You know how you search for a piece of software to do that thing… and you find it and use it, then 6 months later you need to do “that thing” again and can never remember the name of that thing…. !!!
This is just a list of links to software sites where I have downloaded tools and utilities in the past that I don’t want to forget.
Pretty short list for now but I will add to it..
Software
| Utilities | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name | Details | Link |
| 7 Zip | Free software for zip | link |
| MyDefrag | Free software for defraging your hard disk | mydefrag |
| Reporting Services Scripter | Software for scripting copying and deployment of Reporting Services reports | link |
| Imaging | ||
| Name | Details | Link |
| Paint .Net | Free software for editing images | link |
| Virtualization | ||
| Name | Details | Link |
| VM Ware Player | This is a direct link to the download page to bypass the need to register 🙂 | on filehippo |
| Virtual Box | My preferred virtualization platform now, that VMWare has started putting disclaimers about only being free for home use | Virtual Box Website |
| Remote Desktop Manager | Awesome free tool for managing all your remote desktop sessions. For one application I have 5 servers per environment and 5 environments, (dev, staging, sandpit, training and Prod) and I manage all my RDP sessions in this tool. | http://remotedesktopmanager.com/ |
| Source Control | ||
| Name | Details | Link |
| Visual SVN | Best SVN repository for Windows | Visual SVN server and or Visual Studio plugin client |
| AnkhSVN | Subversion Support for Visual Studio, works with VS 2012 | AnkhSVN website |
| Tortise SVN | Windows explorer integrated SVN tool | Tortise SVN on sourceforge |
| Development tool and VS plugins | ||
| Name | Details | Link |
| Code Maid | Visual Studio Plugin – Automatically sorts and removes unwanted using statements. consistently formats your code by removing spaces and commenting #endregion statements and other niceties like, Find in solution explorer, which will show your file in solution explorer. Great to use in a team to get consistency in your code formatting. |
http://www.codemaid.net/ Visual studio Gallery |
| Indent guides | shows vertical lines to highlight the indenting of your code. Great to track down that pesky missing closing bracket | Visual Studio Gallery |
| MediaInfo.dll | Library for reading the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. | MediaInfo sourceforge |
| iTextSharp | Opensource C# PDF Library | iTextSharp on sourceforge |