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The following folks were kind enough to reply to an email I sent asking for their list of indespensible tools. Here is what I got:

Chris Bowen, A Northeast Regional Developer Evangelist for Microsoft
"Yep, ZoomIt was *the* tool for me until Win7 (now it’s just built in :-) ).

Some other tools I’d think about:
- Windows Live Writer (how I post all my blog entries, plus it has great plugins)
- Reflector
- The built in dev tools in IE8
- Fiddler
- Any of the tools from SysInternals (now available via TechNet) – AutoRuns, Process Explorer, PsTools, etc."

Julie Lerman, international speaker and author that runs the Vermont .NET User Group
"Okay my #1 favorite tool right now is LINQPad.

I have to test a lot of LINQ queries in Entity Framework and now that LINQPad supports EF, I use it all of the time rather than spinning up a console app in Visual Studio just to check out a query.

It is a fantastic tool. It’s free but well worth the $25 to get the Intellisense like support.

LINQPad is great for LINQ to Object, LINQ to SQL & LINQ to Entities and even supports Entity SQL queries. It shows you the IL as well as the TSQL and of course the query results. www.linqpad.net

I’m also going to use it to distribute the many LINQ query samples for both VB and C# for the next version of my book."

Joe Stagner, Microsoft, does all of those great ASP.NET learning videos
"1.) Polystyle
Since I so often get different code from customers, Polystyle will reformat / organize just about anything into a clearly readable format.
2.) Tangible Converters
Since I write so much code for others, these converters turn C# into VB and Vise Versa. Saves me a TON of time."

Scott Hanselman, noted Microsoft guru
He didn't reply directly but we found it interesting that less than a week after my email this was his blog entry:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheWeeklySourceCode...
Then a couple days after that he updated his tools list and reposted it:
http://www.hanselman.com/tools
Both are gems and worth bookmarking.