Sitecore Development Tools

Last week I was honored to be a part of the Sitecore Development Tools Round Table discussion at the 2013 Sitecore Users Virtual Summit. Talking with a team of seasoned Sitecore developers, we discussed the tools and add-ons that we each use during our everyday Sitecore development.

Below is the video of the presentation, where Summit MC, Mike Shaw, hosted Alistair Deneys, Charlie Turano, Mike Edwards, Mike Reynolds, Sean Kearney and myself in a very enjoyable discussion.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQnEEzGndNw

If you’d like to look into any of the tools mentioned during the discussion, check them out at the links below. I’ll add more info to each of them when I get a chance. Enjoy!

The main tools

Revolver

http://www.codeflood.net/revolver/download/
The first ever Sitecore scripting tool, written by Alistair Deneys.

Team Development for Sitecore

https://www.hhogdev.com/Products/Team-Development-for-Sitecore/Overview.aspx
A must-use tool for Sitecore Development within a team, created by Hedgehog Development.

Glass Mapper

http://glass.lu/
A popular mapping framework, used on both Sitecore and Umbraco, created by Mike Edwards.

Sitecore Powershell Extensions

http://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Sitecore_PowerShell_console.aspx
A set of helpful Sitecore Powershell extensions, worked on by Adam Najmanovicz, Michael West, Nick Wesselman, Mike Reynolds and many more.

Sitecore Rocks

http://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Sitecore_Rocks.aspx
A Visual Studio plugin for Sitecore development, allowing easy and efficient programming for the CMS. Created by Jakob Christensen.

Razl

http://razl.net/
A Sitecore database compare tool, created by Hedgehog Development.

Other Favourites

Sitecore Instance Manager (SIM)

http://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Sitecore_Instance_Manager.aspx

CopySauce

http://www.igloo.com.au/blog/copysauce-igloos-sitecore-development-utility/

Sitecore Log Analyzer

http://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Sitecore_Log_Analyzer.aspx

Wingrep

http://www.wingrep.com/

BareTail and BearGrep

http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baregrep/

Customized Start Bar

http://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Customized_Startbar.aspx

Slow Cheetah

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/69023d00-a4f9-4a34-a6cd-7e854ba318b5

NCrunch

http://www.ncrunch.net/

Resharper

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

DotPeek

http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/

Fiddler

http://fiddler2.com/

NUnit

http://www.nunit.org/

.NET Reflector

http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflector/

Notepad++

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Luke

http://www.getopt.org/luke/

PostMan Chrome Extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-client/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm?hl=en

Web Essentials

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6ed4c78f-a23e-49ad-b5fd-369af0c2107f

MarkdownPad

http://markdownpad.com/

 

Have I missed one, that was mentioned? Have you got an awesome tool that you’d like to add to the list? Let me know.
Happy (efficient) developing!