HTTrack - allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

ASP.NET Web Matrix - is a community-supported, easy-to-use WYSIWYG application development tool for ASP.NET. It can be installed via a quick 1.3 MB download (about 5 minutes using a 56Kb modem). New features include: Access database support, J# support, design time enhancements including improved table editing and user-control rendering, many bug fixes, and much more! Best of all? It's absolutely free! go to the site and get the entire scoop on this one. AWESOME Tool at any price.

TEN MUST HAVE TOOLS FOR THE .NET DEVELOPER

You cannot expect to build a first-class application unless you use the best available tools. Besides well-known tools such as Visual Studio® .NET, there are a multitude of small, lesser-known tools available from the .NET community. In this article, msdn introduces you to some of the best free tools available today that target .NET development.

They will walk you through a quick tutorial of how to use each of them, some of which will save you a minute here and there, while others may completely change the way that you write code. You should learn enough about each to decide which tools are useful for your projects.

ACEFTP - One of the Web's most popular freeware FTP clients, this easy-to-use program offers advanced features and gives you the ability to open several FTP sites at once and execute multiple file transfers concurrently. AceFTP resumes broken transfers and lets you preview files with its integrated viewer. (For Windows).

AceFTP 3 Freeware is the easiest Free software available for transferring files over the Internet. Its cool, uncluttered drag 'n' drop interface designed in a Windows XP fashion, lets you transfer files quickly and efficiently, and navigate with ease between folders, and both website and computer. This robust software has high upload and download speeds, and enables you to perform multiple file transfers simultaneously. Simply put, it beats many paid for FTP clients hands down.

Arachnophilia - is a successor to WebThing, a popular HTML editor. This robust application can import and automatically convert RTF documents, tables, and outlines from any Windows 95-compliant application to HTML. It also supports up to six Web browsers, CGI, frames, Perl, C++, Java, and JavaScript development. Other features include a built-in, intelligent FTP client; automatic uploading of changed files; user-defined templates; user-customizable toolbars for quick access to frequently used tags; global search and replace; and a multiple-document interface with full drag-and-drop capabilities. In addition, Arachnophilia includes built-in tutorials on HTML development, JavaScript, frames, and the Internet.

Crimson Editor - is a professional source editor for Windows. This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size (so small that it can be copied in one floppy disk). While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java. Syntax Highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX. Also, it can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files. Other features include undo/redo, user tools, macros, spell checker and more.

HAPedit - is an acronym for Html Asp Php editor; a win32 text-mode editor useful for all developpers of dynamic web pages. Its main features are: syntax highlighting for html/php, html/asp, html, JavaScript, CSS and SQL; page preview in browser; project manager; php code "compilation"; edit html tags; code completion; preview images; SQL console; FTP Manager; Code Explorer and more.

Jext - was created to support Java programming language. But nowadays it can edit many other types of source codes. Among them you'll find C, C++, C#, ASP, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, TeX, XHTML, XSLT, Eiffel, JSP... Besides it provides advanced features to ease you work. Manage your projects with the bookmarks tool, categorize your opened files through workspaces, directly open zipped files, get a file straight from the Internet, mail your source code, executes system commands within the internal console, type faster thanks to HyperTyper and to the customizable code snippets library, add new features with plugins, discover the advanced editing capabilities, use the internal Python interpreter... Jext meets all your needs ! Developers will also appreciate the open architecture of Jext. Based on GPLed libraries, internal Python interpreter and many XML files, improving Jext is an easy job. You can even write your own plugins (in Python or Java).

ArgoUML is a powerful yet easy-to-use interactive, graphical software design environment that supports the design, development and documentation of object-oriented software applications.

If you are familiar with a family of software applications called Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools then you should find ArgoUML instantly familiar.

The users of ArgoUML are software designers & architects, software developers, business analysts, systems analysts and other professionals involved in the analysis, design and development of software applications. Main features:

Syn - is an Open Source Text and Programming Editor with Syntaxhighlight for many Languages, and some IDE Features, like starting a program (e.g. Compiler) and capture the output, support for Projects etc. Syn is written in Delphi (Version 5, Updatepack 1) for maximum performance, stability and filesize ;-), hence it doesn't require any bulky VC++/VB Runtime or MFC libraries!

Syn supports Active Scripting, this means you can extend the functionallity with writing a Script. If you have written such a Script, or an other file (Autocomplete file or whatever), and you think it could be useful for others, just send them to me or to the Users Mailinglist (syn-users[at]lists[dot]sourceforge[dot]net), and we will add them. Of course, we will give you proper credits. Many thanks to all of you!

Alambik - the open technology which places interactive multicontent media, or rich media, right within your grasp.

Developed for a wide range of applications, Alambik® unleashes your creativity thanks to an unparalleled simplicity and low cost of use.

Alambik technology is based on MCNL, a breakthrough language which is to interactive audiovisual publishing what HTML is to interactive press publishing.

Similar in use to HTML, MCNL combines a complete set of text-based programming instructions with text-based audiovisual commands (video, audio, 2D, 3D, vectorial, etc.). These two conceptual worlds, once distinct, are united synergistically under Alambik within a simple, uniform programming environment, for scripting real-time audiovisual creations.

Alambik is fully complementary to HTML. Its audiovisual, interactive multicontent rounds out HTML content, enhancing the overall end-user experience in much the same way that radio and television round out - without replacing - the traditional press.

First off, access is FREE, thanks to a freeware distribution of The Alambik Basic Core Production Pack. As Alambik runs on even the most basic PC gear, Producers or End-users with modest resources are by no means excluded.

Autorun.inf Editor - is a program that can be used to quickly and easily create the files that tell an autorun (also known as "autoplay") CD to automatically play upon insertion into a CD-ROM drive. This "autorun.inf" file is required when creating an autorun CD, since it is the file which signals the computer that the CD is autorun-enabled. When a CD is put into the drive, the operating system looks for the autorun.inf file. If the file exists, it reads the file and then knows how to "autoplay" the CD. There are a number of things you can do with an autorun.inf file.

Altova authentic® 2004 user interface, which closely resembles a word processor, allows business users to capture ideas and information directly into an XML document – without having to understand the underlying XML technology. This innovative approach to content editing unlocks corporate knowledge and increases overall efficiency.

authentic® 2004 is designed for use in organizations where people create business content or collect and use information on a daily basis. Users of authentic® 2004 are typically business users, such as reporters, analysts, lawyers, marketing professionals, order processing clerks, field representatives, etc.

authentic® 2004 is not only the most effective solution for realizing a standards-based, Web-enabled XML content management system, database, or XML repository, it’s also the most cost effective – because it’s free! Offering authentic® 2004 under a free license affords corporate IT departments – even those under tight budgets – the ability to implement XML content editing applications today and start realizing the benefits and cost-savings associated with re-using information assets.

authentic® 2004 is available as a desktop application or as a browser plug-in for Internet Explorer.

Shalom Help Maker (SHM) is an easy to use Windows help file editor that supports images, targets, popup windows, links to other pages, web pages and E-mail addresses, and has automatic updating of links when pages are rearranged/added/deleted, listing of unused bitmaps and popup pages, listing of links to the present page and a lot more. Unlike other help file creators Shalom Help Maker works like any ordinary editor and therefore has practically no learning curve. You don t have to know anything about help file making. Just start typing, insert pictures and write page headers. Hit F4 to see a preview of a page or F9 to compile the whole help file. Everything needed to make help files is included in this download. Nice interface.