While I have heard of all of the tools from this article before, it never hurts to make sure that you know about (and use) as many tools as you can. It never hurts to be too productive.

Of the tools listed in the article, CodeSmith, SnippetCompiler, and Reflector are my favorites. Since I’ve been doing quite a bit of .NET development at work as of late, I can’t think of a day that went by without using either the SnippetCompiler or Reflector. Both are invaluable tools that any .NET developer really should have in their toolbox. If you don’t, you’re just hurting yourself.

As for CodeSmith, I haven’t used it much yet, but I think that’s only because I haven’t properly integrated it into my workflow. For more on it, see my previous post.