A new tool called Sitecore Rocks has been released in a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version - a early sneak peek. The tool, although a little rough around the edges, really shows a bright new future for Sitecore development, a future where we as developers do not need to muck about with browsers interfaces, only to connect our code, .NET pages and user controls into Sitecore. Now we can stay within in the tool we use and like, Visual Studio.
The permission viewer application is a diagnostic tool for viewing permissions in a Telligent Evolution platform community. It allows you to view permissions in a tabular form which can make diagnosing permission based issues easier.
Visual Subst is a small tool that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives. It uses the same API similar to the console 'subst' utility, but makes it easier to create and remove virtual drives in a GUI way.
The Sitecore Social Connected module contains several independent tools:
Social Connector allows website visitors to log in your website using credentials from their social network accounts. Your website receives more information about the visitor from the social network profile. You can use it to personalize the website.
Social Publishing allows posting automatic updates to the social networks along with publishing Sitecore items.
Putting Like and Tweet buttons on the webpage. You can put the buttons as Sitecore controls and track users' activity using Sitecore analytics.
" Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Speed Tracer is available as a Chrome extension and works on all platforms where extensions are currently supported (Windows and Linux). "
