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By: unit testing

unit testing — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:56:14 +0000

well,the windbg is fine,i mean that excelent for a debug!

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By: SBC

SBC — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:14:45 +0000

your FxCop URL is pointing to the ‘gotdotnet’ site which is near extinction.

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By: Alex Lowe

Alex Lowe — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:46:00 +0000

Thanks for all the comments everyone!

I think this is turning into a great resource. Spread the word and let’s see if we can get an even more complete list going.

I’ll definately be looking at some of these apps myself.

– Alex

By: Filip

Filip — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:57:55 +0000

For a documentation tool I would recommend Sandcastle (http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/). It’s compatible with 2.0 features (generics, etc). There are also many helper projects on CodePlex.
NDoc still rules for 1.0 and 1.1.

By: jc

jc — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:08:01 +0000

I veto the FxCop suggestion. What a horrible horrible application.

Or maybe my problem is just the clueless mumbai sweat shop managers who decide everything needs to be FxCop compliant.

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links for 2007-07-27 | iSurflite — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:24:53 +0000

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By: Steen

Steen — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:03:20 +0000

Jon: NDoc has been dormant since 2005 AFAIK.

Again, I would recommend doxygen. It does not have *complete* C#-support, but the developers are very helpful in trying to accomplish this. But then again, NDoc would also not have complete NDoc support, as development ceased in 2005…

Sidenote: Alex, would it not be a good idea to change the link from cruisecontrol.sf.net to ccnet.sf.net?

By: Jon Parker

Jon Parker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:31:02 +0000

Alex,

went to get NDoc, noticed it prompted selection for .net 1.0 or 1.1, do you know anything about 2.0 support? thanks!

By: Ilya Ryzhenkov

Ilya Ryzhenkov — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:22:08 +0000

I know one IDE that is better than VS2005. It is VS2005 + ReSharper. Though I work for JetBrains now, but I knew this long before I joined the team. Try it! http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper

By: Steen

Steen — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:38:02 +0000

I would take a completely different approach:

The framework
Mono (go-mono.com), which ensures cross-platform

IDE:
emacs, c# mode and ecb

Profiler:
Monos profiler (http://www.mono-project.com/Performance_Tips)

Debugging:
mono –debug, or strace

Code analysis:
IronPython, embed a scripting language in c#

Unittesting:
I would just add, that NUnit not only has a GUI client, but also works great from the command-line. Plus it integrates nicely with cruisecontrol.net

Documentation:
We use doxygen. Simple and functional

Build tools:
Mono ships with the msbuild-compliant xbuild. this is great when trying to build projects from MS-VS. However, NAnt is much better.

Contiuous Integration Tools:
Why use CruiseControl, when they have CruiseControl.Net? (ccnet.sourceforge.net)

Source Control:
Subversion.

Bug Control:
Bugzilla, integrates to MS-VS through Bugzproxy (http://oss.dbc.dk/bugzproxy)

Happy Hacking!

By: Alex Lowe

Alex Lowe — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:01:47 +0000

Thanks for the links, Ryan. I’m glad you’re adding your own picks. Above are the tools that I use personally and professionally… and have for years so I feel comfortable and confident in recommending them.

I’ll definately take a look at SharpDevelop as I’ve heard many great things about it.

Happy programming!

By: Ryan Christensen [draw.logic]

Ryan Christensen [draw.logic] — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:59:08 +0000

TestDriven.NET is also nice for NUnit VS.NET IDE integration.

By: Ryan Christensen [draw.logic]

Ryan Christensen [draw.logic] — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:57:35 +0000

SharpDevelop getting no love in the IDE category? http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

If you are looking for an IDE that helps with mono and windows .net SharpDevelop is better than VS.NET. It is maiinly for class libraries not web or forms much but 3.0 is adding some WPF and XAML support.

What about XAMLPad?