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title: "More useful tools (and these are all free)"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/17/more-useful-tools-and-these-are-all-free.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/17/more-useful-tools-and-these-are-all-free.html"
published: "2003-09-17T17:53:00"
updated: "2003-09-17T17:53:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "following in the footsteps of Scott Hanselman who posted his list of Power Tools that he uses, I decided to post a partial list of the ones I use. How mine probably will differ is that mine will be all *free* utilities.…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# More useful tools (and these are all free)

By Roy Osherove September 17, 2003 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 17, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

_following in the footsteps of_ [_Scott Hanselman_](http://radio.weblogs.com/0106747/) _who posted his list of_ [_Power Tools_](http://radio.weblogs.com/0106747/stories/2003/09/09/scottHanselmansUltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolsList.html) _that he uses, I decided to_ [_post a partial list_](http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/posts/27986.aspx) _of the ones I use.  How mine probably will differ is that mine will be all \*free\* utilities.  They are broken down into command line, .NET Utils, and windows utils._  

\[ [Brenton House](http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/posts/27988.aspx) \]

Yummy!

## More in Cool Tools

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

- Sep 22, 2003

    ### [NAnt-addin: another coolness in the making?](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/22/nant-addin-another-coolness-in-the-making.html)

- Sep 18, 2003

    ### [XmlUnit](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/18/xmlunit.html)

- Sep 16, 2003

    ### [A list of regular expression tools](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/16/a-list-of-regular-expression-tools.html)

- Sep 10, 2003

    ### [Scott Hanselman's C:\\Utils](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/10/scott-hanselmans-cutils.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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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/