Shoestring toolkit for startup projects

Integrated Development Environments

• Visual Web Developer 2008, Visual C# Express Edition 2008 (includes .NET 3.5 SP1)
• http://www.microsoft.com/Express/Download/

Database Environment

• SQL Server Express 2008 (available in the above download page)

Web Framework

• ASP.NET MVC – Download
• Download jQuery
• Download jQuery.UI

More Frameworks might be added based on requirements.

ORM

• Castle ActiveRecord – Download

Testing

• NUnit – Download
• PartCover – Download
• Rhino Mocks – Download
  

No code would be accepted without proper tests and high code-coverage. More on it during our discussions.

Source Control

Register with xp-dev.com and give me your username. I would later post the details on how to checkout the source code. I would also show you on how to work with the source control using TortiseSVN tools. All our source code checks into the xp-dev project repository. More details later. For now, download the SVN tools from here.

Additional tools

• Code Analysis – FxCop
• Text Editor – InType
• Command Line - PowerShell (Pick your version - x86 or x64 based on your CPU)
• XAML Editor - KaXAML (for some XAML/WPF/Silverlight learning)
• Paint.NET – Graphics
• .NET Reflector - I will give you later, when required.

Feel free to comment on what you think or if you have good general tools in mind, advice me.

My work till date ...

Below is a list of projects that I have developed/worked on. This is to let me have a good idea on what I have worked on, for the upcoming interviews.

Software Associate
Online banking system using CICS
Legacy Decommissioning of 21C Systems

Freelance Developer
VB.NET Scheduler Program(with GUI and Win Service)
FTP Uploader/Downloader(VB.NET)
IP and System Info(ASP.NET,C# Win Service, Binary Serialization, Set up projects in VS 2005)
C# to VB.NET Conversion(ASP.NET Project)
URL Ping Service(C# Win Forms, Set up package, SMTP Coding)
Localization in .NET(ASP.NET and WinForms examples how-to)
Social Networking (Java Servlets! Orkut clone like Software)
ASP.NET Content Management System(ASP.NET VB.NET)
Postscript Expression Evaluation in C#
ASP.NET GDI+ Cropping(ASP.NET)
Small Various VB.NET Projects
XML Serialization Tutorial and Sample project
Distributed Error Reporting Tool(C#)
Whois Lookup in VB.NET
various book reviews at java-tips.org
Personal Information Manager(VB.NET)
Java Servlets Project(my first work!!)
And few other small help projects.

School/Personal Work
Windows Registry Tweaker in C#
Windows Remote Desktop in C#
Bulk Mail Sender
Mail GUI and Proxy Server
Bulk Image Compressor
Mean Shift Tracker in Java
Blob Library in Java
URL Redirection Detection
Loads of Web Crawlers
Grails - BlockBusted Movie Website
and a few others which i cannot recall at this moment!