Introduction

Even Chris created his article of Useful Reference Books ages ago I just bumped into it, and after adding my bit I thought to do something similar in the field of development tools.

So feel free and add tools you found useful in your career - and check back to see what others are using.

No spam, no advertising, no commercial stuff. Feel free to add closed-source Tools, as long as they are available for free.

Contents

• Code Editors
• IDEs
• Web Servers
• Version Control
• Real Time Application Info
• .Net (Sub) Frameworks
• JavaScript Frameworks
• Diff / Merge
• Regular Expressions
• Diagramming Tools
• Documenting
• Testing
• Online Playgrounds
• LINQ Tools
• Front-end Frameworks
• Disassemblers / decompilers / inspectors
• XAML / WPF
• SQL databases
• NOSQL databases
• Database related tools
• Continuous build process / Build tools
• Diagnostics
• Continuous Integration

Code Editors

• vim
• Notepad++
• Sublime Text
• TextPad
• WebMatrix

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• Eclipse Primarily for Java
• NetBeans Primarily for Java. Can also be used for PHP, C/C++, and HTML5
• Android Developer Tools, Windows 64bit
• Android Developer Tools, Windows 32bit
• Android Developer Tools, Mac OS 64bit
• Android Developer Tools, Linux 64bit
• Visual Studio for .NET Desktop/Web/Mobile Development
• EmEditor
• SharpDevelop
• MonoDevelop
• Android Studio
• Bluefish Editor

Web Servers

• Apache Lounge
• IIS 8 Express

Version Control

• Workspaces
• GitHub
• Team Foundation Service
• Subversion (SVN)

Real Time Application Info

• Glimpse
• Fiddler

.NET (Sub) Frameworks

• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

JavaScript Frameworks

• jQuery
• AngularJS
• knockoutJS
• three.js (library for creating 3D graphics)

Diff/Merge

• Araxis Merge
• Beyond Compare
• Wimerge
• DiffUtils (useful for scripting diff; combine with this script to get HTML output)

Regular Expressions

• Regexper
• Regular expression visualizer
• Expresso

Diagramming Tools

• yEd
• UMLet
• StarUML
• Xmind

Documenting

• GreenShot
• Atomineer Pro Documentation for Visual Studio
• Doxygen

Testing

• JMeter (for load testing; combine with BadBoy for script generation)
• QUnit
• NUnit
• xunit

Online Playgrounds

• jsFiddle
• SQL Fiddle
• /reFiddle+/
• Amy Editor
• Koding

LINQ Tools

• LINQPad
• 101 LINQ Samples [MSDN]

Front-end Frameworks

• Bootstrap
• Foundation
• Qt
  • Installation Guide [OS X]
  • Installation Guide [Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)]

Disassemblers / decompilers / inspectors

• ILSpy
• JustDecompile

XAML / WPF

• KAXAML
• WPF Inspector

SQL databases

• MariaDB
• MySQL
• Firebird
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Server Express Edition
• Oracle Database Express Edition 11g Release 2

NOSQL databases

General

• Hadoop
• Cassandra

Document store

• raptorDB
• mongoDB
• ravendb
• terrastore

Database related tools

• Toad for SQL Server Freeware
• Toad for Oracle Freeware
• Toad for MySQL Freeware
• Toad for Sybase Freeware
• More Toad...
• Oracle SQL Developer
• Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
• SQLTools for Oracle

Continuous build process / Build tools

• CruiseControl
• Psake

Diagnostics

• Windows Sysinternals

Continuous Integration

• Jenkins

Development Tools