The quick links to install a workstation for WPF & WCF dev.

• Download the quick installer
• Readme for .NET Framework 3.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 CTP Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF)
• Microsoft Windows SDK for .NET Framework 3.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows WorkFlow Foundation

Michael Swanson has put together as list of useful tools for the perfect WPF development box. Check it out ! 

As it says : There are different downloads depeding on which version of VS 2005 you are using.

As the name says.. Avalaible here

Microsoft has released (earlier this year) the downloadable version of the SSCLI. Download it and take a look at how some common framework types have been implemented by Microsoft coders.

Thomas from Topic has dedicated a site to his ORM framework DataGroove. The "alpha" version of the site is now online at this address www.data-groove.org

Many features are still missing (faqs, forums, etc) but the good news is that you can download the latest source code release for the DataGroove framework and get an eye on the sources.

For tutorial on how to use the framework, go to Theoreme Web site and look at the articles section.

Microsoft has released a set of plugins for Visual Studio 2005 :

Source Code Outliner : The Source Outliner tool is a Visual Studio extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them inside the editor.

Visual C++ Code Snippets:The Visual C++ Code Snippets tool lets you insert snippets in your code by using a pop-up menu that contains programming keywords. VB.NET and C# languages have this functionality in Visual Studio 2005.

Indexed Find : The Indexed Find tool is a Visual Studio extension that uses the Microsoft Indexing Service to provide improved Search capabilities to the integrated development environment (IDE). It sends the results of a search to the Output Window.

Super Diff Utility: The Super Diff Find tool is a Visual Studio extension that compares text files. It uses color coding and graphics to show the difference between the files in deleted text (red), changed text (blue), inserted text (green).
Event Toaster Utility: The Event Toaster tool is a Visual Studio extension that notifies users about specific events within the Visual Studio IDE.

NDoc is used to generate HTML and CHM documentation from XML comments written in C# code.

Stef van Hooijdonk wrote a great NDoc addin that creates NDoc-compatible Xml files based on the structure of your Sql Server databases. As mentioned in his blog :

"The Database Describer will write out a cs source file, a compiled Assembly and a doc xml with all the comments based on the schema of your Sql Server database. Your sql database remarks ( MS_Description ) will be part of the output.

Since there is an assembly, you can even include links to the tables, views and sprocs from your own code comments, simply by referencing the assembly from your project and including a seealso in your summary : "

/// <summary>///
<seealso cref = "Databases.Sql.ControleServices.Tables.Findings" >Findings</seealso>
/// </summary>

As a picture is worth a thousand words ...

IMHO, this is another great tool to include in your toolbox .