Tools

Daily Used List     

1. Windows 7 64 bit and Windows XP Pro. Two dev machines now.    

2. Visual Studi.NET I am using 2008 SP1 & 2010 SP1 now.     

3. SQL Server Management Studio I am using 2008 now.     

4. Firefox big fan of FF. I like have some extentions on all my work and home machines: Adblok plus, Greasemonkey, DownloadHeler, piclens, etc.        

5. SlickRun a free and neat floating command line utility for Windows.     

6. MyGeneration an open source code generator. It's template based. I have lots of template for generate Sprocs, business entity class, XML database schedule for reporting. Great productivity tools for developers.     

7. dotPeek or JustCompile Every .Net developer should has .NET decompiler installed.     

8. WinMerge an open source differencing and merging tool.     

9. Cropper or Greenshot a screen capture tool is needs for documentation and better communication with your end users.     

10. Notepad2     11. Vmware Server for testing and try on new software     12. Some of Mark Russinovich's Sysinternals Tools     

13. MS Office  2010 version now. I use Outlook a lot. Xobni is a nice Outlook plugin. Also like the Communicator , use the "Share Desktop", save me time to fix an end user's problem. 

Visual Studio.Net Addins     

1. Crystal Report for .Net Framework.     

2. Consolas Font  a ClearType font for VS.Net     

3. MS Team Foundation Server Explorer     

4. ReSharper No.1 choice for refactoring and also has other nice feature. Only complain is consuming more resource and slow down my VS.   

 5. Vibrant Ink Theme my VS is black background and with colouring text. I use Johan Lam 's vs setting with my modifications.

.Net Component     

1. Microsoft Enterprise Library great application blocks. I mostly use data access, caching, and logging blocks.     

2. DevExpress .Net Controls  used in all my projects for more than 5 years.   

3. iTextSharp a great open source PDF library     

4. ZedGraph an open source chart component.     

5. Krypton Toolkit some free WinForm components  

Others     

1. Paint.NET a free image editing software has all features I need.     

2. Redmine an open source project management web application using Ruby on Rails.     

3. CentOS I use this distribution for server application and Fedora for desktop OS.     

4. FileZilla an open source FTP solution.     

5. WinSCP anohter open source SFTP tool.     

6. Live Writer makes life easier for blog and publish something to MOSS.     

7. Daemon Tools Lite or Virtual Clone Drive both are good. However, I find virtual clone drive worke better under Windows 7 64 bits.