## Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows development with more than 170 free and open source tools
**Introducing Windows Developer Power Tools: The Ultimate Toolkit for Supercharging Your Windows Development**
**Empower Yourself with an Arsenal of Free and Open Source Tools**
Windows Developer Power Tools is an indispensable compendium of over 170 meticulously curated tools designed to ignite your Windows development workflow. This comprehensive toolkit empowers you with a vast array of utilities, libraries, and frameworks, each meticulously engineered to enhance your productivity and accelerate your development cycle.
**Unleash Your True Potential with Feature-Rich Tools**
Windows Developer Power Tools unlocks a world of possibilities, providing you with an unparalleled level of control and customization over your development environment. Explore an exhaustive range of tools that cater to every aspect of the development process, from coding to testing and debugging.
**Elevate Your Coding Prowess with Enhanced Code Editors**
Harness the power of advanced code editors such as Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text, which boast a plethora of features designed to streamline your coding experience. Enjoy syntax highlighting, code completion, and integrated debugging capabilities, enabling you to write more efficient and error-free code.
**Master the Art of Debugging with Specialized Tools**
Uncover the root cause of errors effortlessly with a suite of specialized debugging tools. Utilize debuggers like WinDbg and Visual Studio's debugging tools to step through code, inspect variables, and identify potential issues, ensuring your applications run smoothly.
**Maximize Performance with Profiling and Optimization Tools**
Harness the power of performance profiling and optimization tools to pinpoint bottlenecks and enhance the performance of your applications. Analyze memory usage, CPU utilization, and other critical metrics to identify areas for improvement, ensuring your applications perform at their peak.
**Streamline Your Workflow with Automation Tools**
Automate repetitive tasks and streamline your development process with a range of automation tools. Leverage continuous integration and deployment tools like Jenkins and Azure DevOps to automate builds, tests, and deployments, freeing up your time for more creative endeavors.
**Empower Your Development with Open Source Frameworks and Libraries**
Enhance your applications with a vast array of open source frameworks and libraries. Integrate powerful frameworks like .NET Core and React into your projects, leveraging their robust features and extensive communities for support and collaboration.
**Embark on a Journey of Continuous Learning**
Windows Developer Power Tools is not merely a collection of tools but also a gateway to continuous learning and exploration. Discover new techniques, delve into the intricacies of Windows development, and stay abreast of the latest industry trends through our comprehensive documentation and active community forums.
**Ignite Your Development Career with Windows Developer Power Tools**
Elevate your Windows development skills to new heights with Windows Developer Power Tools. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your journey, this toolkit will empower you with the knowledge, tools, and resources you need to build exceptional Windows applications that stand out from the crowd.
Software developers need to work harder and harder to bring value to their development process in order to build high quality applications and remain competitive. Developers can accomplish this by improving their productivity, quickly solving problems, and writing better code.
A wealth of open source and free software tools are available for developers who want to improve the way they create, build, deploy, and use software. Tools, components, and frameworks exist to help developers at every point in the development process. Windows Developer Power Tools offers an encyclopedic guide to more than 170 of these free tools to help developers build top-notch Windows software from desktop applications to web services.
To help you choose the right tools for solving both common and uncommon problems you face each day, this book follows a unique task-oriented organization, laying out topics in the same order that you and your team are likely to encounter them as you work on a project. Each tool entry features a solid introduction -- a mini user's guide -- so you can get up to speed quickly and understand how to best use the tool in your environment. Inside, you'll find:
- A guide to more than 170 tools covering 24 unique aspects of Windows and .NET software development, with many descriptions contributed by the tools' authors
- Descriptions of freely available ASP.NET and Windows Forms controls, object relational mapping systems, testing frameworks, and build and continuous integration tools
- Articles on tools to help developers troubleshoot misbehaving applications
- Guides for utilities to boost productivity in the development environment as well as speeding up tasks in Windows itself
- "Quick pick" lists at the start of each chapter to help you find and choose the right tool for your task
- "At a Glance" and "In a Nutshell" summaries to help readers more quickly narrow their options
- References to an online book site to keep you up-to-date with new releases and features
- Forewords by Mike Gunderloy (Larkware) and Scott Hanselman (http://www.hanselman.com/tools), operators of the two most popular tools sites for Microsoft developers.
Also, plenty of links in each article point you to additional detail online if you wish to delve more deeply into features and functionality. This one-stop resource covers a wide range of open source and freeware tools to help you answer questions around planning, developing, testing, and rolling out great software. Best of all, they're free.
Author: Avery, James
Author: Holmes, Jim
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows development with more than 170 free and open source tools
Pages: 01312 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2014-06-12
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596527549
Category: Computers : Software Development & Engineering - General
