Windows

Shell

• Shell/Console

  • ConEmu: https://conemu.github.io/

  • Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

  • Clink - windows shell enhancements

Editor

• vim

• Sublime

• Atom

VS Extension

• AnkhSVN, svn in Visual Stuio: https://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/

• Productivity Power Tools: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef/

• ViEmu, bring vim mode home: http://www.viemu.com/

• ReSharper, write C# code more happy: https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

• TestDriven.net, unit tests: http://www.testdriven.net/

Build

• Inno Setup, installer builder. Much better than the default windows one: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
• Inno Script Studio, GUI for inno: https://www.kymoto.org/products/inno-script-studio
• Albacore, task runner so you can do one click build: http://albacorebuild.net/

  • It requires ruby: http://rubyinstaller.org/
  • Install ruby add-on DevKit too: http://rubyinstaller.org/add-ons/devkit/
• Use batch file to call rake tasks so you can do one click build. See bat examples

    @ECHO OFF
  
    REM call rake
    call rake target=internal
  
    PAUSE

Network

• WinSCP: https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

  • NOTE if you use WinSCP to transfter the script to the server, be sure to use "text" transfer settins, otherwise the script might contain dos CRLF line endings, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2920416/configure-bin-shm-bad-interpreter
• SuperPuTTY: https://github.com/jimradford/superputty

Tools

• Paint.net, best photo editing tool on Windows: http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
• LICEcap, make .gif, it's also available on Mac: http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
• TotalCommander, 10x better than file explorer: http://www.ghisler.com/
• AHK, add global hotkey: https://autohotkey.com/

VM

• FREE VM machines (all platform) from Microsoft
• Virtual Box: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• VMWare (commercial)

More

Find more tools from

• Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• https://github.com/RiseLedger/awesome-windows