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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