My Current Windows Development Machine Software Stack

I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit.  It had been a really long time since I listed the current tools, SDKs, and frameworks that I’ve been using.  Thus here’s my entourage of software that I use on a regular basis that is installed on my primary development machines.

Basic Software & System OS

• Windows 7 64-bit
• Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
  • ReSharper 5.1
  • Visual Studio 2010 Plugins
    • VS Code Map
    • Productivity Power Tools
    • PowerCommands for Visual Studio
    • Regex Editor
    • Dev Color (Color Picker)
    • NuGet
  • Gallio (w/ mbUnit)
  • NBuilder (for building up test data for in memory SQLite)
  • TestDriven.NET
  • SQLite for .NET with Design Time
  • Rhino Mocks
  • Windows Azure SDK 1.3
  • Windows Azure AppFabric
  • AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK 1.2
  • Inversion of Control Containers:  Autofac & Castle Project Windsor
  • Elmah
  • Topshelf for WCF Deployment
• Expression Ultimate 4
• Office 2010 (Rarely, I try to stick to Google Docs, to maintain usability across devices)

Administration Utilities

• Virtual Clone Drive (For mounting *.iso images)
• FileZilla for FTP
• VirtualBox for Virtualization
• WinRar

Themes & Such

• Stardock‘s WindowBlinds
• Visual Studio Color Theme Editor (Visual Studio Plugin) w/ Blend Theme (download)
• Visual Studio Style Embers

In addition to these packages of software another as important, if not more important to my day-to-day software development includes these software services and cloud hosting services.

SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS

• Highrise HQ by 37signals
• Unfuddle Project Management with Git Fast Version Control System
• Github for Sharing Source & Open Source Projects
• Gmail, Gdocs, and Gcal by Google
• Smugmug for image hosting
• Amazon Web Services EC2, S3, and other services
• Windows Azure Web Roles, Table, Blog, and other Storage & Service

Software I will be adding to the stack within the next few days, weeks, and months.

• Ruby on Rails
• Cucumber