I have tried to summarise the list of development tools that you require in your day to day development. Please post your comments, if I have missed anything here.

App Pool Manager (http://www.harbar.net/apm/apm2.zip)
U2U CAML Query Builder (http://www.u2u.info/SharePoint/U2U%20Community%20Tools/U2U%20Caml%20Query%20Builder%202007%20v3.1.0.0%20(windows%20version).zip)
.NET Reflector (http://reflector.red-gate.com/download.aspx)
SharePoint Explorer for WSS 3.0 ( )
SharePoint Log Reader (http://www.blogaboutsharepoint.com/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=1)
BDC Meta Man Tool (http://www.lightningtools.com/pages/service/customerdownloads.aspx)
SharePoint Inspector 1.0.0.0 (http://spi.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1652#DownloadId=5854)
SharePoint Explorer for WSS 3.0 (http://download.mondosoft.com/Ontolica/SharePointExplorer_V1_5_1_For_WSS3.zip)
SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool (http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/4/D/B4D279A0-E159-40BF-A5E8-F49ABDBE95C7/SPDisposeCheck.msi)
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en)
Microsoft InfoPath 2007
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007
Microsoft Office 2007
WSP Builder for SharePoint (http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder)
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3e1dcccd-1cca-433a-bb4d-97b96bf7ab63&DisplayLang=en)
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7BF65B28-06E2-4E87-9BAD-086E32185E68&displaylang=en)
SharePoint Administration Toolkit v2.0
x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en
x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6EB-4FA3-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en
SmartPart (http://www.codeplex.com/smartpart)
SharePoint Installer (http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointinstaller)
SOAP calls to the SharePoint web services (http://www.soapui.org/)

Thanks to Yaroslav Pentsarskyy for indicating the last two URLs.

Thanks to Dan Jordan for suggesting the link for SOAP calls to SharePoint Web Service.

Category: MOSS 2007

Published: 29/04/2009 22:49

Comprehensive list of development tools for SharePoint Server 2007