I have found the following developer toolbars invaluable during web development. Some of them you might be aware of alreay, but some of them might be new to you.
Internet Explorer
<ul>
<li>Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar</li>
<li>Web Development Helper</li>
</ul>Firefox
<ul>
<li>Web Developer</li>
<li>XML Developer Toolbar</li>
</ul>
For those of you who use Firefox on multiple machines and you get tired of getting out of synch with your bookmarks, cookies, passwords, history, and tabs then Google has a solution for you…
The Google Firefox Synchronizer.
Check out these great C# Programming Tools! I knew about some of them, but there are many that I didn’t even know existed and many of them are open source!
<blockquote>“The C# Team has scoured the Web for other implementations of the CLI, cool object browsers, IDE tricks, add-ins, obfuscators, and other useful tools and utilities that will help you get your job done faster.”</blockquote>
I ran across these free ASP.NET tools and thought I’d share them with you…
The Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.NET (alpha release)
<blockquote cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.1">“…is a tool that scans the configuration of an ASP.NET 2.0 application. The tool can scan against three mainline scenarios (hosted environment, production environment, or development environment) and identify problematic configuration settings in the machine.config or web.config files associated with your ASP.NET application. This is an alpha release intended to gain feedback on the tool and the configuration rules included with it.”</blockquote>
The Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer
<blockquote cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.1">“…is a tool to find and use relevant patterns & practices guidance. Guidance Explorer installs with a guidance library including performance and security topics for .NET and ASP.NET applications. The guidance library contains checklists and guidelines covering design, implementation and deployment topics. The tool and the library will evolve over time to include additional types of guidance.”</blockquote>
To see the “Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer” in action check out ScotGu’s Blog entry about it.
For those of you who do web UI development I ran across an online API tool (for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XSL, XPath, etc…) and thought it looked very useful, especially since it pulls from some of the sites I frequent anyway ( w3schools & MSDN ).
There seems to be plans to expand the site to include other technologies as well.
The site is http://www.gotapi.com/
