-coding support
http://brennan.offwhite.net/installers/NotePad2-2.0.16.msi

JSLint - for checking JavaScript syntax which integrates with Visual Studio
http://www.javascriptlint.com/
http://www.javascriptlint.com/docs/running_from_your_ide.htm

Packer for .NET - shrinks JavaScript with Packer or JSMin
http://svn.offwhite.net/trac/SmallSharpTools.Packer/
http://www.smallsharptools.com/Projects/Packer/

MSBuild Community Tasks - lots of helpful tasks, like zip
http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/

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2 Responses to “Top “must have” Tools for Software Development”

  1. Christopher Bennage Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    Thanks Brennan, I didn't realize the captcha was broken. I'm not the site admin, but I can pass along word. What browser\OS are you using?

  2. Brennan Stehling Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    I tried both IE7 and FF2.

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