Grok Talk for GANG – 10 Dev Tools in 10 Minutes

Here’s the list of ten tools that I covered in my session:

1. CodeRush/Refactor
   1. http://www.devexpress.com/
   2. Mark Miller (http://doitwith.net/)
   3. Dustin Campbell (http://diditwith.net/)
2. GhostDoc
   1. http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/
3. cr Documentor
   1. http://www.paraesthesia.com/blog/comments.php?id=701 0 1 0 C
4. SandCastle
   1. http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=SHFB
   2. GUI for SandCastle – http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/SandcastleBuilder.asp
5. Reflector and Add-Ins
   1. http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/download.aspx?File=Reflectorctor
6. CopySourceAsHTML
   1. http://www.jtleigh.com/people/colin/blog/archives/2004/10/visual studio a.html
7. ZoomIt
   1. http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/zoomit.html
8. Camtasia/Snagit
   1. http://www.techsmith.com/
9. Process Explorer
   1. http://www.sysinternals.com/
10. Snippet Compiler
    1. http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/snippetcompiler/

There are a lot of tools that didn’t make the list that really easily could have.

1. Tablet UML
   1. http://www.tabletuml.com/ – the UML tool that you don’t need to learn. It was created by Martin Shoemaker out of Hopkins Michigan.
2. CodeKeep
   1. http://www.codekeep.com/ – online Snippet Library and collaboration. It’s was created by Dave Donaldson out of Columbus Ohio.
3. CodeSmith
   1. http://www.codesmith.com/ – template based code generation. One of the great uses of this is to generate business objects based on database tables
4. Too many others to name at the moment…