ArgoUML-UML modeling tool

http://argouml.tigris.org/

ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages. See the feature list for more details.

CodeDesigner-open-source RAD programming environment

http://www.codedesigner.org/

CodeDesigner is free and open-source RAD tool suitable for easy creation of various diagrams describing applications’ structure and logic (class diagrams, state charts, …) and for generation of production-ready source code from them. It can be used as a free alternative to commercial tools like Enterprise Architect or IAR VisualState.

TextCrawler – string search and replace tool in files

http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/content/textcrawler

TextCrawler is a string search and replace tool that enables you to find and/or replace text and phrases across multiple files. The program supports simple keyword searches as well as advanced queries, using regular expressions. It also provides the option to extract the matching text to a separate window, from where you can copy it for other uses (e.g. to extract email address, URLs or similar patterns). A preview window allows you to view the found matches within their context, and you can choose to exclude certain files from the replace actions. Other features include an option to save RegEx strings in a custom library, subfolder scanning, automatic file backup and a built-in Regular Expression tester.

SVN-Monitor-monitor SVN Repository

http://www.svnmonitor.com/default.shtml

What is SVN-Monitor?
* Perform all your commonly-used svn-actions (update, commit, revert, diff …)
* Keep your source up-to-date with minimum conflicts and manual merges
* Browse and search the svn log from your computer while offline (disconnected from the svn repository)
* Be constantly aware of your local source modifications, without using any Visual Studio plugin
* Keep a local updated mirror of the repository, while not affecting your changes, without the need to commit
* Monitor the source for certain events
* Receive notifications of any kind (balloon popups, tray icons, email, sounds, …) when certain events occur

But I’m using TortoiseSVN!
Very good. You’ll continue using it.
SVN-Monitor acts as a front-end to TortoiseSVN for all your projects. Instead of using Windows Explorer for accessing TortoiseSVN, you can easily access it from your system-tray.

Netsparker-web application security scanner

http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/

We thought that if you need to investigate every single identified issue manually what’s the point of having an automated scanner? So we developed a new technology which can confirm vulnerabilities on demand  which allowed us to develop the first false positive free web application security scanner.  Powerful AJAX – JavaScript Support
Thanks to its comprehensive and powerful JavaScript engine it’s possible to simulate a real attacker successfully. This means it can successfully analyse websites that rely on AJAX and JavaScript.  Shows You the Real Impact
If “a picture is worth a thousand words”, then seeing the impact of a vulnerability is worth a thousand pages of report. Instead of only telling what the security issue in your application is, it’ll show you what an attacker might accomplish by exploiting it. Our scanner can exploit identified vulnerabilities with just a couple of clicks.

TortoiseHg-Mercurial shell extension

http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/

TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system. It also includes a Gnome/Nautilus extension and a CLI wrapper application so the TortoiseHg tools can be used on non-Windows platforms.

Easy Code – Visual assembler programming environment

http://www.easycode.cat/English/index.htm

Easy Code is the visual assembly programming environment made to build 32-bit Windows applications. The Easy Code interface, looking like Visual Basic, allows you to program a Windows assembler application done in an easy way as was never possible before. Download and test this application including the source code of a nice CD player, a complete and fast text editor in a dll file (to be able to program your own editor), a complete and excellent text editor ready to use, a file shredder, a MIDI player and many other applications. There are two available versions of Easy Code:

Sprintometer-agile management and tracking tool for SCRUM and XP

http://sprintometer.com/

Sprintometer is a simple but powerful agile tool for management and tracking of SCRUM and XP (Extreme Programming) projects. Sprintometer was originally created by people working on Agile projects for their own purposes and now is available as freeware product. We tried to do this tool simple, quick, reliable, user friendly and original. During development of this tool we in turn used many powerful agile ideas.

RJ TextEd – A Unicode source and text editor

http://www.rj-texted.se/index.htm

RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding. The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for HTML editing with integrated preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates and more. The program also include support for Topstyle Lite CSS editor, has a dual pane file commander, as well as a FTP client to upload your files. Below is a small list of features available. For a full list check out the features section.

Rad Software Regular Expression Designer

http://www.radsoftware.com.au/regexdesigner/

Rad Software Regular Expression Designer is a free download that helps programmers learn, develop and test Regular Expressions. It is an interactive Windows application that is designed to be simple and easy to use.
Features

* The Regex match results are listed in a tree with levels for Matches, Groups and Captures. Clicking on a Match, Group or Capture will highlight it in the Input text window
* Regex.Replace is supported and the results of the replace are listed in a separate window.
* The Language Element window is an embedded reference that gets you up to speed quickly. Click on an item to see a description in the pane below, double-click a language element to add it to your Regex
* Find text in any of the text windows with Ctrl+F
* Flexible interface with dockable windows
* Now supports very large values for the input text

Expresso-regular expression development tool

http://www.ultrapico.com/expresso.htm

All of the features of Expresso 2.1 are preserved, but with major improvements to the user interface, the Builder and the Analyzer.We appreciate your help and feedback. Our goal is to make Expresso the best .NET regular expression development tool on the planet.

