Gotta Love A Clean Development Environment
Posted by Davy Brion on December 24th, 2008
Just installed a new development system for personal use… currently i only have the following installed:
- Windows XP Professional, with Service Pack 3: i don’t have Windows 2008 and i still don’t consider Vista to be a valid option
- SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition: i don’t have the 2008 version, plus the 2005 version more than suits my needs
- Visual Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1: duh….
- Resharper 4.1: duh… won’t use Visual Studio without it
- TortoiseSVN + VisualSVN: TortoiseSVN is great already, but the Visual Studio integration that VisualSVN provides is so nice that i can’t go back to just using TortoiseSVN.
- NHibernate Profiler: it’s not even out of private beta and i already consider this a must-have tool… i hope Ayende is gonna go easy on the licensing cost for this
- dotTrace: you gotta have a profiler, right?
Anything else i should consider installing? I only use this system for development so i don’t want any suggestions that aren’t related to that.
On a side note, despite being a Parallels customer i set this system up in VMWare Fusion. According to some reviews i read, Fusion beats Parallels when it comes to IO, making the system feel more ‘snappy’. I’ve been very impressed with the Fusion performance already so i just bought a license and am planning to use Fusion exclusively from now on instead of Parallels.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:16 am
take a look at AnkhSVN as a replacement for VisualSVN. Version 2 has come along in leaps and bounds since V1 (which I refuse to use as it is so unstable). AnkhSVN V2 was completely re-engineered as a visual studio source control provider.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:30 am
As “development” usually turns into “debugging”…
Debugging tools for windows, User Mode Process Dumper, Fiddler Web Debugging Proxy, .NET Reflector,
just about all Sysinternals utilities, Microsoft Network Monitor 3.2, WinDiff, .NET Reference Source Code, NetMassDownloader for the .NET Reference Source Code, MetaEdit (for IIS 5.1 on WinXP), and assuming you’re using a flat-screen: ClearType Tuner PowerToy, Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 will make your code a little nicer to look at
December 24th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I would be lost without a launcher. slick edit being my favourite
December 24th, 2008 at 11:05 am
my extra additions would be:
- launchy
- notepad++
December 24th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Wow, can’t believe i forgot the Consolas font, Notepad++ and Reflector… those are must-have’s, but i guess you don’t actually notice them not being there until you actually try to get some work done
i’ll (finally) give launchy a try, and i’ll probably install a few of those debugging tools as well
Thanks guys