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General12 Free Tools you need PinPopular
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Introduction

Surfing the Internet I often come across some interesting tools, services, web sites and I bookmarked these pages. Yesterday I recognized that my list is run out and I was starting clean him. Not everything were good but most of them I left and categorized.

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Especially for Code Project and for his readers I've prepared list of 12 usefull and free tools for developers and I hope you will appreciate them. They will save your time and money. All this tools are from different categories but I hope you'll find at least one useful for you.

1. DotNetNuke Community Edition

Vendor name: DotNetNuke;

Website: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Products/Community-Edition.aspx

Description: Open source website/CMS platform for Microsoft .NET. The system is a full featured web CMS and application development framework.


2. Entity Developer Express

Vendor name: Devart;

Website: http://www.devart.com/entitydeveloper

Description: Entity Developer is a free powerful modeling and code generation tool for ADO.NET Entity Framework, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL. You can use Model-First and Database-First approaches to design your model and generate C# or Visual Basic .NET code for it. It introduces new approaches for designing ORM models, boosts productivity, and facilitates the development of database applications.



3. CodeLobster PHP Editor

Vendor name: Code Lobster;

Website: http://www.codelobster.com/

Description: Multifunctional portable Free IDE for building PHP websites. CoreLobster PHP Editor comes with all standard features PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript highlighting, advanced PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript autocomplete, Powerful PHP debugger, SQL autocomplete and much more.



4. TX Text Control Express

Vendor name: Text Control;

Website: http://www.textcontrol.com/en_US/sites/tx-text-control-express/

Description: Enhanced Rich Text Box for VB.NET and C#


5. OpenAccess ORM Free Edition

Vendor name: Telerik;

Website: http://www.telerik.com/products/orm/free.aspx

Description: Telerik OpenAccess Free Edition is a free tool that allows seamlessly create database independent code by minimazing Create, Read, Update, Delete operations. Using visual editor you can build your domain model and take full control of the mapping process.



6. CodeCompare

Vendor name: Devart;

Website: http://www.devart.com/codecompare/

Description: CodeCompare is a freeware Windows tool for visual file comparison and merge. You can seamlessly compare binary file and directories, ignore lines, highlight syntax, highlight diffs down to the level of charecters or words. It goes as a standalone application and as a Visual Studio add-in.



7. DevPlanner

Vendor name: SmartBear Software;

Website: http://smartbear.com/products/free-tools/devplanner/

Description: Free-to-use Software Development Project Management Tool allows developers to view progress and deadlines, and differences between estimated and actual time spent on projects.



8. dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3

Vendor name: dynaTrace;

Website: http://ajax.dynatrace.com/ajax/en/

Description: ynaTrace AJAX Edition 3 makes building lightning fast Web 2.0 applications easy. Speed your page load times, optimize rendering, tune DOM execution, and compare to competition. Even integrate with Selenium, Watir or QTP to begin automating your performance tests. It's free, it's easy and it's now for both Firefox and IE.

9. Git

Vendor name: Community;

Website: http://git-scm.com/

Description: Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.



10. Firebug

Vendor name: Community;

Website: http://getfirebug.com/

Description: With Firebug you can: Pinpoint an element in a webpage with ease and precision. Send messages to the console direct from your webpage through Javascript. Measure your Javascript performance in the Console's Profiler. Tweak and position HTML elements with CSS and the Layout panels. Look at detailed measurements of your site's network activity. Step-by-step interactive debugging in a visual environment.



11. JustDecompile

Vendor name: Telerik;

Website: http://www.telerik.com/products/decompiling.aspx

Description: JustDecompile is a free developer productivity tool designed to enable easy .NET assembly browsing and decompiling. Just with the simple click of a button JustDecompile lets you effortlessly explore and analyze compiled .NET assemblies and decompiling code.



12. CodeRush Xpress

Vendor name: Developer Express;

Website: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/CodeRushX/

Description: Code navigation, selection, and refactoring tool for Visual Studio 2008/2010. Includes intelligent code navigation, selection and declaration features with over 50 refactorings for VB and C# developers. Surfing the Internet I often come across some interesting tools, services, web sites and I bookmarked these pages. Yesterday I recognized that my list is run out and I was starting clean him. Not everything were good but most of them I left and categorized. Especially for Code Project and for his readers I prepared list of 12 usefull and free tools for developers and I hope you will appreciate them. They will save your time and money. All this tools are from different categories but I hope you'll find at least one useful for you. <code>
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SuggestionDevart 6 Free Tools Pin
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