Tools Required to start developing in .Net

Firstly the main tool Visual Studio IDE : https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/

Advanced version of Notepad, Notepad ++ : https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

If you need to create Virtual Machines Virtual Box : https://www.virtualbox.org/

Other free tools provided by Microsoft which include TFS : https://www.visualstudio.com/free-developer-offers/

* Microsoft has also announced that most of these products will now work on linux and Mac .