Utilties
- Resharper needs no introduction
- Expresso excellent regular expression designer/tester
- Notepad 2 also see here for instructions on replacing Notepad with Notepad 2
- Notepad ++ another editor
- PSPad editor for developers
- Programmers Notepad another editor
- SMSS Tools (Sql server addin) add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
- 7-Zip great archive utility
- Filemenu Tools customise the context menu in Explorer
- Ditto clipboard utility
- ClipAngel another clipboard utility
- AutoHotKey allows you to assign hotkeys to pretty much anything
- WinMerge / DiffMerge differencing and merging tool for Windows
- Linqpad like Notepad but for LINQ
- Paint.net Edit images/Create Icons
- Reflector / dotPeek look inside .net assemblies
- NCrunch an automated parallel continuous testing tool for Visual Studio .NET.
- Teamcity CI made easy
- Octopus Deploy Automated deployment for .NET
- Hangfire An easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring tasks inside ASP.NET applications.
- NimbleText NimbleText is a text manipulation and code generation tool available online or as a free download. It magnifies your ability to perform incredible feats of text and data wrangling.
- mockaroo Web app to generate mock data for testing.
- ShareX Easy screen capture
- FileZilla An FTP Client
For more dev utilities see Scott Hanselman's post.