For the last few months my colleague Charlotte and I have been working on a Windows Phone 7 app we hope to release soon. Attendants of our “Performance tuning and analysis“ during the Microsoft TechDays this week had a brief overview of this app.
In this post, I wanted to share with you all the tools we’re using to build this app.Most of them are free, so they might interest you…
Productivity / Code
- Visual Studio 2010 and Blend 4
- Productivity Power Tools (free)
- Debugger Canvas (free)
- ReSharper 6.1 (C# only $150)
- C# Async CTP (free)
Libraries
- Silverlight for Windows Phone toolkit (free)
- MVVM Light (free)
- Moq (easy unit-testing, free)
- Windows Live SDK (free)
- Flurry Analytics (tracking / business intelligence, free)
- SharpZipLib (zip management, free)
- JSon.Net (free)
- Reactive Extensions or Rx (free)
- Telerik Controls ($100)
Source Control
- Assembla SVN hosting (private SVN repository, free)
- Tortoise SVN (SVN client, free)
Project Management
- AgileZen (free for managing 1 single project)
Cloud computing
- Windows Azure (included in our MSDN Ultimate subscription)
- SkyDrive (free)
Web site
- 1and1 hosting (about $5/month)
- WP7 App Site template (free)
I personally love all those tools and libraries ! What do YOU use for your Windows Phone 7 development ?
Hmm… Resharper (C# only) personal license cost $149
andrexx,
You are right. I updated the price 🙂
Mercurial Source control & VS Plugin (+TortoiseHG)
imo Better than SVN. (and also free)
Jax,
Thanks for the feedback! I’m not familiar with Mercurial but I should take a look at it…