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POWhat are your favorite small handy utility programs (tools) helping you programming ?
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copied!<p>And how they help you improve your programming ? Could they be integrated in IDE and if yes how ?</p> <p>Edit: Thanks to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/38971/altcognito">altCognito</a> There has been almost duplicate question before named: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/173328/whats-in-your-utility-toolkit">What's in Your Utility Tookit</a>**. "Allmost" since the listings there do not provide short explanations of what exactly each tool does Edit: If this question stays and you want to add a new tool please please according tool's popularity</p> <p>A simple tool listing</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep" rel="nofollow noreferrer">grep</a> for powerful text searching</li> <li><a href="http://www.joejoesoft.com/cms/showpage.php?cid=97" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ArsClip</a> - it remembers the last n amount of entries in the ClipBoard. The shortcut combination Ctrl + Shift + Z , 2 gives you the second last copied text ( or object ) from the Windows Clipboard. Never heard of it being somehow used within VS , neither have I missed such an integration ...</li> <li><a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Process Explorer</a> - for killing unwanted processes ( VS Team Services Help for example ) + vast grip of overall system info on Windows</li> <li><a href="http://www.getpaint.net/download.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Paint.NET</a> - use this often for writing or tweaking graphics (Visual Studio provides little in the way of decent graphics editing). Paint.NET is great for making transparent PNGs or GIFs - click the "Magic wand" tool to select the area you want to make transparent, and then hit Delete</li> </ul> <p>You could find a broader <a href="http://ysgitdiary.blogspot.com/2009/05/cool-programs-for-windows-most-of-which_24.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">list</a> on my blog ...</p>

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