Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Important Free tools

Here are tools I use on a regular basis. They have attributes I find essential:

They are free.
They do one thing and they do it well.

XPathBuilder: Dynamically searches XML. Bubba Soft

Expresso: Design and test regular expressions before you compile: Ultrapico

WinMerge: Compares files and directories: Winmerge

XVI32: A hex editor. With this I learned about the BOM: Christian Maas

While these tools are great, they can really add to your productivity when you integrate them into Visual Studio. When you right click a file in the solution and use "Open With…" You can add these tools to the list of applications.

I hope you find this useful.

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