FREE .NET Software Development Tools – Part 1
Anne Grub at DevProConnections.com recently pulled together a list of free software development tools offered by vendors and the .net developer community.
I took the liberty of expanding that list to introduce some more free killer tools.
Code-generation, Editing, Templates
- Altova Authentic 2011 Community Edition
- CodeLobster PHP Edition
- jQueryPad
- Notepad++
- Programmers Notepad
- My Generation
Content Management Systems
- DotNetNuke Community Edition
- Kentico CMS for ASP.NET Free Edition
- mojoPortal
- MonoX
- Vine Type Personal Edition
- Umbraco
- Orchard
Data Access, ORM
- Cloud Storage Studio
- Entity Developer Express Edition
- LINQPad Standard Edition
- NHibernate
- OpenAccess ORM Free Edition
- SubSonic
- Dapper
- PetaPoco
Project Management & Documentation
Performance, Profiling, Debugging
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