Sitecore Rocks

Sitecore Rocks will make Sitecore developers happy!

Sitecore Rocks integrates directly with Microsoft Visual Studio and gives developers a fast, streamlined development experience by letting them use the tools that they are familiar with. This will increase productivity and lower the incidence of bugs.

Features

Sitecore Explorer: View the content tree for multiple websites and multiple databases. Delete, edit, or drag and drop multiple items simultaneously.
Item Editor: Edit the content of Sitecore items directly inside Microsoft Visual Studio - no need to open a web browser. The Item Editor supports multi-edit so that multiple items can be updated in a single operation.
Sitecore Query Analyzer: scripting CRUD.
Log Viewer: Keep track of what is happening on a Sitecore website with a running log.
Job Viewer: See which jobs are running in the background on a Sitecore website.
Layout Designer: Use drag and drop to setup presentation for multiple devices.
Template Designer: Quick and easy configuration of data templates.
Search: Fully integrated Sitecore search.
Media Library: Query-based media library. Upload new media using drag and drop.
Link Viewer: Quickly locate referrers and references.
Sitecore Project Management: Connect a Visual Studio project to a Sitecore website and create Sitecore items from aspx, ascx and xsl files with a few clicks. Track file operations (duplicate, copy, move, rename) and update the Sitecore items automatically.
Site Validation: Validate your site against more than 70 rules.