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Tools every .NET developer needs:
*Know any tools you thing belong here? Email me!
TCPTrace
Simon Fell [download from pocketsoap.com]
Strictly speaking this may not be a .NET tool but I use it ALL the time for monitoring HTTP traffic. And it's a single .EXE, so I just dump it in windowssystem32 and forget about it.
Anakrino
Jay Freeman [download from saurik.net]
Anakrino is an amazing tool for inspecting IL and seeing it in C# or C++ form. Jay Freeman pretty much wrote it solo. Wow!
Reflector.NET
Lutz Roeder [download from lut'z site at aisto]
Reflector is a sort of ILDASM++. My favorite feature is "Call Tree", allowing you to drill down into IL methods to see what other methods they call. Lutz has lots of other goodies too, including all-important .NET port of DigDug.
The Allocation Profiler
Maheshp@microsoft [download from gotdotnet.com]
The Allocation profiler lets you profile memory allocation and various other runtime statistics from a running managed executable. Even better it comes with source code. Indispensable way of seeing inside your process.
FxCop
[download from gotdotnet.com]
From gotdotnet: FxCop is a code analysis tool that checks your .NET assemblies for conformance to the .NET Framework Design Guidelines  . It uses reflection, MSIL parsing, and callgraph analysis to inspect your assemblies for more than 175 defects in the following areas: naming conventions, library design, localization, security, and performance.
It's extensible too, so you can add your own rules for verification. Very useful for larger projects.
What languages can I use to write managed code?
There is a list of language vendors at gotdotnet.
General links
Fabrice's page This page has tons of other links to tools. I defer to him for more references...
© Copyright 2003 Jason Whittington.
Last update: 3/26/2003; 9:40:42 AM.
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