Best Tools For The Job

We at Artemis West Ltd believe in using the best tools for the job. Those tools may not be the tools we used in the last project. They may not be Microsoft tools. They are tools that can be used effectively by the team delivering the solution and by the team who need to support the solution. Below are a list of tools we use on a regular basis and recommend to others to try out.

Framework support

• Enterprise Library
• Spring.Net (Dependency Injections etc)
• The Castle Project

Code quality

• FXCop
• Ghost Doc
• ReSharper (C# coding assistance)
• Sandcastle (Documentation)
• Reflector
• The Regulator (Regex)

Web Development

• Firebug (Firefox plugin for Web Dev)
• PageMethods (well-defined ASP.Net URL's)

Testing support

• TestDriven.Net
• NUnit
• Rhino Mocks
• NMock
• NCover
• NCoverExplorer

Code Generation and ORM's

• Subsonic/ActionPack
• NHibernate
• .NetTiers (CodeSmith base templates)
• Base4.Net

Building, Publishing and Deployment

• MSBuild
• SQL Database Publishing Wizard
• Subversion (Versioning control)
• CruiseControl.NET