Tools

Here are the tools that I use:

Development platform:

• Windows 7 (*)

Development tools:

• Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 (*)
• Castle Monorail – MVC framework
• ASP .NET MVC 3 – MVC framework
• Castle ActiveRecord – Data persistence layer built on top of NHibernate
• NHibernate – Data persistence framework

Javascript:

• jQuery

Source control:

• Visual SVN and TortoiseSVN (for client side)
• Subversion (for server side)

Development productivity:

• Resharper
• Beyond compare

Wireframes/mockups:

• Balsamiq Mockups

Continuous integration:

• Cruisecontrol.NET
• Nant

Debugging:

• Firebug (javascript)

I’m using Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as primary development targets. Additionally I’m testing the applications with Opera, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

* – These tools are provided by Microsoft as part of the Bizspark program for software startups.