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Tool Guide for .NET Developers
Here is a collection of great tools available for
free that are essential to every .NET developer.
The Tools
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.NET Reflector (by Lutz Roeder)
Reflector is a class browser for .NET
components. It supports assembly and namespace
views, type and member search, C# XML documentation
viewer, call and callee graphs, IL, VB and C#
disassembler, dependency trees, base type and
derived type hierarchies and resource viewers. C#,
Visual Basic and Delphi language syntax is
supported.
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NDoc Code Documentation Generator for .NET
NDoc generates class library documentation from .NET
assemblies and the XML documentation files generated
by the C# compiler (or with an add-on tool for
VB.NET).
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Snippet Compiler (by Jeff Key)
Snippet Compiler compiles snippets.
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PINVOKE.NET Add-In for Visual Studio (by
Adam Nathan)
This add-in for Visual Studio (7.0 or later) gives
you two new options when right-clicking in source
code: "Insert PInvoke Signatures..." and "Contribute
PInvoke Signatures and Types..." It does this by
communicating with www.pinvoke.net, the Interop wiki!
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.NET FormatDesigner (by
Chris Sells)
FormatDesigner is an application to experiment
with the format strings used to format data in
String.Format and various type's ToString
functions.
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XmlSerializerPreCompiler (by
Chris Sells)
Tired of the XmlSerializer's generic "File or
assembly name ctewkx4b.dll, or one of its
dependencies, was not found" exception? The
XmlSerializerPreCompiler tools checks to see if
a type can be serialized by the XmlSerializer
class and if it can't, shows the compiler errors
happening behind the scenes so that the type can
be modified. Enjoy.
This just in: Mathew Nolton has posted
a GUI front-end to my XmlSerializerPreCompiler
that you might find useful. Thanks, Matt!
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Some other interesting tools
Whidbey Commands Add-In for Visual Studio
(Gaston Milano)
If you don't want to wait for Whidbey in order to
use a couple of useful commands in the IDE this is
add-in is for you.
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Smart Paster 1.1 Add-In for Visual Studio (by Alex
Papadimoulis)
Helps you to pasting large string literals (SQL
queries or dialogs) into code easily.
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Regions AddIn for VS.NET 2003 (by JWT)
An AddIn for VS.NET 2003 to create regions.
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Your Feedback
If you know a tool that definitely belongs here
let me know.
Last updated:
04/20/08
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