Useful Tools for SharePoint

The following are the tools which are very frequently used in SharePoint Projects.

SharePoint Designer

SharePoint Designer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web design application from Microsoft exclusively for SharePoint sites.

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42&displaylang=en

U2U CAML Builder

A tool for creating and executing CAML queries

Download link: http://www.u2u.be/res/Tools/CamlQueryBuilder.aspx

SP Dispose Check

A tool for writing safe code using SharePoint Object Model to prevent memory leaks

Download link: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck

WSPBuilder

A tool for creating SharePoint Solution Package (WSP) WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder

STSDEV

A tool for creating easy deployable solution

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev

SharePoint Manager 2007

It a SharePoint object model explorer tool, enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property.

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/spm

WSS/MOSS Log file reader

A tool to View, search and filter SharePoint ULS log files directly from within Central Administration.

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/wssmosslogfilereader

SharePoint Logging Spy

A tool to allow real time diagnostics of multiple servers in a SharePoint

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointloggingspy

SharePoint Test Data Population Tool

A tool for capacity planning and performance testing that populates data for testing SharePoint deployments

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop

AD Explorer

It is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor which allows manipulation of AD objects

Download link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx

IE Developer Toolbar

A tool that aims to aid in design and debugging of web pages

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E59C3964-672D-4511-BB3E-2D5E1DB91038&displaylang=en

Note: “Internet Explorer 8” includes the features of IE Developer Toolbar built in, instead of a separate product; known as Developer Tools rather than Developer Toolbar.

Reflector

A tool for disassemble Assemblies

Download link: http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector

GhostDoc

A tool that helps developers writing XML documentation comments

Download link: http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc

Resource Refactoring

A tool to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/ResourceRefactoring

Fiddler

It is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet.

Download link: http://www.fiddlertool.com/