Posts tagged VB.NET

It occurred to me the other day that I use quite a lot of different tools at work. Some of the tools I only use on rare occasions but I have never made a list of them and often forget about them.

So I though I would put a list up here that I will keep up to date and others my find useful.

Main Tools

• Visual Studio – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/default.aspx (Visual Studio Express for those on a tight budget – http://www.microsoft.com/exPress/)
• Expression Studio - http://www.microsoft.com/expression/
• MS SQL – http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx (Express Edition – http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/)
• NetBeans – http://netbeans.org/
• Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Other Tools

• Toad - http://www.toadsoft.com/
• SQLDBTOOLS - http://www.sqldbtools.com/
• Paint.NET – http://www.getpaint.net/
• GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/
• SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx
• DiffMerge - http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/
• SoapUI - http://www.soapui.org/
• VMWare Player - http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
• FileZilla - http://filezilla-project.org/

Thats a start to the list. I’ll try and add a little description for each too