Productivity tools for the busy C# developer
There’s no getting away from it….I’m a bit of an add-in junky. The visceral thrill of a new bit of productivity kit is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Here’s a short list of tools I couldn’t live without.
GhostDoc – A VSNET addin that generates XML comments based on your method and class names. Normally the results are pretty good and only require a minor amount of tweaking
Google Desktop – Switch off all the visual panels and stick with the utter magic of the ‘double ctrl’ search box.
Launchy – A new one on me. Very like the ‘double ctrl’ Google function but for launching apps and navigating your file structure. You can even coerce it into doing much cleverer things as outlined here on Lifehacker.
WinDirStat – Other disk visualization apps just can’t compete. Bow down to the master.
Subsonic – This bit of kit entirely changed the way I prototype applications. The ability to just throw away large chunks of code and then re-generate new versions is so liberating I can’t explain. It makes entirely usable Active Record based objects and editors ( called scaffold ) to get your projects from 0 to 60 without breaking a sweat.
August 12th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
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