I finished reinstalling my portable with Windows 7 over the weekend and I must admit it was a smooth experience. So what do I install on my Windows 7:
- Windows Live Writer – my favorite blog writing tool – I also use the Insert Code for Windows Live Writer plugin. There are a whole bunch of other Windows Live Writer Extensions available online
- RSS Bandit – my RSS reading tool of choice
- Office 2010 Beta 2 – including the Hotmail connector so I can read my mails in Outlook 2010
- Thwirl – my twitter client
- VMWare Workstation – I know I can do SharePoint 2010 development on my Windows 7 but I still prefer to work virtually. Anyone care to comment about using Virtualbox as an alternative?
- Camtasia and Snagit – excellent software for creating screencasts and screenshots.
- Winrar – extraction and compression program
- Mindjet MindManager – great tool for creating mindmaps
- Adobe Reader
- Zune Client software – don’t forget to install Windows Media Player first
- Spacesniffer – interesting little utility for diagnosing disk usage
I have to admit that as a SharePoint guy I do most of my work within my virtual machines so all the dev tools are installed on these machines. Although SharePoint 2010 can be installed on my Windows 7 I still prefer to use virtual machines – see Setting up the Development environment for SharePoint Server 2010.
Any other tools you can’t live without on your machine?
you could try tweetdeck instead of twhirl..
ReplyDeleteand a messenger application as well to stay in touch with the co-workers
What, no graphics package? I couldn't do web dev without one (Paintshop Pro is still my favourite, but that's just personal preference).
ReplyDeleteI suppose it's sort of a development tool, but not something I'm going to install into VMs.
A decent text editor in the host is a must for me too. I don't want to have to fire up a VM for that! My personal favourite is still Textpad, but I mean to have a look for better.
TrueCrypt, for storing all those passwords, etc..
TortoiseSVN.
(It is always interesting to see what other people use...)
What's Office 2010 beta like? I've been waiting for them to sync up Outlook with external email accounts for a while
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ReplyDeleteI use VirtualBox and have no issues.
Installation was smooth. You can even take snapshots. Before buying VMWare Workstation I wanted to give this a try, for now I am keeping this.
Regards
Srini
Notepad++
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FoxitReader
WinMerge
Digsby
Paint.Net for some simple graphics stuff.
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