Recommend Productivity Tool for VS 2008
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Can anyone recommend a good tool or set of tools for use in visual studio 2008? I've never used any before, but I think I'd like to start making my life a little easier... :) Scott P
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” -Edsger Dijkstra
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Can anyone recommend a good tool or set of tools for use in visual studio 2008? I've never used any before, but I think I'd like to start making my life a little easier... :) Scott P
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” -Edsger Dijkstra
carbon_golem wrote:
I'd like to start making my life a little easier...
You don't say what your are trying to make easier: code libraries, Windows components, data modeling, testing tools, reporting, etc. But if you are talking about building on the actual development environment, you might want to have a look at these "Productivity Tools:" Resharper[^] DevExpress CodeRush[^] (take a look at the video tutorials) DevExpress Refactor[^]
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Can anyone recommend a good tool or set of tools for use in visual studio 2008? I've never used any before, but I think I'd like to start making my life a little easier... :) Scott P
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” -Edsger Dijkstra
I have installed: Resharper for productivity while coding. mbUnit for testing (get the Resharper test runner plugin as well). Diamond Binding for data access (of course :P). Reflector for checking exactly what the framework is doing. GhostDoc for making commenting easier. Ankh SVN 2 - Source control provider for SVN. Resharper plugins that are useful are mbunit support (as mentioned), scout (go-to definition in reflector), agent smith and agent johnson for code-style fixing. Out of my dev environment we run CruiseControl.Net for CI, use TargetProcess 2 for management, and have a wiki in traq. www.visualstudiogallery.com has even more ;)
Mark Churchill Director, Dunn & Churchill Pty Ltd Free Download: Diamond Binding: The simple, powerful, reliable, and effective data layer toolkit for Visual Studio.
Alpha release: Entanglar: Transparant multiplayer framework for .Net games. -
carbon_golem wrote:
I'd like to start making my life a little easier...
You don't say what your are trying to make easier: code libraries, Windows components, data modeling, testing tools, reporting, etc. But if you are talking about building on the actual development environment, you might want to have a look at these "Productivity Tools:" Resharper[^] DevExpress CodeRush[^] (take a look at the video tutorials) DevExpress Refactor[^]
Thanks! Much appreciated. Scott P
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” -Edsger Dijkstra
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I have installed: Resharper for productivity while coding. mbUnit for testing (get the Resharper test runner plugin as well). Diamond Binding for data access (of course :P). Reflector for checking exactly what the framework is doing. GhostDoc for making commenting easier. Ankh SVN 2 - Source control provider for SVN. Resharper plugins that are useful are mbunit support (as mentioned), scout (go-to definition in reflector), agent smith and agent johnson for code-style fixing. Out of my dev environment we run CruiseControl.Net for CI, use TargetProcess 2 for management, and have a wiki in traq. www.visualstudiogallery.com has even more ;)
Mark Churchill Director, Dunn & Churchill Pty Ltd Free Download: Diamond Binding: The simple, powerful, reliable, and effective data layer toolkit for Visual Studio.
Alpha release: Entanglar: Transparant multiplayer framework for .Net games.Fantastic, didn't know about Ankh or TargetProcess, I'm going to have a look at those straight away. Seems like Resharper is on the top of everyone's list. Thanks, much appreciated! Scott P
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” -Edsger Dijkstra