My site is hosted on
WinHost,
providing a Windows platform and other requirements of what I intend to work with.
I'm working in .NET 3.5 on Windows Vista, using Visual Studio 2008.
Given what I've seen of the beta's and work done by others,
I fully intend to upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 in the near future.
My host provides access to SQL Server 2008 for the back end. It's a
very limited access, but I'm not trying to host enterprise solutions here.
I try to follow TDD (Test Driven Development) practices, so I do my
testing with
NUnit and the NUnit framework.
Since I really don't plan on doing high-end graphics for this site, most of the work
will be done in
Paint.NET.
It's no Photoshop, by any means, but it does a lot of simple things well.
Well, not everything can be done in Paint.NET. :P
The ability to roll back to a previous commit when I screw something
up is immeasurably important to me. Not that I ever screw anything up...
For this I use
Tortoise SVN
for integration with Windows Explorer, and
AnkhSVN
to integrate into Visual Studio.
Yes, that external image icon
(
) is public domain.
I'll probably use others as well to save time drawing pictures.
As I begin working with Silverlight I will be using Expression Blend.
There are probably other tools I'll work with later on, and I will
try to list them here.