While digging in the Internet gold mine called blogs found this very nice post on Joris poelmans blog, he compiled a list of the tools any SharePoint developer really need to make his/her life easier, thank you Joris for this nice post.
Build and packaging tools
- Stsdev
- ApppoolRecycle Utility
- Solution Installer
- Wspbuilder
- AC's project Utility
- Visual Studio extensions for WSS (vsewss) 1.1AndVsewss 1.2AndVsewss 1.3 CTP Feb 2009
Caml/search tools
- U2uQueryBuilder
- Yacqt
- Search Service Tool
- SharePoint search coder
- Caml. net
- LINQ to SharePoint
- Search communityToolkit
- Caml. Net intelliisense for Sharepoint
Visual Studio optimisations
- AC'sCoderushTools
- Spdevmod
- Imtech fields Explorer for Visual Studio 2008
Content/config Replication
- Content deploy wizard
- CMP package Explorer
- Cross SiteAggregator
- SPS tips utility pack
SharePoint extensions
- SP features
- Smart tools
- SPConfigStore
- Enhanced cqwp
Testing tools
- Test data population
- Imtech test content
Inspection tools
- SharePoint Manager
- SharePoint inspector
- SP explorer client (IE)
Governance/manageabilty
- SP governance tools
- Reporting framework
- MS asset inventory
- MS monitoring kit.: Only usefull if you are also using System Center Operations Manager (scom)
- SP admin toolkit V3 (Incl Spdiagnostics)
Stsadm and powershell tools
- AC's stsadm
- imtech stsadm
- Gary LP's stsadm
- stsadm win
- sp powershell extensions
