Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List
I wish I had seen this blog entry from Scott Hanselman a long time ago.
This list contains some of the coolest developer tools. I think the struggle will be to keep myself from installing too many of them.
Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List
The first one I installed is just incredible — Notepad++. It is a replacement for the Notepad program that comes with Windows, and does every possible thing you'd ever want to do with text files — in a tabbed interface. Developers will especially like the colored text, which can be changed to something like 3 dozen different language varieties.
After installing the new Notepad++ program, it's pretty easy to replace the existing Windows Notepad. First go to c:\windows\system32 and rename notepad.exe to something like notepad_old.exe. Then, in the c:\program files\notepad++ folder, create and then run the following batch file:
copy /-y "notepad++.exe" C:\WINDOWS\System32\dllcache\notepad.exe
copy /-y "notepad++.exe" C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\notepad.exe
copy /-y "notepad++.exe" C:\WINDOWS\System32\notepad.exe
copy /-y "notepad++.exe" C:\WINDOWS\notepad.exe
Voilà! Now every time you open a .TXT file, or select "View Source" from IE it opens in Notepad++.
By the way, only people who are, say, intermediate computer users or better, should attempt this.
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