List of free tools

Tools

• Windows Developer Preview http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516. Freeware.
• Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool or http://wudt.codeplex.com. GNU GPL.
• Git Extensions http://gitextensions.sourceforge.net/. GPL 3.
• Nemiver http://projects.gnome.org/nemiver/. Open Source. GPL.
  
• TortoiseHg http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/. Open Source. GPL 2.
  
• Visual Studio 2010 Express http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/. Freeware.
  
  • Visual C# 2010 Express
  • Visual C++ 2010 Express
  • Visual Web 2010 Express, even if you do not develop ASP.NET application, the IDE editor is really good for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML.
  • Windows Phone Developer Tools
• Visual Studio 2010 Downloads. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb984878. Freeware.
  
  • Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) for F#.
  • Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated).
• Visual Studio 2008 Shell (Isolated) with SP1 as an IDE for Nemerle, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=021b3bee-b2ad-42a8-854a-c5eaef69e927&displaylang=en. Freeware.
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express. http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/.
  
• Windows SDK adds x64 and Itanium to Visual C++ 2010 Express. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924. Freeware.
  
• Windows PowerShell 2.0 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968930. Freeware.
• SP1 for Visual Studio 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23691. Freeware.
• NUnit http://www.nunit.org/. Open Source. NUnit license.
• Boost http://www.boost.org/. Open Source. Boost licence.
• Far Manager http://www.farmanager.com/. Open Source. Revised BSD license.
• 7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/. Open Source. GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions.
• Sandcastle Help File Builder http://shfb.codeplex.com/. Open Source. Ms-PL.
• Mono http://www.mono-project.com/. Open Source. GPL, LGPL, MIT X11, Microsoft Permissive License.
• MonoDevelop http://monodevelop.com/. Open Source. LGPLv2 and MIT X11.
• yEd http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html. Freeware.
• WiX http://wix.codeplex.com/. Open Source. Common Public License Version 1.0.
• SharpDevelop http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx. Open Source. LGPL.
• ILSpy http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/ilspy.ashx. Open Source.
• Doxygen http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/. Open Source. GPL.

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Browsers

• Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/. Open Source. Mozilla Public License.
• Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome. Freeware.
• Safari http://www.apple.com/safari/. Freeware.
• Opera http://www.opera.com. Freeware.
• Internet Explorer. Freeware.
  • Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677&displaylang=en. Freeware.
  • IETester http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage. Freeware.

Others

• VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/
• openSUSE http://software.opensuse.org/. Open Source. GPLv2. Binaries for Personal Use.
• Free Download Manager http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/. Open Source. GPL.
• OpenProj http://openproj.org/openproj. Freeware. CPAL.
• LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/. Open Source. GNU Lesser General Public License.
• Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/. Open Source. GNU Lesser General Public License.
• Thunderbird http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird.. Open Source. MPL, GPL, LGPL,
• Skype http://www.skype.com/. Freeware.
• KeePass http://keepass.info/. Open Source. GPL.
• TortoiseSVN http://tortoisesvn.net/. Open Source. GPL.
• VisualSVN Server http://www.visualsvn.com/server/. Freeware.
• ImgBurn http://www.imgburn.com/. Freeware.
• Adobe Reader http://get.adobe.com/reader/. Freeware.
• ZoneAlarm Free Firewall http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/trialpay-za-signup.htm. Freeware.
• CCCP http://www.cccp-project.net/. Freeware.
• µTorrent http://www.utorrent.com/. Freeware.
• WinCDEmu http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org. Open Source. LGPL.
• Security Essentials http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/. Freeware.
• AVG Free http://free.avg.com/. Freeware.
• Blender http://blender.org/. Open Source. GNU GPL.