• Visual Paradigm UML editor - The community edition of this excellent UML editor is available for free.
• Other Free Microsoft Development tools - including free C#, VB, SQL development environments. Team Studio it ain't but then I still think you are getting more than you pay for.
• Microsoft E Learning - OK, not a tool, but may well help. Lots of free labs and tools on this as well as
• Microsoft Nuggets - 10 minute tutorials from Microsoft.
• Visual Web Developer - Build ASP.NET web sites without paying huge amounts for Visual Studio.
• #develop - Develop C# controls for free
• Fx Cop - Developed by the Microsoft guys, this is a real must have for checking that your code follows accepted development best practices and guidelines.
• NUnit - unit testing framework for use with .NET code
• NCover - for testing that you have tested all the nooks and crannies of your code.
• NDoc Code Documenter - "generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler" - doesn't work with .Net 2.0 framework - however....
• Sandcastle .Net 2.0 code documenter does.
• Sandcastle Help File Builder - would you like a GUI for that sir?
• Microsoft Expression Web - Get it while it's on free demo. xhtml compliant code writer from Microsoft :0

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