I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. It had been a really long time since I listed the current tools, SDKs, and frameworks that I’ve been using. Thus here’s my entourage of software that I use on a regular basis that is installed on my primary development machines.
Basic Software & System OS
- Windows 7 64-bit
- Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
- Visual Studio 2010 Plugins
- Gallio (w/ mbUnit)
- NBuilder (for building up test data for in memory SQLite)
- TestDriven.NET
- SQLite for .NET with Design Time
- Rhino Mocks
- Windows Azure SDK 1.3
- Windows Azure AppFabric
- AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK 1.2
- Inversion of Control Containers: Autofac & Castle Project Windsor
- Elmah
- Topshelf for WCF Deployment
- Expression Ultimate 4
- Office 2010 (Rarely, I try to stick to Google Docs, to maintain usability across devices)
Administration Utilities
- Virtual Clone Drive (For mounting *.iso images)
- FileZilla for FTP
- VirtualBox for Virtualization
- WinRar
Themes & Such
- Stardock‘s WindowBlinds
- Visual Studio Color Theme Editor (Visual Studio Plugin) w/ Blend Theme (download)
- Visual Studio Style Embers
In addition to these packages of software another as important, if not more important to my day-to-day software development includes these software services and cloud hosting services.
SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
- Highrise HQ by 37signals
- Unfuddle Project Management with Git Fast Version Control System
- Github for Sharing Source & Open Source Projects
- Gmail, Gdocs, and Gcal by Google
- Smugmug for image hosting
- Amazon Web Services EC2, S3, and other services
- Windows Azure Web Roles, Table, Blog, and other Storage & Service
Software I will be adding to the stack within the next few days, weeks, and months.
Thanks for linking it to the developer blog banter
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