Programming Tools For Developers

What tools do you use in conjunction with your IDE to extend your capabilities? In the previous article in this series, I looked at how important it was to know your IDE. Did you know that you can show and hide the line numbers in Visual Studio? While this option can be toggled, it got me thinking. I realized that it is also good to know the limitations of your IDE. How many other actions are we as developers performing that can be automated or that can be done more efficiently with a tool? (more…)