Tools

Free and Open Source Tools.

Function	Tools
VB.NET IDE	Visual Basic Express Edition SharpDevelop
Reports for VB.NET applications	SQL Server Express with Advanced Services (to design report) + Report Viewer redistributable/control (to display report in .NET application)
Report designer and runtime for VB6 applications	Report Manager Designer and ActiveX (http://reportman.sourceforge.net/)
Project management	ProjectLibre
Dictionary [offline]	Wordweb
Office automation	LibreOffice
Setup authoring	NSIS with HM NIS Edit for a GUI Advanced installer free edition Excelsior Installer WiX
.NET Obfuscator	Eazfuscator.NET
SQLite GUI	SQLiteStudio Sqliteman SQLite2009 Pro Enterprise Manager
CD Writing	CDBurnerXP
Download manager/accelerator	DownThemAll firefox add-on
Firewall	Comodo Internet Security
Spyware remover	Spybot search & destroy
Web server	Apache HTTP server
Database	PostgreSQL SQL Server Express edition MySQL CUBRID (Web application needs) HSQLDB (Embedded + Java needs) SQLite (Embedded needs)
MySQL GUI	HeidiSQL Toad for MySQL Freeware MySQL Workbench Adminer PhpMyAdmin
Disk space viewer	WizTree TreeSize Free
Image resizing	Picture Resize Genius Wiseval Photophant
Telnet client	PuTTY
Music player	Winamp free edition
Text editor	Notepad++
Disk Encryption [On-The-Fly Encryption]	FreeOTFE FreeOTFE Explorer TrueCrypt
Virtualization	VirtualBox
CD Drive emulator	VirtualCloneDrive
Startup programs manager	Autoruns
Convert/Save documents or web pages as PDF	PDF Creator
Asymmetric encryption	GPG Gpg4win
File comparison	Winmerge
File compression	7-zip
FTP Client	Filezilla
FTP Server	Filezilla server
Screen capture	Screenhunter free
Perl interpreter	ActivePerl
MD5/SHA-1 hash verifier	HashTab DigestIT 2004
Email server	hMailServer
Password storage	KeePass Password Safe
Website copier	WinHTTrack
Software licencing	ActiveLock (http://www.activelocksoftware.com/)
Regex editor	Rad regex designer (http://www.radsoftware.com.au/regexdesigner/)
Password generator	PasswordGen (http://www.sdean12.org/PasswordGen.htm) PC tools password utilities (http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/) GRC ultra high security password generator (https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm) Xyzzy
Email client	Thunderbird Windows live mail
XML Editor	foxe - FirstObject Xml Editor (http://www.firstobject.com/dn_editor.htm) Notepad++
Universal database GUI. Use to manage any DMBS.	Squirrel SQL client
Enterprise reporting [report deployment, report distribution, web-based reporting, business intelligence]	ART (http://art.sourceforge.net) Pentaho BI suite Community Edition Jaspersoft BI suite Community Edition
Bug tracking	MantisBT
Convert music/video files to different formats	VLC media player
Java decompiler	JD-GUI
ETL	Pentaho Data Integration [Kettle]
OLAP cube viewer and MDX generator	Rex (http://sourceforge.net/projects/whex)
Web based IMAP client [webmail, webmail client]	SquirrelMail Roundcube AtMail open Horde IMP
LDAP server	Apache Directory Server - ApacheDS
LDAP browser [ldap client]	Apache Directory Studio
Difference in database schemas	SQL Power Architect Community Edition (http://www.sqlpower.ca/page/products OR http://code.google.com/p/power-architect/) MySQLDiff (http://www.mysqldiff.org/)
Data generator	Spawner (http://sourceforge.net/projects/spawner/) Dategenerator (http://www.generatedata.com)
Data warehousing database	Infinidb Community Edition
Sms library	Gsmcomm SMSLib
.NET library to read or write excel files without having MS office installed	NPOI (http://npoi.codeplex.com/)
Generate .NET program documentation from xml comments	ImmDoc.Net (http://immdocnet.codeplex.com/)
Profiler for SQL Server Express editions	AnjLab sql profiler (http://sites.google.com/site/sqlprofiler/)
Review resource usage by processes	Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx)
Manage ssl certificates available to java	Portecle
Reminder to take breaks	Workrave FadeTop
Document Management System	OpenKM
Merge text files	TXTcollector (http://bluefive.pair.com/txtcollector.htm)
Software testing management	TestLink
Determine who is using which port	TCPView
Manage frequent ip address changes	NetSetMan
Unlock files that can’t be deleted because they are locked by some process	Unlocker