Reviews & Testimonials

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Product Reviews

Paul Ferrill reviewed SmartInspect for DevX.com and wrote an article about debugging multi-threaded .NET applications with it. Some quotes from the article:

"SmartInspect from Gurock Software uses a mixture of old-fashioned techniques with tight Visual Studio integration to help ease the pain of debugging multithreaded applications."

"Saving a few hours over the course of a week with this product will justify the cost in a short period of time. An added benefit to this product is the ability to embed logging capabilities that can be enabled with a configuration change or by setting an option on a menu."

» Read the full review on the DevX website

Dermot Hogan tested and reviewed SmartInspect for the Bitwise Magazine. Bitwise is a free online magazine for technically literate computer users.

"Initially, I was a little sceptical about SmartInspect. It didn't seem to offer very much over the usual Trace/Debug facilities available in Visual Studio. But then I started using the SmartInspect console. And I have to say, I was impressed. Very impressed. For the first time I could get an overview of what my multithreaded communications application was actually doing – where the asynchronous thread activations were occurring and, more importantly, when they were occurring."

» Read the full review in the Bitewise Magazine

Mike Riley reviewed SmartInspect for the asp.netPRO Magazine website. A short quote from the review:

"One of SmartInspect's most helpful features is its ability to isolate thread analysis. This benefit alone is worth the price of the product. Any developer who has struggled to debug an application serving hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of users simultaneously trying to debug individual threads with a standard debugger knows how challenging and tedious such a task would be. Enable SmartInspect's process flow with AutoView rules and each newly created thread can be closely monitored throughout the thread's lifespan for any anomalies."

» Read the full review on the asp.netPRO website

A 4-page SmartInspect review was printed in the October 2005 issue of the Delphi Magazine. A short quote from the review written by Craig Murphy:

"SmartInspect is some tool. Its user interface is clean and appealing. Installation and use is very easy. Its array of logging/monitoring features (from text through structured types to images) is remarkable. Its ability to integrate into your application and log either over a network or to a file is especially useful. Well done to the boys at Gurock: this is a well-crafted logging tool that makes light work of instrumenting applications to include logging."

» Magazine subscribers can download the full review

Mike Gunderloy, author of books like Coder to Developer and Developer to Designer, reviewed SmartInspect for his popular software development weblog Larkware.com.

"After playing with it for a while, I'm impressed with how slick this piece of software is, and especially with the depth of information that you can easily log. On the .NET side of the equation, at least, it beats the hell out of the built-in Trace and Debug classes"

» Read the full review on Larkware.com

John Spano tested and reviewed SmartInspect for DevCity.NET. He also included a useful Visual Studio macro in the review to instrument .NET methods with SmartInspect code. Some short quotes from the review:

"Overall I was very impressed with SmartInspect. It's easy to use with almost no learning curve and the logs are presented in a useful way instead of lines of useless text. I've only scraped the surface of the log viewer here and its capabilities. I highly suggest you download a demo copy and play with it yourself."

» Read the full review on DevCity.NET

Customer Testimonials

David Lambert of Digital Matrix sent us a testimonial for SmartInspect:

"Thanks for such a great piece of software, SmartInspect. It is awesome. I debug high end multi-threaded servers and it is a life saver. I've been using SmartInspect for a few months now and have never had a problem with it."

"I've got it running as a universal logging system throughout most of our systems. So now when people have a problem I just load the log into SmartInspect and am able to more quickly process everything. I've even split up parts of our server into different SmartInspect Sessions so that I get a color coded stream of messages. This way I can see exactly in which part of the server the error occurs. It has saved me so much time when I've got literally minutes to fix a problem and throw it back into production."

Detlef D. Doerscheln of 3D Components sent us a testimonial for SmartInspect. Here are some quotes from the testimonial:

"SmartInspect Professional to me is a real time saver and software shops using FlexiBatch.NET are absolutely stunned how easy it is for them to check their configuration."

"SmartInspect Professional got better and better with every release and I can hardly wait for the next version to see what the smart people at Gurock Software are coming up with this time."

» Read the full testimonial of Detlef D. Doerscheln

Gerben ten Wolde of Ten Hove ICT sent us a testimonial for SmartInspect. Here are some quotes from the testimonial:

"A product might be ok on its own merits, but can become really good when there are committed developers backing it up. I think this is the case with SmartInspect and Gurock software. All the signs are there, a well designed and 'to-the-point' website, frequent updates of the product within the current version and, maybe most important of all, solid support on technical issues."

"In conclusion I can say that, although the art of logging is by now a public secret, SmartInspect really makes a difference when it comes to usability and comfort for both developers and end-users."

» Read the full testimonial of Gerben ten Wolde

Jacques Gonzalez of J4SOFT sent us the following testimonial for SmartInspect:

"What is surprising with SmartInspect is its capacity to support advanced logging needs with ease. But it is nothing compared to the impressive quality of the support and the excellent advice that Gurock provides even in difficult scenario. I recommend this product to anybody who needs an effective logging solution."

Andrea Nagar of Nagarsoft sent us the following testimonial for SmartInspect:

"SmartInspect is a godsend for debugging multi-thread and low-level code. I use it for Direct Access and it really made a difference."

Robert Smith sent us the following testimonial for SmartInspect:

"Kind words are not enough to express my gratitude for your component/app! It is a LIFESAVER! One of the best purchases I have made in regards to Delphi."

Bloggers

Dan Miser wrote a short review of SmartInspect on his blog. Here is an excerpt of the review:

"I would highly recommend this product. This company has gone from nothing to having one of the most professional product experiences I have ever seen. They have a very complete, nice-looking, and easily navigable web site; incredibly great documentation (both in general and for developers); trial versions; multiple support options (forum, knowledge base, and email); a blog; walk through samples; and an extremely well-polished user interface. I wish all companies came on to the scene with such a thorough attention to detail."

» Read the full posting on Dan Miser's blog

Nick Hodges, Delphi Product Manager, wrote about SmartInspect on his blog:

"I continue to be impressed by the stuff that our Technology Partners produce. Lots of cool stuff. The tool that I want to highlight in today's Partner Spotlight is the logging tool SmartInspect from Gurock Software. [...] Nice stuff, guys."

» Read the full posting on Nick Hodges blog

Roy Osherove reviewed SmartInspect as part of a promotion on his blog. Here are some short quotes from the review:

"The guys at Gurock seemed to have spent just as much time on documenting the abilities of this product as they did building it, and it shows. The help is easy to read and helped me a lot figuring out my first steps using the product. The main UI of the product includes very easy to understand tutorials for beginners on Java, VB.NET, C# and Delphi development with their framework."

"Overall, The fully-baked abilities of SmartInspect along with the impressive UI would be near perfect, but due to the missing features mentioned here, I have to give this product an 8 out of 10, which is still whole lot of functionality in a product that starts at $229 per license."

» Read the full posting on Roy Osherove's blog

International

The German dot.net magazin published a six pages article about SmartInspect in the 1/2.2007 issue. Here is an summary of the article (in German):

Besseres Logging mit SmartInspect unter .NET
Für den Fall, dass eine Anwendung abstürzt oder hängen bleibt, wird häufig mit einem Neustart reagiert. Dieser Artikel zeigt eine Vorgehensweise für das Vermeiden dieser "Ein/Aus-Schalten"-Situationen nach dem Auftreten eines echten oder vermeintlichen Fehlers durch systematisches Logging – entweder mithilfe eines Open-Source-Tools wie log4net oder durch das noch relativ unbekannte SmartInspect, das in diesem Artikel ausführlicher vorgestellt wird.