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Developer Software

Visual Express 2013 for Desktop (Free)

Or

Visual Studio Express 2015 for Desktop (Free)  - Recommended as supports better error checking

https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs

VisualHG - http://visualhg.codeplex.com

Mercurial source control provider plugin for MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008 and MS Visual Studio 2010, MS Visual Studio 2012.

TortoiseHG - http://tortoisehg.codeplex.com

Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system.

For Releases

7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org

,,Compression program to create releases in Self-Extracting file.

(See instructions on how to create self extracting file) How-To

please add others as required