Are you a .NET developer interested in crafting high-quality, modern web applications? I've got 30 tools I want to show you in just 60 short minutes. I'll introduce you to these 30 tools that I think will help make your software and life better. Buckle your seat belts and come prepared to jot down some notes on the items that will be the most helpful to you. You might want to reference them later, because we'll be moving fast!

1. 30 Tools for Modern .NET
Web Development
in 60 Minutes
J. Tower, Falafel Software

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3. Hi, I’m J. Tower
I’m busy giving a presentation right now, but let’s connect later:
 jtower@jtower.com
 @jtowermi
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4. Really? 30 Tools in Just 60
Minutes?! Yup.
30 Tools in 7 Categories
 HTML
 CSS
 JavaScript
 Visual Studio Extensions
 Debugging
 Testing Tools
 Utilities

5. 0. ASP.NET MVC!
WebForms is to VB.NET as MVC is to C#:
 MVC pattern better promotes separation of concerns
 MVC give more control over rendered HTML
 MVC embraces the stateless nature of HTTP (read: no viewstate)
 http://www.asp.net/mvc

6. HTML
The greatest markup language, besides all the others

7. 1. HTML5 Boilerplate
 http://html5boilerplate.com/
 It’s a template. You know, for
websites.

8. 2. (Twitter) Bootstrap
 http://getbootstrap.com/
 A sleek, intuitive, and
powerful mobile-first
front-end framework for
faster and easier web
development

9. 3. html5shim
 https://code.google.com/p/html5shim/
 HTML5 IE enabling script

10. 4. caniuse.com
 http://caniuse.com/

11. CSS
Styling the web since 1996

12. 5. LESS and
6. SASS
 http://lesscss.org/
 http://sass-lang.com/
 CSS is dead; long live CSS

13. JavaScript
My favorite language that’s preinstalled in every browser

14. 7. JSBin and
8. JSFiddle
 http://jsbin.com/
 http://jsfiddle.net/

15. 9. MV* Frameworks
 AngularJS
 KnockoutJS
 Backbone.js
 Ember.js
 Kendo UI

16. 10. Modularized JavaScipt
 Self-executing functions
 RequireJS to the rescue

17. 11. JSLint and
12. JSHint
 http://www.jslint.com/
 http://www.jshint.com/
 A linter flags suspicious constructs
likely to be bugs

18. 13. CoffeeScript and
14. TypeScript
 "CoffeeScript is to Ruby
as TypeScript is to
Java/C#/C++.“
- Luke Hoban

19. 15. Underscore.js
(and now Lowdash)
 Like LINQ?
 Try Underscore
(and Lowdash)
var isFound = _(articles).any(function (article) { return article.isRead };
var isFound = articles.Any((article) => { return article.IsRead; });

20. 16. Moment.js
 http://momentjs.com/
 Like class DateTime
for JavaScript
moment().format('MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a');
moment().format('L');
moment("Dec 25, 1995");
moment("2010 13", "YYYY MM").isValid();
moment.utc();
moment().add('days', 7);

21. Visual Studio Extensions
Making the greatest IDE greatest-er

22. 17. Productivity Power Tools
 Peek Help
 Solution Explorer Errors
 Structure Visualizer
 Double click to
maximize windows
 Timestamp margin
 Quick tasks – Edit
Present On
 Ctrl + Click to Peek
Definition
 HTML Copy
improvements
 Recently Closed
Documents
 Match Margin
 Power Commands
context menu cleanup
 Quick Tasks
 Power Commands
 Color printing
 Middle-Click Scrolling
 Organize Imports for
Visual Basic
 Custom Document Well
 Tools Options Support
 HTML Copy
 Fix Mixed Tabs
 Ctrl + Click Go To
Definition
 Align Assignments
 Column Guides
 Colorized Parameter
Help

23. 18. Web Essentials
Stylesheets
 Alphabetize properties
 Vendor specific property generation
 Embed url() references as base64
strings
 Color and font preview on mouse
hover
 Support for regions
 Brace matching
 Code collapsing
 Convert between hex, rgb and
named colors
JavaScript
 Support for regions
 Code collapsing
 Brace matching
 Same-word-highlighting
 Right-click folder to add
 Much more!

24. 19. NuGet
 http://www.nuget.org/
 Package management

25. 20. EF Reverse POCO
Generator
 http://efreversepoco.codeplex.com/
 Generates POCOs for your context and
entity classes from a SQL Server database

26. 21. Indent Guides
 http://indentguide.codeplex.com/

27. 22. GhostDoc
 http://submain.com/GhostDoc/
 Automatically generates XML documentation
comments for methods and properties

28. 23. Resharper
 http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

29. Debugging
The opposite of what I usually do, en-buggening

30. 24. OzCode
 http://www.oz-code.com/

31. 25. Fiddler and 26. Postman
 http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
 A free web debugging tool which logs all HTTP(S)
traffic between your computer and the Internet
 https://github.com/a85/POSTMan-Chrome-Extension
 A Chrome extension that helps you be more
efficient while working with APIs

32. Testing
I think this trend might catch on

33. 27. Visual Studio’s Unit Test
Projects
 You are just one checkbox
away from being a better
developer: add unit tests!
 It’s easy—it’s built-in to
Visual Studio
 Start small, build

34. Utilities
Utilities: always useful…by definition

35. 28. smtp4dev
 http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/
 Dummy SMTP server that sits in the system tray.
Does not deliver the received messages, but allows
received messages to be viewed, saved and the
source/structure inspected

36. 29. BeyondCompare
 http://www.scootersoftware.com/

37. 30. LinqPad
 https://www.linqpad.net
 Well, you don't have to! LINQPad lets you interactively
query databases in amodern query language: LINQ.
Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio!

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41. Thanks for coming. Any
questions?
I’m online at these places:
 jtower@jtower.com
 @jtowermi
 jtower.com
 blog.falafel.com/jtower