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Chirpy Zippy – A Visual Studio add-in that Mashes, minifies, and validates your JavaScript, Stylesheet, and dotless files. Chirpy can also auto-update T4MVC and other T4 templates.

ELMAH– If you are not using ELMAH than you should be. ELMAH is the ultimate tool for logging errors in your MVC application. It requires very little setup but delivers a boat load of features.

ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Framework – One of the best ways to boost the performance of your website is to reduce the number of HTTP requests required to render a page. One way to reduce the amount of requests is to use CSS sprites or inline images.

MVC Contrib – T4MVC is a small part of the MVC Contrib library which contains various utilities for the realm of ASP.NET MVC development.

T4MVC - I blogged about T4MVC before but its always worth mentioning again. T4MVC is a T4 template for ASP.NET MVC apps that creates strongly typed helpers that eliminate the use of literal strings when referring the controllers, actions and views. It helps make your MVC code much more maintainable, and gives you intellisense where you normally would not have any.