11 important .Net Development Tools for Smarter Development

Microsoft Web Platform Installer

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This tool is a free package management software that allows all users to access the latest components of the Microsoft Web platforms like SQL Server, .Net Framework, etc. These systems generate updates automatically while installing the latest version of each component.

Resharper

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This tool is developed by JetBrains. This Visual Studio extension provides help to all the .Net Developers to work in a perfect environment for the safe and secure development of .Net applications. Developers are performing on-the-fly code analysis and provide hundreds of quick fixes as well as automated solution-wise code refactoring. It is the best tool for developers who wish to complete their .Net project quickly and follow the coding standard. Moreover, it provides various code editing helpers for the instant code transformation, and rearrangement of code, and displays the documentation and auto-importing namespaces.

NuGet

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This tool is used by .Net developers to have a quick share of a particular code with a selective team, organizations, or enterprises. It is a free and open-source. It acts as a package manager which allows several third-party libraries to create and share their tools. It is the largest database of third-party components for .Net as it consists of 98 thousand packages approximately. NuGet supports several programming languages like .Net framework and native packages written in C++ with the package creation aid by CoApp.

Web Essentials for Visual Studio Gallery

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Visual Studio Gallery allows quick access to the Visual Studio extensions, controls, and templates. The marketplace implements with the IDE which allows accessing thousands of products that are available online.

According to Vladlen Shulepov, CEO of Riseapps says, “Web Essentials for Visual Studio is an amazing tool to add to Microsoft's popular Visual Studio development environment. This extension adds to the already impressive functionality of the environment, which allows writing and debugging code. This tool is a must-have for those working in web development with its inventory of additional languages and templates.”

LinQPad

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It is a software utility that targets .Net framework development. LinQPad is majorly used to test the LINQ queries or any C#/F#/VB program. This tool is developed with the debugger and autocomplete features, and it is the best platform for prototyping with quick feedback. It is integrally used to experiment with the code tools to project with the LINQ and test the code snippets before they are created into the code.

According to Thierry Tremblay, CEO & Founder of Kohezion says “I really like using LinQPad to test out features of C#/.Net and regular expression patterns. It enables you to write little snippets of code and see the results right away. With LinkQPad it is easy to convert SQL statements to LINQ expressions.

It supports Intellisense for premium. Additionally, you can connect LinQPad to most major databases, start querying your database using LINQ and easily create an Entity Framework type query to do C# actions in it.”

Chocolatey

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-This tool is also a windows package manager and becoming one of the popular platforms. This tool allows installing all Windows tools from the command line. The important feature of this tool is that it works with all programming establishment innovations such as NSIS, InnoSetup, and even runtime binaries and zip achieve. Chocolatey consists of PowerShell to provide guidance to automated software management and in-manufactured modules to complete the complex undertaking immediately.

Ncrunch

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With this tool, developers can run the test as they write their code. It is a testing tool that enables the .Net developers to meet up the quality measure while writing the code. Ncrunch pulls out the mandatory data from the tested code and the developers can improve the code quality simultaneously.

 

Bytescout

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According to Jack Zmudzinski, a senior associate at future-processing.com- says “For a serious .NET developer, I strongly believe that Bytescout is the best choice you can make for Smart Development. Why? Because it has tons of great features including:

• Creation of PDFs with rich text and imagery
• Separation of meta information
• PDF conversion
• PDF archive splitting

I personally love this tool as it allows me to put together PDF files in C# or VB.NET which allows me that little bit more flexibility. I can also create reports in tons of different formats including PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and CCITT. As somebody who has a lot of balls in the air at any given time, this functionality has become really important to get the job done for my clients.

Finally, as somebody who has experienced a few issues with negative SEO, I find that ByteScout’s security options - including 128-bit and 256-bit encryption - have been invaluable. In fact, I haven’t had a single security issue since using ByteScout - which makes it well worth the price for me.

It depends on the situation or the .NET developers which .NET tool is perfect for the requirement and the developer will implement it. But one good thing happens is that all these additional tools can free developers from their routine tasks and automate many processes while optimizing their performance and eliminating errors.

GhostDoc

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It is an extension of a visual studio through which a developer can generate XML comments from the source code by making use of customizable templates. You can produce help-related documentation in various formats, and maintain up-to-date documentation. You can also enable intelligence code to spell-checker in the framework which would be helpful while developing.

Benefits of GhostDoc:

• Through XML comments you can describe the details of the methods, parameters, classes, variables, etc.
• Automate document generation without any human intervention.
• Documentation maintenance that is clean and up-to-date.
• Intelligence support, etc.

FindUnused Files

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FindUnusedFiles of Visual Studio framework would help you to find the orphaned and needless files in the directories or a project. With ease of integrate into the development IDE, this standalone application eliminates unreferenced images as well. It ultimately helps in saving disk space from unused stuff. Removal of unreferenced code would also make a difference in the webpage loading factor.

SpellChecker

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The Visual Studio Spell Checker is an editor extension that verifies the spelling of strings, comments, and plain text while typing in the tool window. To get deeper, it utilizes NHunSpell to perform the verification. With wide maintenance of custom dictionaries, it includes support for OpenOffice versions 2, 3, and 4 as well.

The inner XML element could also be verified with this spell-checker extension. Some other features such as ignore all, and ignore once, were also added in the editor, and many more.

11 important .Net Development Tools for Smarter Development There are thousands of .Net Development companies and developers who are using the .Net framework each day to build numerous types of applications. As a result, this has turned to an increase in a huge number of third-party tools. Each tool has its own characteristics to be useful and valuable. For the enterprise level, business owners and web application development agencies have had detailed research to go with the right tool for the respective project they have in-house. The third-party tools provide accurate support to the developers at the time of developing a website. To assist the developers to decide which .Net tool will be the best fit for your application development project, I have listed down a few of the popular efficient tools which are most preferable by the .Net Developers. Microsoft Web Platform Installer This tool is a free package management software that allows all users to access the latest components of the Microsoft Web platforms like SQL Server, .Net Framework, etc. These systems generate updates automatically while installing the latest version of each component.     Resharper This tool is developed by JetBrains. This Visual Studio extension provides help to all the .Net Developers to work in a perfect environment for the safe and secure development of .Net applications. Developers are performing on-the-fly code analysis and provide hundreds of quick fixes as well as automated solution-wise code refactoring. It is the best tool for developers who wish to complete their .Net project quickly and follow the coding standard. Moreover, it provides various code editing helpers for the instant code transformation, and rearrangement of code, and displays the documentation and auto-importing namespaces.     Read More: Top 5 Devops Tools Of 2020   NuGet This tool is used by .Net developers to have a quick share of a particular code with a selective team, organizations, or enterprises. It is a free and open-source. It acts as a package manager which allows several third-party libraries to create and share their tools. It is the largest database of third-party components for .Net as it consists of 98 thousand packages approximately. NuGet supports several programming languages like .Net framework and native packages written in C++ with the package creation aid by CoApp. Web Essentials for Visual Studio Gallery Visual Studio Gallery allows quick access to the Visual Studio extensions, controls, and templates. The marketplace implements with the IDE which allows accessing thousands of products that are available online. According to Vladlen Shulepov, CEO of Riseapps says, “Web Essentials for Visual Studio is an amazing tool to add to Microsoft's popular Visual Studio development environment. This extension adds to the already impressive functionality of the environment, which allows writing and debugging code. This tool is a must-have for those working in web development with its inventory of additional languages and templates.” LinQPad It is a software utility that targets .Net framework development. LinQPad is majorly used to test the LINQ queries or any C#/F#/VB program. This tool is developed with the debugger and autocomplete features, and it is the best platform for prototyping with quick feedback. It is integrally used to experiment with the code tools to project with the LINQ and test the code snippets before they are created into the code. According to Thierry Tremblay, CEO & Founder of Kohezion says “I really like using LinQPad to test out features of C#/.Net and regular expression patterns. It enables you to write little snippets of code and see the results right away. With LinkQPad it is easy to convert SQL statements to LINQ expressions. It supports Intellisense for premium. Additionally, you can connect LinQPad to most major databases, start querying your database using LINQ and easily create an Entity Framework type query to do C# actions in it.” Chocolatey -This tool is also a windows package manager and becoming one of the popular platforms. This tool allows installing all Windows tools from the command line. The important feature of this tool is that it works with all programming establishment innovations such as NSIS, InnoSetup, and even runtime binaries and zip achieve. Chocolatey consists of PowerShell to provide guidance to automated software management and in-manufactured modules to complete the complex undertaking immediately. Ncrunch With this tool, developers can run the test as they write their code. It is a testing tool that enables the .Net developers to meet up the quality measure while writing the code. Ncrunch pulls out the mandatory data from the tested code and the developers can improve the code quality simultaneously.   Bytescout According to Jack Zmudzinski, a senior associate at future-processing.com- says “For a serious .NET developer, I strongly believe that Bytescout is the best choice you can make for Smart Development. Why? Because it has tons of great features including: Creation of PDFs with rich text and imagery Separation of meta information PDF conversion PDF archive splitting I personally love this tool as it allows me to put together PDF files in C# or VB.NET which allows me that little bit more flexibility. I can also create reports in tons of different formats including PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and CCITT. As somebody who has a lot of balls in the air at any given time, this functionality has become really important to get the job done for my clients. Finally, as somebody who has experienced a few issues with negative SEO, I find that ByteScout’s security options - including 128-bit and 256-bit encryption - have been invaluable. In fact, I haven’t had a single security issue since using ByteScout - which makes it well worth the price for me. It depends on the situation or the .NET developers which .NET tool is perfect for the requirement and the developer will implement it. But one good thing happens is that all these additional tools can free developers from their routine tasks and automate many processes while optimizing their performance and eliminating errors. Planning to Hire DOTNET Web Development Company Contact Now See here GhostDoc It is an extension of a visual studio through which a developer can generate XML comments from the source code by making use of customizable templates. You can produce help-related documentation in various formats, and maintain up-to-date documentation. You can also enable intelligence code to spell-checker in the framework which would be helpful while developing. Benefits of GhostDoc: Through XML comments you can describe the details of the methods, parameters, classes, variables, etc. Automate document generation without any human intervention. Documentation maintenance that is clean and up-to-date. Intelligence support, etc. FindUnused Files FindUnusedFiles of Visual Studio framework would help you to find the orphaned and needless files in the directories or a project. With ease of integrate into the development IDE, this standalone application eliminates unreferenced images as well. It ultimately helps in saving disk space from unused stuff. Removal of unreferenced code would also make a difference in the webpage loading factor.   SpellChecker The Visual Studio Spell Checker is an editor extension that verifies the spelling of strings, comments, and plain text while typing in the tool window. To get deeper, it utilizes NHunSpell to perform the verification. With wide maintenance of custom dictionaries, it includes support for OpenOffice versions 2, 3, and 4 as well. The inner XML element could also be verified with this spell-checker extension. Some other features such as ignore all, and ignore once, were also added in the editor, and many more.  

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