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We use a number of different tools at ClearCanvas.  Below are the ones we use regularly and highly recommend:

 

Tool

Description

Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft's development environment

Subversion (SVN)

A great open source source code control system.  Considered the successor to CVS.

Tortoise SVN

A very popular and easy to use, open source SVN client.

Visual SVN

A very nice Visual Studio add-in that integrates Tortoise SVN functionality right into the Visual Studio IDE.

Trac

An open source, no-fuss defect tracking system.

Resharper

An invaluable Visual Studio add-in that provides improved intellisense, powerful refactoring, code analysis, unit testing etc.

Axialis Icon Workshop

A really polished icon editor.  All our toolbar icons were created using this.

Paint.NET

A powerful, open source, Photoshop-like tool.  When a canned icon wasn't available, we used this to draw our own.

Sandcastle Help File Builder

An open source tool that we use to build our Framework API reference.  It is built on top of Sandcastle, Microsoft's new documentation generation engine.

Help & Manual

A very powerful help authoring tool that this help file was written in.

NSIS

An open source, installer creation tool.  We use this to create the installers for our distributables.

VMWare Workstation

Virtualization software. We use this extensively to create consistent, reproducible test environments.

AP Test

A very powerful and flexible test case management system.