How to: Easily explore technical artifacts in SharePoint 2010 and even delete site collections and webs

As a SharePoint developer you probably find yourself in the situation where using the SharePoint central administration becomes a rather painful task as many of them take several clicks and it is not easy to obtain a nice tree view of all the information you need and take actions on them. However, if you look around you’ll come around the SharePoint Developer Explorer. It is a great tool for any SharePoint developer and you’ll come to appreciate it soon enough.