12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers

12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers from Jesse Liberty

Tortoise SVN
ExamDiff Pro
TimeSnapper
Snip it pro
Evernote
Mozy
Mikago

Performance tuning tricks for Web App

Mads Kristensen talked about perfornace tuning tricks. This is the second part of the series and is quite useful. The download zip contains tools mentioned in his post.

The post also have links to some good performance articles and tools like Microsoft Ajax Minifier, YUI Compressor and Google Closure Compiler.

Scale out in SQL Server 2005

There is an msdn article about scale out architecture for SQL Server 2005. The link is here Scale Out SQL Server 2005

Microsoft provide an open souce CMS

MS developed an open source CMS codenamed "Oxite". It's at alpha version stage.

From Microsoft’s description of Oxite:

“Oxite provides you with a strong foundation you can build upon - pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting (with optional moderation), gravatar support, RSS feeds at any page level, support for MetaWebLog API (think Windows Live Writer integration made easy), web admin panel, support for Open Search format allowing users to search your site using their browser’s search box, and more - so, you can spend time on designing a great experience.”

Please go to here for some detail

Free refactor in Visual Studio

There aren't many articles about build-in refactor tool in VS 2008. I find one post Refactoring In Visual Studio 2008. This can be used as a start point to this refactoring tool.

Also, DevExpress provided a free Refactor! for VS 2005. I found it originally from Free refactoring tools for ASP.NET code in Visual Studio 2005. Not sure if it works fine in VS 2008.