Tools & Utilities
Learn about these downloadable utilities and related software components that can be used to enhance your development experience or your applications.
| CLR Profiler for the .NET Framework 2.0
Analyze and improve the behavior of your managed applications with the CLR Profiler. This version of the CLR Profiler was built especially for the .NET Framework 2.0. |
| Fx Cop
Get the specifics of developing reusable libraries that integrate well with the common language runtime and the vision of Microsoft .NET. The Microsoft .NET Framework team shares the experience it gained in the process of developing these libraries, recommends good practices to follow, warns about potential pitfalls to avoid, and helps you successfully develop your own reusable libraries. |
| Performance Console (PerfConsole) 1.0
PerfConsole is a simple performance investigation tool which tries to adopt a debugger-like experience to drilling into Visual Studio Performance Profilergenerated data. |
| .NET Productivity Suite
DevForce Express is a full featured framework that accelerates building complex, data intensive, .NET applications. Key features include VS2005 integration, RAD tools, advanced databinding, caching, security, and more. |
| ILMerge
ILMerge is a utility for merging multiple .NET assemblies into a single .NET assembly. It works on executables and dlls alike. It comes with several options for controlling the processing and format of the output, see the accompanying documentation for details. |
| LibCheck
LibCheck allows you to compare two versions of an assembly, and determine the differences. The tool reports the differences as a combination of 'removed' and 'added' APIs. The tool is limited to looking only at APIs (i.e, it can't check for behavioral changes), and only compares public differences, or changes which are deemed to be 'breaking'. The tool can be used to quickly determine what has changed between one version of your assembly and another, and can help ensure that you won't introduce any breaking changes to clients of your assembly. Instructions and intended use of the tool are described in the 'libcheck tool specification' document with the zip file. |
| CLR Profiler
The CLR Profiler is a tool that you can use to analyze and improve the behavior of your managed applications. |