I've worked with RadControls for over a year and all I can still say is WOW.
My RadControls Suite allows me to do VERY cool on things eFolkMusic in just a few hours that would
normally take me DAYS to do; not including the raw learning
curve. With RadControls I use techniques I am familiar with ... AND ... THEY WORK!!
RadControls has enhanced eFolkMusic immeasurably and continues to be the ONLY UI
component in my development suite.
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Telerik
is a
leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for
ASP.NET and
Windows
Forms, and
.NET
Reporting solutions. Building on our expertise in interface development
and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled
richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products
help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable
applications under budget and on time. |
Sourcegear Vault™
This server/client application saves me hours of work and allows me to
easily go back to the last version that worked. In addition, I can back up to ANY version
stored in the repository. Sharing allows files to appear in multiple locations within projects,
but if any changes are made to any of the copies, all copies are updated.
Branching allows two files to be created from a single file, essentially branching off into two separate versions
that are updated independently after the branch. This is where design (Chris) and coding (me)
can really be separate.
Chris and I aren't sure how we
developed without this valuable tool. If more than one person works on your project, you really need Vault™
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Vault™ is a version control tool designed to be a compelling replacement for
Visual SourceSafe. |
When a page fails I can have the site send an email to my installation of FogBugz
and FolgBugz sends me an email to tell me I have something to fix. What is REALLY
cool is that Sourcegear Vault and FogBugz integrate to make a very valuable tool
to track problems and requests and how those issues were resolved -- Lynda |
FogBugz helps teams work together by tracking, prioritizing, and coordinating the
thousands of small tasks a development team has to do.
Watch a demo »
FogBugz helps you make better software. It’s web based, so everyone
on the team always sees the whole picture. Feature requests, customer email, bugs,
even high level design discussions are instantly searchable and trackable.
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eFolkMusic relies on 52 tables, over 300 stored procedures and almost 70 user-defined
functions to display our pages and maintain content. Without this vary valuable
tool, I would be keeping hand-written list of dependancies between tables, stored
procedures and UDFs. This is an application that should be in any database developers
utility suite. |
DB Documentor is a comprehensive database documentation system that will keep database
administrators, developers and programmers up to date on the structure of the databases
they work on.
Built on our DB Elementals platform, DB Documentor currently produces documentation
for SQL Server 2005, 2000 and MSDE database servers and will support
other databases as new modules become available.
DB Documentor is simple and quick to use and generates detailed documentation in
a familiar Microsoft MSDN style.
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redgate™
Remember what I said above about all the tables and other SQL Server objects I maintain?
Enter SQL Prompt by redgate software. This is Intellisense for SQL Server. Runs
in the background; can connect to either local or remote databases and just works
beautifully. Another strongly recommended tool for serious development. |
SQL Prompt automates the retrieval of database
object names, syntax and snippets as you write, intelligently offering
only appropriate code choices. In addition to displaying
the object creation-SQL script, SQL Prompt is highly customizable so you can make
it perform exactly the way you want.
Using SQL Prompt will improve your productivity
and dramatically reduce your time at the keyboard. See the animation below displaying
a typical scripting event and how much effort and time SQL Prompt can save you.
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Product and company names mentioned are copyrighted and/or trademarked by their
respective companies. Again, my sincere thanks to all of these fine people. --Lynda |