To continue from my useful apps and useful utils posts, here are the development tools I *have* to have on a system to be anything close to productive.
1. VS.NET / .NET Framework - duh. Is it just me, or is debugging “slower“ in VS 2005?
2. CodeSmith - best code generation tool I've found. I love being able to generate pretty much anything I want, the way I want.
3. Reflector - nuff' said.
4. Vault - I will *never* go back to VSS. :-)
5. NUnit / Testdriven.net - nuff' said.
6. NDoc - MSDN-style document generation from Xml code comments.
7. Perl - great for quick and dirty utils
8. ViEmu - great ViM emulation for Visual Studio. I had forgotten about this app until I saw an update on The Daily Grind recently. Purchased today.
As you can see, I'm pretty easy to satisfy when it comes to software development.
Next up? Useful websites / web apps.
Update: 3/29/2006 @ 3:49pm (EST) - added item #8.