must-have tools!
As a well-known 'tool-freak' i would like to start a thread about the tools you can't live without or those you have heard others can't. here is my list: project management: ms-project Visual Studio Team System design: Visual Studio Team System visio version control: Visual Studio Team System subversion + tortoisesvn + ankhsvn - all open source. bug tracking: FogBugz Visual Studio Team System tests: NUNIT documentation: NDOC builds: NAnt better code: FxCop miscellaneous: notepad2 - cool notepad improvment, recognize xml, c#, vb, java and much more (with colors) paint.net - cool MSPaint improvment. try it! microsoft virtual pc 2004 - run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer VMware - the same but not limited to windows OS google toolbar google desktop - search for documents on your computer GMail Notifier - Windows app that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages GMail drive shell extension - creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium babylon daemon tools - Virtual DVDROM drive, use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD TaskSwitchXP - cool windows switch (alt+tab) Rss Bandit - rss aggregator, open source RealVNC - remote access to other computers messenger 7 skype node32 - computer security app, better then norton! ------------------------------------------------------------------- i am looking for a good bug tracking tool. any ideas? please share your favorite tools!