- ADO.NET providers
(21 tools)

- AOP
(11 tools)
 Aspect-Oriented Programming
- ASP.NET
(59 tools)

- Builds
(30 tools)

- Caching
(10 tools)

- Charting
(36 tools)

- Code analysis - Standards verifiers
(39 tools)

- Code conversion - Language migration
(33 tools)

- Code coverage
(12 tools)

- Code generation
(39 tools)
 Everything related to code generation, except for data access. See the "Persistence - Data-tier" category for code generation related to data.
- Code protection - Obfuscation
(28 tools)
 Ways to hide your code from prying eyes and protect your intellectual property.
- Code versioning - Source control
(23 tools)

- Compilation
(23 tools)
 Includes IL manipulation.
- Compression
(13 tools)
 ZIP...
- Database management
(14 tools)
 Everything directly related to databases
- DBMS
(9 tools)
 DataBase Management Systems
- Decompilation
(13 tools)

- Deployment - Installation
(18 tools)

- Documentation - Code commenting
(32 tools)

- Frameworks
(27 tools)

- Geoprocessing
(6 tools)
 Geographic information processing, GIS (Geographic Information Systems), GPS (Global Positioning System)...
- Graphics
(23 tools)
 Image processing, OpenGL... See also "SVG - XAML".
- Grid computing
(7 tools)
 Distributed computing, OGSI (Open Grid Services Infrastructure), OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture)...
- IDEs - IDE add-ins
(92 tools)
 Includes Code editors
- Internet and communications
(69 tools)
 SMTP, FTP, MIME...
- Interoperability
(33 tools)

- Inversion of Control
(5 tools)

- Languages
(24 tools)

- Licensing
(8 tools)

- Localization
(13 tools)

- Mainframes - Legacy systems
(2 tools)

- Math - Logic - AI - Rules
(26 tools)
 Mathematics, Logic, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Constraint programming, Rule-based Engines
- Miscellaneous
(113 tools)

- Modeling - Architecture - MDA - UML
(25 tools)
 Includes Software design
MDA = Model Driven Architecture
- MVC
(6 tools)

- Object browsing - Assembly viewers
(20 tools)
 Reflection, ...
- Object-relational mapping
(66 tools)
 Object-relational mapping (O/R Mapping) products integrate object-oriented programming languages capabilities with relational databases.
- Page templating
(4 tools)

- Persistence - Data-tier
(77 tools)
 Includes data-related code generation
- Profiling - Debugging
(32 tools)
 Includes Monitoring, Performance testing, Optimization
- RAD - Dev automation
(41 tools)
 Includes Application development automation
- Refactoring
(10 tools)

- Regular expressions
(10 tools)

- Reporting
(65 tools)
 Reporting, printing and document creation.
Includes support for PDF files (Adobe Portable Document Format).
- Rich client UI
(8 tools)
 Components for Graphical User Interfaces (GUI), Windows Forms, smart clients...
- Scripting
(7 tools)

- Security
(19 tools)
 Security, Authentication...
- Sound - Audio
(7 tools)

- SVG - XAML - WPF - Silverlight
(20 tools)
 Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XAML, WPF, Silverlight
- Testing
(49 tools)

- Tracing - Logging - Monitoring
(31 tools)

- Web Services - Remoting - WCF
(23 tools)
 Web Services, .NET Remoting, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, Indigo)
- Workflow
(4 tools)

- XML
(17 tools)
 Includes everything XML, XSL, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, SAX...
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