What's the must have tools/software when developing on Windows?

Depends on what you are developing....

I was thinking more in general and not dependent on anything specific. @bkwilliams

Ill just list whatever comes to my mind that can be useful (aka my own "stack")

Visual studio with everything installed
Chrome
Visual studio code (or whatever editor you like, might aswell download all 3 others [sublime, notepad++, atom])
Android studio
Nodejs (with http-server)
Docker
Virtual box or vmware
Git
Gitkraken (if youre a noob like me)
Spotify (you need that perfect mixtape)
Java (JDK)
Intellij (ditch eclipse unless youre starting out)
Deluge (shh..)
Adblock with anti adblock blocker
Phpstorn
Everything that is adobe
Hackintosh ->
Xcode
Sketch
Cocoapods
Homebrew
Ruby (and everything else with it)
Python and pycharm (and all the other cool scientific programs that comes from it)
Tensorflow (or whatever)
Any cpp ide
Unity
Go?

Thats all i can think off

Why all of these? Well i just like having them all... idk (yeah its overkill ik)

Have fun with these

Sublime. It's my go to editor, it's not the best at any one language but it does syntax highlighting for C++, Java, Python, html, JS etc.

Windex and a squeegee ...

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VSCode (tons on extensions) or Visual Studio Community
LinqPad if you just want to mess around

Virtualbox!
Too easy :(

@willol that's what I came here to say. Virtualbox with Linux installed!

PhpStorm
PyCharm
Idea
Android Studio
Visual Studio
MSSQL Management Studio
VMWare Workstation
WinSCP
Putty
ColorPic
Notepad++
Adobe Photoshop
PgAdmin
Chrome
GitLab
YouTrack
Skype

Chrome
Firefox
Opera
Vivaldi
Edge
IE

@MaxDeepfield a bit overkill don't you think? Half those ides do the same thing with plugins.

@Revenger I always use Spotify in chrome with Adblock. No ads forever! With the app there will be ads.

A hard drive with Linux installed 😝

Visual Studio Code and virtualization (VirtualBox, Vagrant or Docker, etc.)

Visual assist for visual Studio is a must have when working on large c++ Projekts because intellisense is crap.

Do not forget IIS, if you're web developer. And MariaDB comes handy too.

Thank you! @PoweredByCoffee

Why virtual box over hyper v or VMware? @willol

@anthonkendel I would suggest to start width virtual box because ist open source, my second choice would be hyper v if you have a hyper v enabled Windows version.

I'm currently using hyper v as that's recommended by docker. And then newer Windows have Ubuntu subsystem so it doesn't feel necessary running a Vm with Linux. (Especially on a laptop) @crafter

Must have tool for Windows... Uhm, maybe Linux?

A new OS

@anthonkendel it was just for the joke :) I use none of them anyway !

cmd

And here they come the linux nazis :)

@zeprod fyi, ezblock allows you to use the standalone Spotify client. It's nice.

A vm running Linux.

One more funny linux nazi joke :)

@Ashkin thank you! Didn't know that :)

@Ashkin @zeprod but it doesnt FULLY block the ad, it only silents, so best thing to do is chage the bloody hosts file to the one that is found on github, this will do

(Google "hosts file github")

Plus the webapp is usually louder, so i would say stick to that

@Revenger I haven't had any ads at all since using it. It does break the layout a bit, though.

@anthonkendel the Ubuntu sub system is utter crap in win10...

@SHA-256 the version in Anniversary Update is, the new version coming out in Creator Update is much better

@bkwilliams maybe....a system that fails on apt update is not a good start...I prefer Linux through a VM though