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title: ".NET development - Extra tools?"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/26/net-development-extra-tools.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/26/net-development-extra-tools.html"
published: "2003-10-26T09:42:00"
updated: "2003-10-26T09:42:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Arthur Warren asked a simple question on the win_tech_off_topic mailing list: “ While I'm annoying people with questions / polls, I'd be curious to know what extra tools people tend to use. We're not fully buying into…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# .NET development - Extra tools?

By Roy Osherove October 26, 2003 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 26, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Arthur Warren asked a simple question on the win\_tech\_off\_topic mailing list:

“_While I'm annoying people with questions / polls, I'd be curious to know what extra tools people tend to use. We're not fully buying into the extreme programming model here, but are at least going to be doing TDD for the next few projects to see how it goes. With that in mind, I'm playing with NUnit; anything else that people use that'd be helpful? NDoc? Log4Net?_ “

What he got back was a big monster list of replies, each of which contained a small gem inside it. [Chris Burrows](http://www.madtechnology.net/blog/) thought the list was too good to forget, so he [put up the list on his web page](http://madtechnology.net/blog/posts/261.aspx). I agree with 90% of them (10% I never got to use..).  I **especially** agree with the fact that the [The Regulator](http://royo.is-a-geek.com/regulator) is in there :)

## More in Cool Tools

[All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

- Nov 5, 2003

    ### [\[Tool\] The Regulator 1.02a is out](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/5/tool-the-regulator-102a-is-out.html)

- Oct 27, 2003

    ### [Regulator Coming along nicely](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/regulator-coming-along-nicely.html)

- Oct 25, 2003

    ### [The Regulator is BACK!](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/25/the-regulator-is-back.html)

- Oct 23, 2003

    ### [\[Tool\] Introducing The Regulator - advanced regex tool](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/23/tool-introducing-the-regulator-advanced-regex-tool.html)


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