Supercharge your .NET development

.NET Development

• Humanizr - Humanizer meets all your .NET needs for manipulating and displaying strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities
• Cognitive Complexity - can help to understand – based on calculating a metric value – how readable and maintainable a certain method is.
• NuGet Package Explorer - Create, update and deploy Nuget Packages with a GUI
• Fira Code Font - free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster.

CLI development

• Spectre Console - A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications
• ShellProgressBar - visualize (concurrent) progress in your console application

Testing

• Bogus - A simple and sane fake data generator for C#, F#, and VB.NET. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js.

Roslyn analyzers

• StyleCop - StyleCop is an open-source static code analysis tool from Microsoft that checks C# code for conformance to StyleCop's recommended coding styles and a subset of Microsoft's .NET Framework Design Guidelines.
• CollectionOptimizationCop - dedicated to common performance and code quality analyzers to follow the best practices surrounding the use of data structures and their APIs located under System.Collections & System.Linq.

PowerShell

• PowerShell Core - PowerShell Core is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models.

Benchmarking & Profiling

• BenchmarkDotNet - helps you to transform methods into benchmarks, track their performance, and share reproducible measurement experiments. It's no harder than writing unit tests!
• PerfView - a free performance-analysis tool that helps isolate CPU and memory-related performance issues. It is a Windows tool, but it also has some support for analyzing data collected on Linux machines. It works for a wide variety of scenarios, but has a number of special features for investigating performance issues in code written for the .NET runtime.

Javascript

• Quokkajs - Quokka.js is a developer productivity tool for rapid JavaScript / TypeScript prototyping. Runtime values are updated and displayed in your IDE next to your code, as you type.
• Wallabyjs - Wallaby.js is a developer productivity tool that runs your JavaScript and TypeScript tests immediately as you type, highlighting results in your IDE right next to your code.

Logging

Serilog - a diagnostic logging library for .NET applications. It is easy to set up, has a clean API, and runs on all recent .NET platforms.

Visual Studio Code extensions

• Better comments - The Better Comments extension will help you create more human-friendly comments in your code

Git

• GitLens - It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more

.NET

• OmniSharp - he C# support in Visual Studio Code is optimized for cross-platform .NET Core development

F#

• Ionide F# - onide is more than just an editor plugin - we build a whole ecosystem of developer tools - from a documentation generator, to an F# LSP server, to experimental and innovative projects like F# Analyzers.

Javascript development

• Prettier - Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.
• ESLint - Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code

Git management

• Source Tree - A Git GUI that offers a visual representation of your repositories. Sourcetree is a free Git client for Windows and Mac
• GitKraken - Unleash GitKraken, the free Git GUI for Windows, Mac & Linux! This intuitive Git GUI simplifies and streamlines Git processes.

Visual Studio Extensions

• ReSharper - makes Visual Studio a much better IDE
• CodeMaid - pen source Visual Studio extension to cleanup and simplify our C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, PowerShell, R, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.
• Output enhancer - Extension to add colors to Visual Studio output window.
• Format document on Save - Enables auto formatting of the code when you save a file
• Trailing Whitespace Visualizer - Keeps your code files clean by making it easier than ever to identify and remove any trailing whitespace
• Visual Studio Spell Checker - An editor extension that checks the spelling of comments, strings, and plain text as you type or interactively with a tool window.
• Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 - This extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colours. The user can define which tokens to match, and which colours to use.

F# development

CLI tools

• Argu - declarative CLI argument parser for F# console applications. It allows modelling the command-line syntax using discriminated unions, which the library converts into a working parser using reflection.

Testing

• FsCheck - FsCheck is a tool for testing .NET programs automatically
• FsUnit - a set of libraries that makes unit-testing with F# more enjoyable. It adds a special syntax to your favorite .NET testing framework. FsUnit currently supports NUnit, xUnit, and MsTest.

Power tools

• Process Explorer - Process Explorer is a freeware task manager and system monitor for Microsoft Windows created by SysInternals
• Windows Terminal - Windows Terminal is a multi-tabbed command-line front-end that Microsoft has developed for Windows 10, as a replacement for Windows Console. It can run any command-line app, including all Windows terminal emulators, in a separate tab

Text editing

• Grammarly - Compose bold, clear, mistake-free writing with Grammarly’s AI-powered writing assistant.

Security

• LastPass - LastPass is a freemium password manager that stores encrypted passwords online.

UML Design

• Draw.io - ree online diagram software. You can use it as a flowchart maker, network diagram software, to create UML online, as an ER diagram tool, to design database schema, to build BPMN online, as a circuit diagram maker, and more