I’m sitting at the morning keynote at CodeMash being given by Scott Guthrie from Microsoft.  He’s talking about LINQ  and the evolution of data access code.  I’ll post more about the keynote in a bit.

Before I forget I wanted to blog about my favorite development tools. 

Hi, my name is Mike and I am a ViM addict.  In order to maintain my sanity while working in Visual Studio, I use viEmu.  This is a great Visual Studio addon that let’s me use Vi commands from within the VS editor.  Wanna move the cursor around the screen and not take your fingers off the home row?  try j,k,l,m.  Wanna quickly and easily search your code?  Simply type / and then enter.  To navigate between the results, hit n.  Highlight a block
of code?  Esc, v, move the cursor to select.  Awesome addon that was definitely worth the price.

Other tools that are high on my list:
CodeSmith – excellent code generation tool.
NUnit – I tried mbUnit, but keep coming back to NUnit.
TestDriven.NET – Let’s you easily run your tests from within VS.NET.
Reflector – Look inside compiled assemblies.