Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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My Toolbox column in the December 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is available online and includes the following reviews:
- Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools - a Visual Studio Add In that improves the LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework Designers, allowing you to quickly rename objects, update the object model to reflect the latest relational model changes, and auto-document the object model based on column descriptions in the database.
- Blogs of Note: Oren Eini a/k/a Ayende Rahien - Oren Eini is the creator of Rhino Mocks and a contributor to the NHibernate project. On his blog you'll find posts covering a spectrum of topics, and his output - at times Oren writes three or more posts per day - is impressive. A must-read for .NET developers and architects.
- SQL Multi Script - SQL Multi Script is a desktop application for executing one query against multiple databases. This tool is useful for DBAs who manage several databases and with Software as a Service-type applications that use separate databases for each customer.
- Tabs Studio - a Visual Studio Add In that improves the tabbed user interface. Unlike VS's default tabbed interface, with Tabs Studio tabs are stacked vertically, if needed, so that you can see a tab for every open document. Tabs Studio also groups related documents into a single tab and the appearance of all tabs, the currently selected tab, and the previously selected tab can be customized.
There was no book review in this issue.
Enjoy! - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee819138.aspx