Here are some tools I like to use on my SharePoint VM's
- VSeWSS 1.3 CTP and hopefully RTW soon
- SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard 1.1 - Copy lists and sites
- SharePoint Manager 2007 - View and get information out of your SharePoint site.
- FireFox 3 with the following plug-ins
- Firebug
- Firecookie
- FireFTP
- Web Developer
- CAML.NET IntelliSense - A completed schema refernce for CAML
- Microsoft SQL Database Publishing Wizard - Used for creating database scripts of a solution package.
- Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor - Comes with VSeWSS but you have to go and find it in the VSeWSS install directory.
- Microsoft Expression Web 3 SuperPreview for Internet Explorer - Compare your web site to IE6 for backward compatability
All of the tools above are FREE of charge and I recommend them allusing VSeWSS 1.3 March 2009 CTP and hopefully RTW soon.