Top 20 Developer Tools of 2016

Here are the list of top 20 Developer utilities that are must to have for Developer.

1. GitKraken: The downright luxurious Git GUI client for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
2. Atom: A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.
3. VS Code: A free, lightweight tool for editing and debugging web apps.
4. Git: A free and open source distributed version control system.
5. GitHub: A web-based Git repository hosting service.
6. Visual Studio: Developer tools and services for any platform with any language.
7. Sublime Text: A sophisticated text editor for code, markup, and prose.
8. Chrome DevTools: A set of web authoring and debugging tools built into Google Chrome.
9. Docker :An open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship, and run distributed applications.
10. GitLab: Git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds, and wikis.
11. IntelliJ IDEA: A Java IDE.
12. PhpStorm : A commercial, cross-platform IDE for PHP.
13. Postman: A powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier.
14. ReSharper : A Visual Studio extension for .NET developers.
15. Slack: Real-time messaging, archiving, and search for modern teams.
16. PyCharm: An IDE used specifically for Python.
17. Android Studio: The official IDE for Android platform development.
18. Notepad++: A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
19. Xcode : an IDE for macOS/and iOS development.
20. Stack Overflow: The largest online community for programmers to learn, share their knowledge, and advance their careers.

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How to: Show the Developer Tab on the Ribbon

To access the Developer tab on the ribbon of an Office application, you must configure it to show that tab because it doesn't appear by default.

1. Right click anywhere on the ribbon, and then click Customize the Ribbon. 

2. Under Customize the Ribbon, on the right side of the dialog box

3. Check the Developer check box. 

4. Click OK.

5. You can find the Developer tab next to the View tab. 

Hope this helps!!

How to load Visual Studio without extensions

All versions of visual studio can be started with a set of arguments.

Using devenv.exe /SafeMode allows you to run any version of visual studio (devenv.exe) in SafeMode that will disable 3rd party plugins.

Using devenv.exe /ResetSettings will restore Visual Studio default settings

Run these commands from Command prompt in admin mode. For additional options refer MSDN for help.

Useful Visual Studio Extensions

The Visual Studio Gallery is the best place to find tools, controls, extensions and templates to help make your life as a developer easier and more productive.

These extensions are almost always language/platform agnostic and just make Visual Studio better and/or easier to work in. A lot of these owned by Microsoft, Microsoft DevLabs, or Microsoft employees or individuals. These extensions generally fall into language specific or technology specific extensions. That really means they may only b useful to you at certain times.

• Add Empty File
• AutoHistory (Microsoft DevLabs)
• ClipboardHistory
• Code Metrics Viewer 2013
• jQuery Code Snippets
• Commentator
• EditorConfig
• File Nesting
• ItalicComments
• License Header Manager
• Microsoft CodeLens Code Health Indicator (Microsoft DevLabs)
• Move Type To File
• NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio 2013 (Microsoft)
• Pretty Paste
• CssCop
• Bootstrap Snippet Pack
• Productivity Power Tools 2013 (Microsoft)
• Productivity Power Tools 2015 (Microsoft)
• Visual Studio Spell Checker
• Visual Studio Tools for Git (Microsoft)
• VSCommands for Visual Studio 2013
• Trailing Whitespace Visualizer
• Application Insights for Visual Studio (Microsoft)
• NUnit Test Adapter
• Shared Project Reference Manager
• Snippetizer (Microsoft)
• Web Essentials 2013 for Update 3
• Web Essentials 2015.3
• XAML Regions
• Code Cracker for C#
• .NET Portability Analyzer (Microsoft)
• XAML Formatter
• Refactoring Essentials
• ASP.NET MVC Boilerplate (predefined template pack)
• SideWaffle Template Pack (predefined template pack)

These are only few that I found useful and helpful. But there are lot out there Visual Studio Market Place.