The Holy Grail List of Developer Tools and More

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There is a good chance that you have seen this list, but if you haven't it is a must.  Scott Hanselman has produced an awesome list of tools with brief descriptions called "Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List".  The list is too much to take in a once, so to give you an overview, here are the categories he has:

  1. The Big Ten Life and Work-Changing Utilities
  2. A Developer's Life
  3. The Angle Bracket Tax (XML/HTML Stuff)
  4. Regular Expressions
  5. Stuff I Just Dig
  6. Low-Level Utilities
  7. Websites and Bookmarklets (that change the way you work)
  8. Smart People and their Pages for Utils They Wrote
  9. Browser Add-Ins
  10. Things Windows Forgot
  11. Ultimate Registry Tweaks
  12. Windows Explorer Integration (and other Itegraty things)
  13. Continuous Integration
  14. TabletPC Indispensables
  15. ASP.NET Must Haves
  16. Visual Studio.NET Add-Ins

Thanks Scott, this list is awesome!