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Table of Cool .NET Tools

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Here are some cool .NET tools from MSDN / codeplex, complete with Download and tutorial links.

Tool Summary Where to get it Links
CLR Profiler Easy way to measure memory performance for managed apps. Download for .NET 2.0, .NET 1.1 Tutorial
Perf Console Awesome for analyzing performance issues for apps. This makes perf analysis surprisingly easy to do and is perfect for the non-perf person. Download Demo, details
Power Shell A shell scripting language that's infinitely better than batch files. Download Tutorial, Blog, MSDN
Iron Python Python on .NET See link on homepage. Source code Homepage, Tutorial included in download.
MS Build Way better than NMake. Included in .NET redist. Tutorial, Blog, Forum
MDbg Managed wrappers for debugging managed apps. Download (Also in the SDK) Forum, Other Links

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  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2006
    Your post is titled "cool .NET tools" but all the tools you are listing are done by Microsoft. The only place where cool .NET tools are done lately is Microsoft??? Sounds like Microsoft mono-culture is starting all over again...

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    November 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2006
    Lots of great stuff this time. CLR/Interop There has always been a ton of confusion about CLR assembly

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    November 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2006
    May I suggest Lutz Roeder's Reflector for .NET http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ "Reflector is the class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation viewer for .NET. Reflector allows to easily view, navigate, search, decompile and analyze .NET assemblies in C#, Visual Basic and IL."

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2006
    I agree with Mike and Josh. These are good tools to know. Here are some other cool tools: Scott Hanselmans's list of awesome tools - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2005UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolList.aspx GnuWin32 tools - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2007
    Lots of great stuff this time. CLR/Interop There has always been a ton of confusion about CLR assembly

  • Anonymous
    December 03, 2008
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