Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9780596527549 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596527543 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1308 Publication Date: December 21, 2006 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 236031 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionSoftware developers need to work harder and harder to bring value to their development process in order to build high quality applications and remain competitive. Developers can accomplish this by improving their productivity, quickly solving problems, and writing better code.
A wealth of open source and free software tools are available for developers who want to improve the way they create, build, deploy, and use software. Tools, components, and frameworks exist to help developers at every point in the development process. Windows Developer Power Tools offers an encyclopedic guide to more than 170 of these free tools to help developers build top-notch Windows software from desktop applications to web services.
To help you choose the right tools for solving both common and uncommon problems you face each day, this book follows a unique task-oriented organization, laying out topics in the same order that you and your team are likely to encounter them as you work on a project. Each tool entry features a solid introduction -- a mini user's guide -- so you can get up to speed quickly and understand how to best use the tool in your environment. Inside, you'll find:
A guide to more than 170 tools covering 24 unique aspects of Windows and .NET software development, with many descriptions contributed by the tools' authors
Descriptions of freely available ASP.NET and Windows Forms controls, object relational mapping systems, testing frameworks, and build and continuous integration tools
Articles on tools to help developers troubleshoot misbehaving applications
Guides for utilities to boost productivity in the development environment as well as speeding up tasks in Windows itself
'Quick pick' lists at the start of each chapter to help you find and choose the right tool for your task
'At a Glance' and 'In a Nutshell' summaries to help readers more quickly narrow their options
References to an online book site to keep you up-to-date with new releases and features
Forewords by Mike Gunderloy (Larkware) and Scott Hanselman (http://www.hanselman.com/tools), operators of the two most popular tools sites for Microsoft developers.
Also, plenty of links in each article point you to additional detail online if you wish to delve more deeply into features and functionality. This one-stop resource covers a wide range of open source and freeware tools to help you answer questions around planning, developing, testing, and rolling out great software. Best of all, they're free.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Excellent Reference to .NET Productivity Tools
DISCLAIMER: I personally know both authors.
The book presents an exensive list of tools available to the .NET programmer. I agree with one of the reviewer that indicates that as soon as the book is published it is out of date; hence, some of the tools may be significantly changed or replaced by better tools. However, this problem is not unique to this book but applies to any book, particularly in technology. In spite of this obsolescence, the book provides a summary for what each ... Read More
Rating: - Worth Every Penny!!
'Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows development with more than 170 free and open source tools' is one of the most cost-efficient books I have ever read in my life. As the title says, this book is jam-packed with some of the most helpful and needy tools that you can ever find for Windows all put into one huge TOME of a book (1250+ pages).
Spread over 23 chapters, content is broken up into topics like Windows Form, creating documentation, testing, bug tracking, XML, etc. ... Read More
Rating: - Bookshelf essentials - Windows Developer Power Tools
Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows development with more than 140 free and open source tools (Power Tools)
Overview
Open-source and free developer/performance tools can be found in abundance on the internet today but one of the few issues that generally comes up after you've gotten hold of one is "how does this work?".
On occasion you'll start to use a tool or add-in only to find out later on that there's a much better way to utilise the power you ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Productivity Booster
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Until reading this book, I did not realize how much productivity I stood to gain.
When I first agreed to review this book I didn't know what I was really getting into. I expected a brief catalog of fairly standard, well-known tools which would only come as a surprise to fresh graduate. I expected I getting a small pocket-sized book which I could devour in one train ride. I could not have been more wrong.
The book covers over 170 Open Source tools across a wide ... Read More
Rating: - Great for anybody who wants to be more productive
I'm big into using the right tools for the right jobs. One can find a gazillion of tools out there on the internet, so it's hard to decide which ones are actually worth checking out. This book remedies that by giving you a consolidated list of tools that everybody developer should at least have a look at.
I also blogged about this book at:
http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E2A4B22308B39CD2!356.entry
- Excellent Reference to .NET Productivity Tools
- Great for anybody who wants to be more productive
