I was kindly tagged by Gøran Hansen recently on his post about Visual Studio developer tools and add-ons, and so here's my list of tools. I'm going to make this more of a "tech tools I use in general" list rather than exclusively a Visual Studio or .NET list. It's a more accurate view of my development environment this way.
Visual Studio / C# / .NET
- Resharper. Code analysis and refactorings like no other tool. Visual Studio feels strange without it.
- LINQPad. For quick LINQ testing and experimenting.
- Snippet Compiler. Quickly run a bit of code, without creating a test project in Visual Studio.
- NUnit. Runs side by side with the code I'm currently working on.
- Reflector. For when I'm curious what's inside...
- Web Service Studio. Type in a web service URL. See the methods it exposes. Call them. See the results. Easy!
Other tools
Heard about, want to use, but not had the chance yet...
- XUnit
- Subversion
- jQuery intellisense in the new Visual Studio
- WPF
- Silverlight