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Below are some articles about useful software utilities:

• Affmeter affiliate income monitoring software review. Affmeter is a useful tool for monitoring the amount of income generated from Internet affiliate marketing programs. It supports all of the major affiliate income schemes such as Google Adsense, Commission Junction, Linkshare and Clickbank. By allowing a website owner to track income it allows that user to focus future efforts on the affiliate schemes that earn significant revenue, and ditch those that don't.

• ASP Spell Check review. This software allows developers to add spell checking facilities to their Internet and Intranet web applications. ASP.NET is also supported.

• Text Workbench review. Text Workbench is a comprehensive file search and replacement utility for text files and Microsoft Office documents.

• Regular Expression Laboratory review. Regular Expressions allow sophisticated string pattern matching to be used within applications. The Regular Expression Laboratory allows developers to test out regular expressions before using them in their application code.

Code Documentors

I've also built these code documentors which allow developers to automatically create technical documentation from application source code:

• ASP Documentation Tool: A code documentor for Microsoft Active Server Pages (both VBScript and JScript scripting languages are supported).

• .NET Documentation Tool: A code documentor for the Microsoft .NET Framework (both the VB.NET and C# programming languages are supported).

• SQL Documentation Tool: A database documentor for the Microsoft SQL Server relational database.

• Visual Basic 6.0 Documentation Tool: A code documentor for Visual Basic 6.0.

Other Software

• The Website Utility: A useful software application for website owners. Features include link checking, search engine optimisation and ability to build a search engine for a website.

Useful Development Tools

ASP Documentation Tool™

Automatically creates developer documentation for ASP 2.0 and 3.0 web applications written in VBScript and JScript. Documentation for Microsoft Access, SQL Server 7/2000 databases and Visual Basic 6.0 components associated with the web application can also be incorporated into the reports. Documentation is created in HTML, HTML Help and plain text formats.

View Sample Output (HTML Help format).     View Sample Output (HTML Format).     Download Trial Version (5.2Mb ZIP file).

.NET Documentation Tool

Automatically creates technical documentation for .NET Framework Windows and ASP.NET applications written in C# or VB.NET and SQL Server 7/2000/2005 or Microsoft Access databases associated with the application. Documentation is created in HTML, HTML Help and plain text formats.

View Sample Output (HTML Help format).     View Sample Output (HTML Format).     Download Trial Version (5Mb ZIP file).

SQL Documentation Tool

The SQL Documentation Tool creates technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 databases. Technical documentation is created in HTML and HTML Help formats. The HTML Help format documentation is fully searchable and cross referenced. The SQL Documentation Tool documents SQL Server Tables, Views, Stored Procedures, Triggers and Table Relationships.

View Sample Output (HTML Help format).     View Sample Output (HTML Format).     Download Trial Version (10.3Mb ZIP file).

VB Documentation Tool

The VB Documentation Tool creates technical documentation for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 projects. Technical documentation is created in HTML and HTML Help formats. The HTML Help format documentation is fully searchable and cross referenced.

View Sample Output (HTML Help format).     View Sample Output (HTML Format).     Download Trial Version (1Mb ZIP file).

Indexing Service Companion

The Indexing Service Companion is a Windows application that extends the functionality of the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service so that it is able to index content from remote websites and also from ODBC databases. As such it can be used as a low cost alternative to Sharepoint Portal Search Services.

Try Sample Search Facility.     Download Trial Version (1.7Mb ZIP file).

The Website Utility

The Website Utility examines websites for errors and areas that need to be optimised for search engines by using a built in web crawling engine. Errors checked for include broken or moved hyperlinks, missing page titles and missing meta tags. It also generates HTML for use in creating website site maps (table of contents pages - like this one), and is able to create both client-side JavaScript Search Engines and server-side ASP Search Engines for a website.

View Sample Output (HTML Format).     Download Trial Version (3Mb ZIP file).

PHP Documentation Tool™

Automatically creates developer documentation for PHP web applications. Documentation is created in HTML, HTML Help and plain text formats.

View Sample Output (HTML Help format).     View Sample Output (HTML Format).     Download Trial Version (1.0Mb ZIP file).