Sharepoint development toolbox

While digging in the internet gold mine called blogs found this very nice post on Joris Poelmans blog, he compiled a list of the tools any Sharepoint developer really need to make his/her life easier, thank you Joris for this nice post.

 

 

Build and Packaging Tools

• STSDEV
• AppPool Recycle Utility
• Solution Installer
• WSPBuilder
• AC's Project Utility
• Visual Studio Extensions for WSS (VSEWSS) 1.1 and VSEWSS 1.2 and VSEWSS 1.3 CTP Feb 2009

CAML/Search Tools

• U2U Query Builder
• YACQT
• Search Service Tool
• SharePoint Search Coder
• CAML.NET
• LINQ to SharePoint
• Search Community Toolkit
• CAML.NET Intellisense for SharePoint 

Visual Studio Optimisations

• AC's CodeRush Tools
• SPDevMod
• Imtech Fields Explorer for Visual Studio 2008

Content/Config Replication

• Content Deploy Wizard
• CMP Package Explorer
• Cross Site Configurator
• SPS Tips Utility Pack

SharePoint Extensions

• SP Features
• Smart Tools
• SP Config Store
• Enhanced CQWP

Testing Tools

• Test Data Population
• Imtech Test Content

Inspection Tools

• SharePoint Manager
• SharePoint Inspector
• SP Explorer Client (IE)

Governance/Manageabilty

• SP Governance Tools
• Reporting Framework
• MS Asset Inventory
• MS Monitoring Kit: Only usefull if you are also using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
• SP Admin Toolkit v3 (incl SPDiagnostics)

STSADM and Powershell Tools

• AC’s STSADM
• Imtech STSADM
• Gary LP’s STSADM
• STSADM Win
• SP Powershell Extensions