The Daily Grind 408

Today I get to play with server monitoring utilities. Isn't life exciting?

Software

• Mono 1.0 - The open source implementation of the .NET Framework has reached release status. Spiffy new Web site look, too.
• Announcing Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Beta - That is, VS2K5 tools for working with Office 2003 projects.
• PocketZOOM - Magnification utility for use on the PocketPC.
• Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework 1.0 - Wow, that went from beta to release pretty fast.
• Rendezvous for Windows Technology Preview - Apple is bringing their zero-configuration networking technology to Windows (and sundry other operating systems). (via Matt Croyden)
• VistaDB Beta 3 - This commercial database project, designed as an alternative to Jet and MSDE for .NET applications, is moving along.

Information

• Visual Studio Express 2005 - C# Edition - will upgrade your ASP.NET to 2.0 without asking...Fix here... - Scott Hanselman has the answer if you hit this problem with the new Express betas.
• SecurityDocs - Browsable and searchable collection of 2000+ white papers on security-related topics.
• MSN Search upgraded. Here's the press release. I ran a few comparison searches, and I don't see any reason to switch from Google yet, though of course your mileage may vary.

Community

• Bill Gates' Blog - At least, that's what it claims.
• Microsoft Employee Biographies - Not all of them, mind you, but a selection of developers and evangelists.

Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.

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