Free Tools For Developers

Unlike Scott Hanseleman's long list of useful tools, following are just a few free utilities I use most during my work:

.NET related:

• Reflector (http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/): an excellent tool to view the source code from .NET assemblies.

Web related:

• IE Developer Toolbar Beta (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038): an IE add-on to view/edit page's DOM objects, JavaScript, CSS, etc.
  
• FireBug(http://www.joehewitt.com/software/firebug/): a FireFox add-on with similar functions of IE developer toolbar. You can debug JavaScript easily with latest version of 0.4.
  
• Fiddler (http://www.fiddlertool.com/): a traffic monitor tool to view all data transferred between your IE browser and a server.
  

File related:

• WinMerge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge/): a tool to compare and merge the files.
  
• NotePad++ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/): a notepad that's much powerful than Microsoft's.