Setting up my development machine

06/18/2018

Gérald Barré

Others

Here's the configuration of my developer machine. I'm a .NET and web developer, so only the software relevant to these technologies are part of the list. I also add a few tools I use everyday, but are not directly related to dev. I'm sure I forgot some of the tools I used regularly. If you think I should add something (software/extension/configuration/services), feel free to comment.

Web browsers

Opera
- Install Chrome Extensions: Allows to install Google Chrome extensions in Opera
- uBlock origin: Blocks most of the crap on the internet (Use the settings to add more filters)
- JSON lite: Format JSON documents
- Windows Defender Browser Protection: Use Microsoft services to detect dangerous pages
- Microsoft open sources Accessibility Insights: Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers
- 1Password
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
Firefox

Development

Visual Studio 2019
- GitHub extension for Visual Studio: Access GitHub functionalities directly from Visual Studio
- Meziantou.Analyzer: Various analyzers
- ErrorProne.NET.Structs: Analyzer about readonly structures
- AddNewFile: Quickly create new empty file
- EditorConfig Language Service: Provides a full language service for .editorconfig file
- Project System Tools: Generate binlog when building a solution and explore the log
- Project File Tools: Provides Intellisense and other tooling for XML based project files such as .csproj and .vbproj files
- Clear MEF Component Cache
- Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures
- Cascadia Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures
- Microsoft Child Process Debugging Power Tool
Visual Studio Code
- Insert GUID: Generate a guid in the code
- Markdown Paste: Paste images in a markdown document
- Visual Studio Team Services: VSTS integration
- XML Tools: Tools to format XML documents, and quick search
- GitLens — Git supercharged: Add lens with data from git
- Git Graph
- Version Lens: Add lens to easily update packages (npm, NuGet, and others)
- Settings Sync: Store/Restore your VS Code settings in a Gist
- Prettier - Code formatter: Format JS, TS and CSS code
- Spell Right: Multilingual, Offline and Lightweight Spellchecker for Visual Studio Code
- ILSpy .NET Decompiler: Decompile MSIL assemblies - support for full framework, .NET Core and .NET Standard
- Import Cost: Display inline in the editor the size of the imported package
- :emojisense:: Add suggestions and autocomplete for emoji to VS Code
- Azure Pipelines for VS Code: Syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, and more for Azure Pipelines
- TinyPNG
.NET Core SDK
dotCover: .NET Unit Test Runner and Code Coverage Tool by JetBrains
dotTrace: .NET Performance Profiler by JetBrains
dotMemory: .NET Memory Profiler by JetBrains
dotPeek: .NET Decompiler from jetBrains
dnSpy: Debugger and .NET assembly editor
de4dot: .NET deobfuscator and unpacker
Node.js
Fiddler: HTTP Proxy to debug web applications
TraceSpy: ETW trace viewer
GitKraken: git GUI
Sysinternals Suite: Lots of useful tools to debug applications (procexp, procmon, portmon)
MSBuild Binary and Structured Log Viewer: Debug your builds and discover msbuild functionalities
WinDbg
Microsoft Message Analyzer
Azure CLI
- az extension add --name azure-devops
- az devops login