Can I compare two databases from within SQL Server Management Studio

Hi everyone. I haven't found anything online, so I wanted to ask here. I have two SQL Server databases running on our server. One is the production database, and another is my development database that I use when I'm working on the program.
I add tables and columns and stuff to my development database, and was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to from within Management Studio or something to compare the two databases to make sure that they are the same and show me any differences.
I generally add tables or columns to both databases at the same time, but I worry that one time I might forget, so I would like to be able to run some sort of compare / check to make sure before releases...
Thanks everyone for your help. I greatly appreciate it.

There is a command line utility that is with Microsoft SQL Management Studio called
tablediff:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162843%28v=sql.105%29.aspx
An example:
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1073/sql-server-tablediff-command-line-utility/
And using it with multiple tables at once looks like some work but doable:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/repltalk/archive/2010/02/21/how-to-run-tablediff-utility-for-all-replicated-published-tables-in-sql-2005-or-sql-2008.aspx
...and some custom code to implement in an answer at StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10688/best-tool-for-auto-generating-sql-change-scripts-for-sql-server?rq=1

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