Hi folks,

I'm in charge of hiring and setting up a tiny team (2-3) of programmers to do .NET web development and I need to go shopping for equipment & software. Maybe you can help!

These staff will be work for 4-6 months on an interactive web portal that will talk to an MS SQL Server back-end database. Complexity-wise, on a scale of 1 to 10, this project is probably about a 5 or 6 (not rocket science, but still tricky).

Anyways, I'm working on a shopping list! Maybe you can offer some guidance based on your experiences.

I'm assuming I'll need to get each of the programmers...

1) A fast PC with lots of RAM

2) Visual Studio 2008

3) Their choice of a programmer's text editor (e.g., UltraEdit, SlickEdit, etc)

4) Maybe some pre-fab .NET components or code generators? e.g., CodeSmith, .netTiers?

But what else... if you have any suggestions for other items, I would GREATLY appreciate any input you can provide!

I was an old classic-ASP developer a few years back, but I have not yet made the transition to .NET, so my knowledge is VERY limited. What sorts of tools would make YOU happy and productive if you were on my team?

THANKS EVERYBODY! I APPRECIATE THE HELP!

- Walter