List of Sharepoint 2010 Developer Tools

Below are some of the Tools/application which will be handy during development/debugging phase of the projects.

1) WSP builder
http://wspbuilder.codeplex.com/releases/view/30858
The WSP builder will create .wsp file extension for the sharepoint, event though Visual Studio provide OOB package builder still this tool will be handy.

2) Caml
http://www.u2u.be/res/Tools/files/CamlBuilderSetupv4.0.0.0.zip Using this tool we can easily build complex query to fetch data from SharePoint list.

3) TFS power tool
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f It's a plugin for Visual Studio and provides great flexibility to work with TFS.

4) Powershell
http://www.powergui.org/downloads.jspa Provides GUI for writing Powershell scripts to perform all sharepoint related administrative/developer task.

5) SPManger
http://spm.codeplex.com/releases/view/51438 The SharePoint Manager is UI based SharePoint object model explorer.

6) UlsViewer
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer This tool provides the sharepoint ULS log information where we can search or filtering the data based on category etc.

7) IE/Firefox developer tool bar
Out of the box tool where we can do style changes or debugging javascript code.

8) SPMetal
http://linqtosharepoint.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=SPMetal

9) CCleaner
http://download.cnet.com/CCleaner/3000-18512_4-10315544.html To clear cookies/browser history and this will be helpful when we use cookies related operation for storing data.

10) ILSpy
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpdevelop/files/ILSpy/2.0/ILSpy_Master_2.1.0.1603_RTW_Binaries.zip/download
This tool allows to decompile and browse the content of any .NET assembly

11) Fiddler
http://fiddler2.com/
Fiddler is a free web debugging tool which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet

12) CKS Visual Studio Extension
SPServer
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ee876627-962c-4c35-a4a6-a4d89bfb61dc
Foundation
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a346880f-2d29-47a6-84a2-f2d568dd6997/
This tool extends the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint project system with advanced templates

13) Sharepoint Installer
http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/downloads/get/100843

14) SPDisposecheck
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck
SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object Model helping measure against known Microsoft dispose best practices