My Toolbox column in the September 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is avaiable online. The September issue examines three products:
- ASPxperience Suite - a suite of 18 ASP.NET server controls designed to enhance your web application's aesthetics and usability by presenting information in interesting and attractive ways.
- FTP for .NET 2.0 - a comprehensive API for connecting, uploading, and downloading files to and from an FTP server.
- DotImage Photo Pro - a powerful and easy-to-use imaging API with a number of imaging controls for WinForms and Web Forms.
This month's issue reviewed Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization, by Louis Davidson, Kevin Kline, and Kurt Windisch. Here is an excerpt from the review:
The scalability, extensibility, and maintainability of a database are directly related to the quality of its design. As such, it is important that the developers creating the data model for a data-driven application have a solid understanding of the principles of good design. Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization, by Louis Davidson, Kevin Kline, and Kurt Windisch (Apress, 2006), introduces readers to these principles and illustrates how to implement them in SQL Server™ 2005.
As always, if you have any suggestions for products or books to review for the Toolbox column, please send them into toolsmm@microsoft.com.