September's Toolbox Column Online

Published 09 September 08 09:47 AM | Scott Mitchell

My Toolbox column in the September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is avaiable online. The September issue examines:

LINQPad - A free stand-alone LINQ editor/tester created by Joseph Albahari, author of C# 3.0 in a Nutshell. LINQPad is like SQL Query Analyzer, but for LINQ.
Blogs of Note - Rob Waling - Rob is an ASP.NET developer, independent contractor, and micro-ISV. Many blogs examine the latest coding tips and tricks, but Rob's blog is unique in that it focuses more on the business and interpersonal aspects of being a successful developer.
Logging Libraries - There are a number of logging libraries available for .NET. This issue of Toolbox looks at two popular libraries: the Enterprise Library and log4net. The Enterprise Library is an open-source collection of application blocks designed by Microsoft's patterns & practices group. It includes a logging application block that can be used to programmatically record status, warning, or error messages to a variety of log stores - the Windows Event Log, XML files, a database, and so on. log4net is another open-source logging library. It is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation and is a port of log4j, a logging library for Java.

There were no book reviews for this column.

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