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Free Developer Tools

Here you will find a list of free tools quite handy for .NET developers.

Last Updated: 20-August-2008

Developer

• .NET Reflector: THE dissasembler.
• CLR Profiler: An excelent tool for profiling applications
• Enterprise Library: Quite interesting and useful pack of application blocks.
• NUnit: My favourite unit testing framework.
• PowerCommands for VS2008: Fixes and small tweaks Visual Studio should have by default!
• Resourcer: Nice tool to manage resource files.
• Snippet Compiler: The best tool for trying small pieces of code or algorithms.
• Strong Name Remove: Tool to remove Strong Name signatures from assemblies.
• ViewStateDecoder: Dissasemble ASP.NET ViewState into a treeview to analyze it.
• Virtual PC 2007: The best Virtual Machine manager for Windows systems.
• WinMerge: A simple yet powerful file merger/diff checker.

Graphics

• Color Blender: Tool to generate blending colors.
• Color Scheme Generator 2: Choose a color and get 3 related ones (darker and brighter), with tons of options and variations.
• Crystal Clear icons: Free icons
• Leo's Icon Archive: Tons of free quality icons
• Paint.NET: A free but very powerfull alternative to Adobe Photoshop.
• PNG2Ico: Command-line tool to generate icon files from PNG images (great for Favicons ;).

Miscellaneous

• Fiddler 2: An excellent HTTP sniffer for Internet Explorer.
• Foxit Reader: Lightweight alternative to Adobe's Acrobat Reader. Perfect for reading PDFs.
  
• LDAPManager: Lightweight and simple LDAP manager/browser.
• Live Sysinternals Tools: The incredible SysInternals tools.
• Notepad2: A neat sucessor of Windows Notepad, with extras and syntax coloring.
• PowerMenu: Minimize any window to systray, keep any window on top, and other features on this small tool.
• SQLite Database Browser: A SQLite manager/browser.