MDB Artisan offers an easy tool for exploring and documenting Access databases.
A new and mysterious entrant in the MSI-editing field provides an interesting and useful alternative to Microsoft's Orca editor.
This "code-oriented IDE" provides a lighter-weight alternative to Visual Studio .NET for some .NET development projects.
ActiveReports offers a solid reporting solution for .NET applications. You may well find it superior to the built-in Crystal Reports.
FinalBuilder provides a complete GUI environment for building all sorts of Windows software. Version 2.0 adds a bunch of new features to an already-impressive product.
This cross-platform Mac and PC drawing application is a viable alternative to more expensive programs such as Visio.
Log Explorer turns your SQL Server transaction logs into a powerful tool for browsing and recovering lost data. DBAs will find it an essential tool.
A calculator that you can program in C# and that understands RPN - what more could you ask?
As developers look to SOAP-oriented Web services to do more, ensuring app quality becomes more difficult. Can test tool advances keep up?
In requirements management, as in most development projects, testing
tends to be the forgotten stepsister.
Mike Gunderloy reviews IBM Rational XDE Developer .NET Edition v2003.06
and DriverStudio 3.0
Our take on vendor development offerings over the years.
How does RFID stack up? It is classic new-technology riddle. In the spheres of supply-chain and logistics software, it is now a matter of constant discussion.
The partnership between XML and OO will be successful if XML finally
gets OO programmers to accept declarative approaches to programming.
Are IT development organizations ready to start building simpler,
low-end Java applications for multiple platforms rather than using the Microsoft
tools for just Windows?
ADT's editors sort through the people, events and trends that made
2003 what it was.