Microsoft .NET developer tools

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions – Unless you have MSDN license or a authorised copy of Visual Studio 2010, these express editions are really MUST-TO-HAVE products.

Notepad++ – A great text-editor with Explorer context-menu and a IDE-like experience.  If you are using TextPad or Notepad, I would highly recommend downloading this.

FileZilla – A fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and graphical user interface.

WebMatrix – A free web development tool from Microsoft that includes platforms such as WordPress, Razor (ASP.NET MVC3) and other open-source blogging, wiki tools.

LINQPad – interactively query databases in a modern query language LINQ using this tool instead of using SQL Management Studio.

JustDecompile – new, free developer productivity tool for easy .NET assembly browsing and decompiling and a complete replacement of .NET Reflector (since its no more free).  You can also try ILSpy.

SublimeText – If you are a Web-developer you must try the evaluation version of this tool.  It is really very intuitive, prose and has a slick user interface with extraordinary features.

Fiddler – Easy, clean and powerful web-traffic debugging proxy for HTTP.

SoapUI – This tool defines a perfect way to do functional testing using graphical interface to create automated functional, load or regression tests.  If you want to record user tests and generate some test code then you should try WatiN.

FireBug – Most powerful in-browser IDE on Mozilla Firefox allowing you to browse through HTML, CSS and Javascript.  If you want to check your web pages performance, you might want to try out YSlow by Yahoo.

NCrunch – Automated continuous testing within Visual Studio.NET that runs in background in your IDE and get information such as Code Coverage and Performance metrics.

KDiff3 – is an alternative to BeyondCompare to compare files, directories and automate merging of code.

HelpNDoc – Is a really great tool to generate documentation in PDF, Web-based, CHM, Word and iPhone for personal use.

LogParser – Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows® operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory.