Starting up - help needed

Hello guys! I have a question for you. Let me quicly explain the situation.

I used to be an MS-DOS programmer 15 years ago, using C as a language. I've
been away from daily programming since then and I've not done much with
Windows and .NET development. I've done Access programming and some other
vbscript based development.

I'm back to coding and I will be working with Visual Studio 2008 Pro using
C#. I am willing to work with latest technologies like LINQ and WPF. I will
also be working with ASP.NET for a website.

My question is: apart from Visual Studio 2008 what are the absolute tools
you will recommend me to use? Those top 10 tools I will not be able to work
without?

Thanks for your help!
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fsantos

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:16:16 -0700, fsantos
<fsantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> [...]
> My question is: apart from Visual Studio 2008 what are the absolute tools
> you will recommend me to use? Those top 10 tools I will not be able to
> work
> without?

I can't name 10 tools you can't do without. Honestly, VS has practically
everything you'll need, at least for starting out.

There are a few other tools that can definitely be handy, especially as
you get into the more esoteric areas of C# and .NET. These include .NET
Reflector (decompiler) and Microsoft's ILDASM.EXE (disassembler) And of
course, you should definitely get familiar with how the MSDN web site is
organized. All the information you need is in there, but finding it
relies on knowing where it is (hint: MSDN's search tool is okay, but doing
a site search with Google is often better ). Become familiar with the
..NET Framework library reference and the C# reference and programmer guide
sections of the MSDN web site.

Pete

fsantos kirjoitti:
> Hello guys! I have a question for you. Let me quicly explain the situation.

> My question is: apart from Visual Studio 2008 what are the absolute tools
> you will recommend me to use? Those top 10 tools I will not be able to work
> without?
>
> Thanks for your help!

I don't know its number, but Microsoft's FxCop
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FxCop) might help you in coding.

--
Arto Viitanen

fsantos skrev:
> Hello guys! I have a question for you. Let me quicly explain the situation.
>
> I used to be an MS-DOS programmer 15 years ago, using C as a language. I've
> been away from daily programming since then and I've not done much with
> Windows and .NET development. I've done Access programming and some other
> vbscript based development.
>
> I'm back to coding and I will be working with Visual Studio 2008 Pro using
> C#. I am willing to work with latest technologies like LINQ and WPF. I will
> also be working with ASP.NET for a website.
>
> My question is: apart from Visual Studio 2008 what are the absolute tools
> you will recommend me to use? Those top 10 tools I will not be able to work
> without?
>
> Thanks for your help!

I would recommend Resharper

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

It helps you a lot on arranging code and using C# statements you as an
old C programmer would not think about.

However there are things with resharper I dislike where the worst thing
is that the Object Browser window is opened when you want to see the
declaration of a system object, but it can be disabled.
--
Bjørn Brox

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:16:16 -0700, fsantos wrote:

> My question is: apart from Visual Studio 2008 what are the absolute
> tools you will recommend me to use? Those top 10 tools I will not be
> able to work without?

Books for research, a good search engine and clear questions here.

I have converted from Unix, C & perl three months ago and I have not
found anything that I would need in common development. Like everything
I am certain I am doing it the hard way most of the time (rewritten all
the code I wrote in the first month into far fewer lines now...).

This is a steep learning curve, I am just feeling comfortable with the
whole thing now but it has been a frustrating experience. Nullable
datetime was the irritating problem, the datasource position just does
not change and there is nothing to indicate why.

Ken

Thanks everyone for your sugestions. I do have one more question:

- What tool would you recommend out of Infragistics, ComponentOne and
DevXpress tool suites?

I think I will need to have one of these to ease my development and I would
like to go with the best one. All seem quite good to me, but maybe experience
tells otherwise.

Regards
--
fsantos


"fsantos" wrote:

> Hello guys! I have a question for you. Let me quicly explain the situation.
>
> I used to be an MS-DOS programmer 15 years ago, using C as a language. I've
> been away from daily programming since then and I've not done much with
> Windows and .NET development. I've done Access programming and some other
> vbscript based development.
>
> I'm back to coding and I will be working with Visual Studio 2008 Pro using
> C#. I am willing to work with latest technologies like LINQ and WPF. I will
> also be working with ASP.NET for a website.
>
> My question is: apart from Visual Studio 2008 what are the absolute tools
> you will recommend me to use? Those top 10 tools I will not be able to work
> without?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> --
> fsantos