Default installation for developer machines
A personal checklist of must-have and optional developer tools, IDEs, Visual Studio add-ins, editors, utilities, and Quick Launch shortcuts for a Windows development workstation.
IDE
Must have
- Visual Studio 2008
- Visual Studio 2010
Nice to have
- Sharp Develop
- Eclipse
Editor
Must have
- Editor with high functionality and high usability (like WScite, UltraEdit, PSPad, ..)
Nice to have
- Microsoft XML Notepad 2007
- Notepad++
- Windows Live Writer
- WScite
Visual Studio Add-Ins
Must have
- AnkhSvn
- GhostDoc
- PowerCommands
- PowerToys for Visual Studio
- ReSharper
- VsCommands
Nice to have
- CopySourceAsHtml
- Clone Detective for Visual Studio
- CR_Documentor, Documentor
- Agent Johnson (R# Plugin)
- Agent Smith (R# Plugin)
- Source Code Outliner
- StyleCop for ReSharper (R# Plugin)
Developing Tools
Must have
- DbgView
- Enterprise Architect
- Reflector
- WinMerge
Nice to have
- DXCore (u.a benötigt für Documentor)
- FusLogVw
- Microsoft FxCop 1.36
- Microsoft FxCop 10
- Microsoft Pex
- Micosoft StyleCop
- NDepend
Other Tools
Must have
- CLCL
- clip2txt
- Launchy
- ProcessExplorer
- ProcessMonitor
- TortoiseSVN
- SVNMonitor
Nice to have
- CmdHere Powertoy
- FeedReader
- Network Stumbler
- SRWare Iron
- TortoiseCVS
- TrueCrypt
- VLC Media Player
- ZoomIt
Quicklaunch
Must have
- Shortcut to clip2txt
- Shortcut to Explorer as administrative user %windir%\system32\runas.exe /user:<admin-user> “explorer /e,/separate,C:"
- Shortcut to (special) home and working directories %windir%\explorer.exe /e,/root,c:\projects \Projects”>\uranus\home$<user>\Projects
Nice to have
- No GIS-links
- No Office links (only Outlook)