Five auxiliary tools that must be known by. Net programmers

Some people often summarize the Top Ten tools that. Net programmers must use. However, apart from development tools, there are actually many auxiliary tools that can help you improve efficiency. Let's take a look at these five auxiliary tools.

 

In the past, I have read many articles about the top ten essential tools for developing common professional software such as. NET and. Net programmers. Today, I don't want to introduce these professional software. I want to introduce some auxiliary software that is often used during development to help us complete better development.

I recommend commonly used auxiliary software. It may not be the best, but I think it is the best for me!

I. Browser

Recommended: Proud travel browser (http://www.maxthon.cn /)

Candidate Recommendations: sogou browser, Firefox, chrome

As a necessary tool for programmers to access the Internet, a good browser is an indispensable helper for us to obtain resources. I recommend that ao you not use powerful program debugging or rich plug-ins, it is about the favorite and daily application of aoyou.

Ao you's favorites are a good feature I think. You only need to register an account to synchronize the local favorites to the network server. During the daily Internet access process, we often see good articles and want to add them to favorites. Although many websites provide the favorites function, this website is based on the fact that you must open this website and log on to it to see it, in addition, the collected information can only be from this website (it seems a bit nonsense ). The favorites of aoyou can be synchronized, which ensures that even if the favorites of the local machine is lost, you can log on to the account to retrieve it again.

In addition, ao you's account not only has the function of synchronizing data to favorites, but we always have our own browser habits (commonly used websites, mouse gestures, etc.) in our daily use process ), these habits will help you remember if you log on to your account, and I think they are a very user-friendly feature. At the same time, as a browser recommended by Microsoft win7, aoyou can also ensure its functionality.

The candidates here are sogou browsers, Firefox, chrome, and sogou, which are both highly secure and fast-looking. However, they are not very good compared with aoyou. As for Firefox and chrome, these two models must be installed by programmers, but I do not recommend them because these two Browsers Do not have powerful functions than the proud games, A variety of plug-ins are needed for assistance. However, once a variety of plug-ins are installed, the browser startup speed may slow down. Therefore, I suggest you use the best browser information, if you need to develop a program, you can use Firefox or chrome.

Ii. notepad

Recommended: notepad2 (http://www.onlinedown.net/soft/31490.htm)

Recommended candidates: emeditor and notepad ++

For our developers, we often need to write things. At this time, we will not open vs, Eclipse, these professional development tools. We will choose a small tool such as Notepad for simple code writing, I recommend notepad2 for the following reasons:

1. Code highlighting. notepad2 supports all mainstream development languages, such as C #, VB. NET, PHP, JSP, and HTML. You can freely change the code highlighting configuration.

2. completely replace the system's built-in notepad. The windows built-in notepad function is really bad. It can only provide basic editing functions (worthy of being notepad ), notepad2 can perfectly replace the default Windows notepad (only one executable program + one configuration file), not only because it has all the functions of the system's built-in notepad, because of its superior performance, powerful functions, and small size, for example, opening a few M or even larger texts won't be as stuck as the built-in notepad, unable to respond to other situations, you can use Ctrl + scroll wheel to zoom in and out the text, and so on.

For specific replacement methods, see: here

3. Excellent text editing environment. notepad2 not only provides code highlighting, text background, paragraph indent, and multi-encoding support, but also is an indispensable tool for programmers to write simple code and simple text.

But notepad2 still has its drawbacks. It does not support Automatic Code prompts, but it is also a benefit. To support code prompts, the size of the entire program will not be so small.

In addition to notepad2, I also recommended emeditor, notepad ++, and emeditor to be installed on my computer. Although the plug-in can be used to improve its own functions (such as code prompts, Automatic completion, HTML preview, etc.), but because the plug-in is too slow to start when the entire program is installed, and too many plug-ins are really "dazzling ".

Notepad ++ is more powerful than notepad2, but it is a bit cumbersome because of its powerful functionality and many ancillary programs.

Iii. Search Tools

Recommended: Everything (http://dl.pconline.com.cn/html_2/1/93/id=1769&pn=0.html)

Candidate recommendation: Windows built-in search

I don't know how many things are in the computer of other developers, but I know how many things are in my computer. The whole computer has hundreds of GB of space full of various things, if you suddenly think about finding something and don't remember where it was originally stored, it's estimated that you haven't found it after dinner by using the built-in Windows Search Tool. Even if you find it, it may not be what you want, here I recommend everything, a very good search tool, and a few hundred K in size.

Before each usage, everything scans your entire computer and stores all the data for index updates to the SQLite database. You can search for keywords to perform full scanning (regular expressions are also supported ), you can find what you need in a few seconds.

At the same time, everything can also be used as a small server. You can use your computer as a server for others to download things.

Although everything can easily help you search for files that match the keyword, you cannot search for the content in the text. At this time, you need other tools.

For more information, click here.

As for the Windows built-in search recommended by candidates, I will not introduce it, as we all know. However, win7 search is still very good.

Iv. Thinking Analysis

Recommended: mindjet mindmanager (http://www.onlinedown.net/soft/82527.htm)

Recommended candidates: Visio

It takes a long time to think during development, but it is a very troublesome thing to think about. It is often interrupted or disturbed, which leads to a new thought, at the same time, it is easy to confuse thinking with the brain alone. Many people will always record the things they think in the brain with pen and paper. Although they play a role in assisting in thinking, however, I cannot communicate with people because of my casual thinking. Here I recommend mindjet mindmanager, which is called Mind Map.

Mindjet mindmanager can easily help you record the thinking information in sequence or logic, and it can be seamlessly integrated with Office (such as Word, Powerpoint, Excel, outlook, Project ), the secondary record, and because it is software, when you use it to record what you think, it is recorded in graphical form, in this way, you can save the image as an image format to communicate with others.

As for the Visio recommended by candidates, although it can easily help us to analyze problems, the operation is far from as simple as mindjet mindmanager, and Visio is too professional.

V. Shortcut Key tools

Recommended: autohotkey (http://www.onlinedown.net/soft/39219.htm)

Recommended candidates: slickrun and add2run

As a programmer who has been working through the keyboard for a long time, we always hope to perform operations more quickly to save time. For example, I prefer to perform operations through the keyboard, because I think it is a waste of time to move my hands away from the keyboard and then operate with the mouse, I would rather remember a lot of shortcuts in my mind. Unfortunately, these shortcuts can only be used in a software, in the system environment, I want to quickly open the software that I often use and it cannot be implemented. In this case, I use the shortcut key software. Here I recommend autohotkey, A script to implement quick Functions

(Of course, it also has other powerful functions. I have previously written related articles: autohotkey-faster operations, and you can write your own scripts to rest your mouse)

The advantage of autohotkey is that it can implement many functions by means of programming. I can write many common shortcut keys in a single file and compile the code into exe, after each boot, execute the self-compiled EXE, and the required shortcut keys are already running, in this way, we can quickly start the program through the keyboard (of course we can do many other things ).

The recommended slickrun and add2run are two UI shortcut key setting programs, which are more convenient to operate. However, I think autohotkey can do more, so we recommend autohotkey.

For more information about slickrun and add2run, see: here

The above are the commonly used auxiliary software for development. I recommend the software that I think is good and may be different from what you think. You are welcome to discuss and introduce your commonly used auxiliary software, share with others!