Here are some of the features:
      Still free of charge!
      Build complex regular expressions by selecting components from a palette
      Test expressions against real or sample input data
      Display all matches in a tree structure, showing captured groups, and all captures within a group
      Build replacement strings and test the match and replace functionality
      Highlight matched text in the input data
      Test automatically for syntax errors
      Generate Visual Basic, C#, or C++ code
      Save and restore data in a project file
      Maintain and expand a library of frequently used regular expressions
      Dramatically enhanced Analyzer
            Analyzes and describes your regular expression in a tree structure
            Updated continuously in a separate thread
           Edit portions of your regular expression by selecting nodes in the Analyzer view
            Immediate feedback on syntax errors
           Highlight portions of your expression for partial matching
      Rich new Builder and editing features
            Easier to use Builder
            Support for .NET 2.0 features like character class subtraction and new Unicode classes
            Extensive editing capabilities via context menus in both text view and Analyzer view
            Builder can be docked or undocked from the Main Expresso window
            Full Undo/Redo capability
 

SVN-Monitor – svn-actions in system tray

http://www.svnmonitor.com/default.shtml

   * Perform all your commonly-used svn-actions (update, commit, revert, diff …)    * Keep your source up-to-date with minimum conflicts and manual merges
    * Browse and search the svn log from your computer while offline (disconnected from the svn repository)
    * Be constantly aware of your local source modifications, without using any Visual Studio plugin
    * Keep a local updated mirror of the repository, while not affecting your changes, without the need to commit
    * Monitor the source for certain events
    * Receive notifications of any kind (balloon popups, tray icons, email, sounds, …) when certain events occur

CodeRush Xpress for C#

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/dd218053.aspx

Developer Express and Microsoft are proud to announce a new version of CodeRush licensed exclusively for C# developers working in Visual Studio. The new product is called CodeRush Xpress, and it includes a fresh selection of hand-picked features taken from CodeRush and Refactor! Pro.

The AppDeploy Repackager

http://www.appdeploy.com/tools/repackager/index.asp

Downlload the AppDeploy RepackagerThe AppDeploy Repackager is a simple freeware snapshot tool for the creation of Windows Installer (MSI) setup packages. Unlike other tools that try to take on the whole drag and drop creation of MSI setups (development tools), the AppDeploy Repackager is simply a snapshot tool that results in a sharable project file which may be used to generate an MSI setup with the click of a button. If you need to edit an MSI, we recommend InstEd (or ORCA) — this tool is for repackaging legacy setups into MSI packages via a simple snapshot mechanism. Download it now!

PicPick Tools – All-in-one Design Tools

http://picpick.wiziple.net/features

PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user.

It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want.
It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely.

PicPick is portable ware, so you don't need any installation.
And, this is distributed as Freeware. So you may use this software on any number of computers for as long as you like.

Open ModelSpherUML modeling tool

http://www.modelsphere.org/

Open ModelSphere is a powerful data, process and UML modeling tool. Open ModelSphere covers conceptual and logical data modeling as well as physical design. It supports several notations, e.g. Entity-Relationship, DATARUN and Information Engineering. Conceptual models can be converted to relational models and vice versa.

Thanks to its reverse engineering capabilities, Open ModelSphere allows graphical visualization of your relational database´s architecture, thus making modifications easy. As a complete data modeling tool, it allows the generation of SQL scripts from your model as well. It can also generate SQL script enabling you to synchronize your existing database with the model that you modified. Open ModelSphere supports all the database management systems in a generic manner. For some of them, like Oracle, Informix and DB2, Grandite also offers plug-ins, specific to the various concepts.

Open ModelSphere also includes expert modules to validate the integrity of your architecture and the coherence of what you established (meeting the requirements of each DBMS). This validation expertise will help you save research time among the multitude of restrictions that exists in each management system.

Open ModelSphere also helps systems analysts to integrate the creation of data flow and business process diagrams and to elaborate an enterprise´s workflow and logistics. You can specify resources, transactions, communicational exchanges, cost calculated in time, money and effort, etc. Open ModelSphere is not restricted to business process modeling, but also allows you to set up the technical design at the application system level.

Open ModelSphere supports you to schematize the various processes´ details in a hierarchical manner, thus enabling you to decompose a process in subprocesses. This way, it is easy to keep an overview, while having access to a very detailed view of the processes. When setting the data flow diagram, it becomes easier to design a relational database that meets the company´s needs, hence avoiding loss of time and money.

Last, but not least – Open ModelSphere provides the functionality of a rich UML modeling tool / software. You can create Activity, Class, Collaboration, Component, Deployment, Package, Sequence, Statechart and Use Case diagrams. With respect to the coexistence of relational and object-oriented approaches, class models can be linked to data models. Moreover, class models can be generated from data models and vice versa.

