Windows Developer Tools Day

O'Reilly is 'declaring Friday, January 19th to be "Windows Developer Tools Day."' This day is tied to the launch of the new book by Jim Holmes and James Avery titled "Windows Developer Power Tools".

Since I live in both the .NET and Delphi worlds, I'm going to list tools from both. Most of my professional work is still in Delphi which is why the list is much longer. I saw an excellent user group meeting by Joe Wirtley and Dan Hounshell on Continuous Integration. I will definitely be checking out the following tools in the next few weeks: CruiseControl.NET, NAnt, NCover, NDepend, MSBuild, and Simian.

.NET

1. NUnit
2. Reflector
3. SysInternals
4. FxCop

Delphi

1. DUnit
2. FlameRobin
3. ModelMaker - available with latest versions of Delphi, else not open source
4. CodeSite - not open source but can't live without it

Shared

1. WinMerge
2. Notepad++
3. MockupScreens - not open source
4. Firebird - great database