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Favorite Tools

The following represents a list of some of my favorite tools (last updated – Dec. 2012).

Category Tools
Blogging / Presentation
  • Windows Live Writer 2011
  • ZoomIt
  • Camtasia
FTP
  • Core FTP LE
  • FileZilla
General
  • T4 / T4 Editor Pro
  • ReSharper 6.0
  • LinqPad (w/ Intellisense)
  • .NET Reflector (VSPro)
  • Telerik JustDecompile
  • Fiddler
  • SysInternals
  • BeyondCompare 3
Graphics Editing
  • Inkscape
  • Gimp 2.6
  • Photoshop CS5
  • Paint.NET
IDE
  • Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate
  • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
  • Eclipse (for Java and Ruby development)
  • PhpStorm 6 (for PHP development)
  • Komodo IDE 6.0 (for Python development)
  • PyDev (for Python development)
LDAP
  • LDAP Browser
ORM
  • LLBLGen Pro
  • CodeSmith Pro
Screenshot Tools
  • SnagIt
  • Camtasia
  • ZScreen
Text Editors
  • Sublime Text
  • TextPad (with WildEdit)
  • Notepad++
  • gedit
Project Management / UML
  • TopCoder UML Tool
  • Balsamiq
  • HelpNDoc
  • Gemini
Web
  • Color Scheme Designer
  • Slugs
  • ColorPic
  • Just Color Picker
Zip
  • 7-Zip
3rd party compiled lists
  • Scott Hanselman’s Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
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