SketchPath is a free XPath Editor

http://pgfearo.googlepages.com/

SketchPath is a free XPath Editor and XML analysis and testing tool supporting XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0. It provides an integrated graphical environment for viewing XML files, developing and testing XPath expressions against them and managing the expressions in file libraries.

Microsoft Web Application Installer

http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebApplicationInstaller.aspx

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. With just a few simple clicks, Web AI will check your machine for the necessary pre-requisites, download these applications from their source location in the community, walk you through basic configuration items and then install them on your computer.

T4 Editor Community edition for VS 2008

http://www.t4editor.net/downloads.html

This is a much simpler edition supporting basic coloring of T4 template parts only and not C# code blocks. Note this version is not officially supported by Clarius. For more details please look at the Features page.

Code Compare-compare merge source code

http://www.adamberent.com/CodeCompare.html

Code Compare is a comparison and synchronization tool that compares text, source code, XML files and directories, then highlights differences and merges content via its visual interface. Code Compare can make version comparing and code reviews a much easier process. 

LogExpert is a Windows tail program

http://www.log-expert.de/

LogExpert is a Windows tail program (a GUI replacement for the Unix tail command). LogExpert is free for non-commercial or commercial use.

Summary of features:

    * Tail program
    * MDI-Interface with Tabs
    * Search function (including RegEx)
    * Bookmarks
    * A very flexible filter view
    * Highlighting lines via search criteria
    * Columnizers: This means splitting log lines into columns for some well defined logfile formats
    * Unicode support

XStudio-graphical and modular in design test management application

http://www.xqual.com/

XQual Studio (XStudio) is a FREE 100% graphical and modular in design test management application that handles the complete life-cycle of your QA/testing projects from end to end: users, requirements, specifications, SUTs, tests, tesplans, test reports and test campaigns.
In addition, XStudio is a powerfull but simplistic-to-use bug-tracking database. Hence, you will be able to manage your defects as any bug-tracking database but also to "link" these defects to your test campaigns.

Using a MySQL database as principal storage, XStudio allows to schedule or run instantly fully automated or manual test campaigns.

Installing XAgent (a free program running in background) on several hosts will allow you to run the test campaigns on these PCs remotely.

Uniquely, XStudio provides a "simplistic-to-use" system that integrates all the tests you may already have -or you're planning to develop- whatever the language they are written into. Because XStudio can be used with any kind of tests (C/C++, Java, C#, Python, Perl, JUnit, CUnit, VBScript, JavaScript, any proprietary languages provided by dedicated tools such as AutoIt etc.), all types of industrie can take advantage of it.

SourceMonitor-monitor complexity in source code

http://www.campwoodsw.com/

The freeware program SourceMonitor lets you see inside your software source code to find out how much code you have and to identify the relative complexity of your modules. For example, you can use SourceMonitor to identify the code that is most likely to contain defects and thus warrants formal review. SourceMonitor, written in C++, runs through your code at high speed. SourceMonitor provides the following:

    * Collects metrics in a fast, single pass through source files.
    * Measures metrics for source code written in C++, C, C#, VB.NET, Java, Delphi, Visual Basic (VB6) or HTML.
    * Saves metrics in checkpoints for comparison during software development projects.
    * Displays and prints metrics in tables and charts.
    * Operates within a standard Windows GUI or inside your scripts using XML command files.
    * Exports metrics to XML or CSV files for further processing with other tools.

SuperOrca-replacement to the Orca MSI Editor

http://www.pantaray.com/msi_super_orca.html

SuperOrca from "Pantaray Research Ltd." is a direct replacement to the "Orca" MSI Editor from Microsoft. SuperOrca may be used to examine and modify an MSI database.

   SuperOrca highlights:

    * SuperOrca – is a free software.
      
    * SuperOrca – can be easily downloaded from the internet, no need to download and install the entire Microsoft SDK.
      
    * SuperOrca – will allow you to scan and manipulate all MSI database tables in an intuitive and user friendly manner.
      
    * SuperOrca – will not lock the MSI file you are working on, so you can test it with other tools or even install it while the file is still opened in SuperOrca.
      
    * SuperOrca – features a powerful "Compare" function that will compare two MSI files, and display any differences in a clear and meaningfull way.
      
    * SuperOrca – features a powerfull "Search All" function that will search a text literal across all database tables in one operation.
      
    * SuperOrca – version 1.X is distributed free of charge to the software development and IT comunity.

Axialis IconWorkshop Lite for VS 2008

http://www.axialis.com/download/iwlite.html

Axialis Software, in association with Microsoft Corporation, presents Axialis IconWorkshop Lite for Visual Studio 2008:

    * 100% Free for Visual Studio 2008 users;
    * Make icons for Windows up to 256×256 PNG-compressed icons for Windows Vista™ and include them in your software projects;
    * Use an advanced icon editor with various tools, filters and effects;
    * Work efficiently using a Plug-in for Visual Studio 2008;
    * Create icons from images or ready-to-use image objects;
    * Use a fully integrated workspace with librarian, built-in file explorer with thumbnail preview, image viewer and more…