Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows development with more than 170 free and open source tools (Power Tools)

Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows development with more than 170 free and open source...

Software developers need to work harder and harder to bring value to their development process in order to build high quality applications and remain competitive. Developers can accomplish this by improving their productivity, quickly solving problems, and writing better code.

A wealth of open source and free software tools are available for developers who want to improve the way they create, build, deploy, and use software. Tools, components, and frameworks exist to help developers at every point in the development process. Windows Developer Power Tools offers an encyclopedic guide to more than 170 of these free tools to help developers build top-notch Windows software from desktop applications to web services.

To help you choose the right tools for solving both common and uncommon problems you face each day, this book follows a unique task-oriented organization, laying out topics in the same order that you and your team are likely to encounter them as you work on a project. Each tool entry features a solid introduction -- a mini user's guide -- so you can get up to speed quickly and understand how to best use the tool in your environment. Inside, you'll find:

A guide to more than 170 tools covering 24 unique aspects of Windows and .NET software development, with many descriptions contributed by the tools' authors

Descriptions of freely available ASP.NET and Windows Forms controls, object relational mapping systems, testing frameworks, and build and continuous integration tools

Articles on tools to help developers troubleshoot misbehaving applications

Guides for utilities to boost productivity in the development environment as well as speeding up tasks in Windows itself

"Quick pick" lists at the start of each chapter to help you find and choose the right tool for your task

"At a Glance" and "In a Nutshell" summaries to help readers more quickly narrow their options

References to an online book site to keep you up-to-date with new releases and features

Forewords by Mike Gunderloy (Larkware) and Scott Hanselman (http://www.hanselman.com/tools), operators of the two most popular tools sites for Microsoft developers.

Also, plenty of links in each article point you to additional detail online if you wish to delve more deeply into features and functionality. This one-stop resource covers a wide range of open source and freeware tools to help you answer questions around planning, developing, testing, and rolling out great software. Best of all, they're free.

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-15-2008; Excellent Reference to .NET Productivity Tools; DISCLAIMER: I personally know both authors. The book presents an exensive list of tools available to the .NET programmer. I agree with one of the reviewer that indicates that as soon as the book is published it is out of date; hence,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-17-2007; Bookshelf essentials - Windows Developer Power Tools; Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows development with more than 140 free and open source tools (Power Tools)OverviewOpen-source and free developer/performance tools can be found in abundance on the internet today but one of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-01-2007; Excellent Productivity Booster; [...]Until reading this book, I did not realize how much productivity I stood to gain.When I first agreed to review this book I didn't know what I was really getting into. I expected a brief catalog of fairly standard, well-known tools...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-18-2007; Great for anybody who wants to be more productive; I'm big into using the right tools for the right jobs. One can find a gazillion of tools out there on the internet, so it's hard to decide which ones are actually worth checking out. This book remedies that by giving you a consolidated...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-15-2008; Excellent Reference to .NET Productivity Tools; DISCLAIMER: I personally know both authors. The book presents an exensive list of tools available to the .NET programmer. I agree with one of the reviewer that indicates that as soon as the book is published it is out of date; hence,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-31-2007; Good Reference Tome - Trades Depth for Breadth; Windows Power Tools is a collection of brief tutorials and overviews of freeware and open source [...] development tools. What kind of rating you might give this book depends largely upon what type of background that you're coming from....; read full review | report as inappropriate