2. Those are the two least problems - it has loads of bugs and is very crash prone (plus, try entering a : anywhere without having to muck about with parentheses as a workaround). But it's still the best out there for creating and debugging regexes - VS doesn't run your regexes, nor does it have syntax highlighting.

3. I do quite a bit of XML, and Stylus Studio has proved indispensable. For editing XML Schemas and particularly XSLTs it's light-years above what you can do with just VS or Notepad2.

4. Knowing basic UML has IMO a lot of advantages when discussing code and design with colleagues, or when creating documentation -- it's a lot easier to explain your class structure when there's acceptance of a fundamental way to draw it on a whiteboard. It might seem trivial, but it's dead useful for big projects. I naturally prefer to write code, but it's no replacement.

5. wget is da b0mb :-)

6. There's nothing like XML documentation to save you the bother of having to look at your function definitions every now and then. Sure, right now it's obvious that a call to ControllerProvider.Navigate takes a certain enum as Direction and a float between [0..1] as Weight, but it's not going to be that obvious when you update the application in five months. Plus, if you have to document an API there's no better way of doing things - it's easy to maintain the documentation, you hardly ever forget to update it and you don't have to deal with the tedious bits of documentation templates.

8. My TC window is consistently hiding behind some other windows (say, Thunderbird or Visual Studio). Whenever I need to do any work with the file system I just switch to it. That said, whenever I do ANYTHING with Windows Explorer I feel like beating the shit out of whichever Microsoft UI designer is responsible for the original file manager in Windows 3 for not learning the lesson and imitating Norton Commander or even XTree Gold - or buying one of the two outright.

12. I think there's a plugin that does that, no? I basically prefer to keep the low-level stuff (disassembly, decompilation) outside the scope of my day-to-day development environment.

13. Ewwww. It's huge, it's slow and it has the worst EULA known to man. No way in hell, no way.