August's Toolbox Column in MSDN Magazine

Published 07 July 06 01:36 PM | Scott Mitchell

My eighth Toolbox column in the August 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine is now avaiable online. The August issue examines three products:

Red-Gate Software's SQL Data Compare (version 5) - allows the data within two schema-identical databases to be compared and synchronized; very useful if you have a test and production database whose underlying data you want to sync (for example, pulling back the live data back to the test database for some 'real world' testing)
Error Logging Modules and Handlers (ELMAH) - a free, open-source collection of HTTP Modules and Handlers created by Atif Aziz for automatically logging unhandled exceptions and providing UIs for displaying the error log. ELMAH is the first thing I add to all of my new ASP.NET projects... [See this blog entry for more information...]
Sky Software's Shell MegaPack (version 7.1) - Shell MegaPack includes a series of ActiveX and .NET controls for providing the native Windows Explorer shell experience in a WinForms application.

Due to space limitations, this issue of the Toolbox column does not include a book review; it's been pushed to the September 2006 issue (sorry, I am just too verbose).

As always, if you have any suggestions for products or books to review for the Toolbox column, please send them into toolsmm@microsoft.com

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