The Daily Grind 416

How about that, I passed the security exams. I guess I know a thing or two...like how to pass MCP exams.

Software

• PSPad - Another interesting-looking freeware programmer's editor with a good selection of features (via BetaNews)
• Samurize 1.55 - New version of the most configurable system monitor application around. (via SnapFiles)
• Groove v3 (Virtual Office) - New version of my favorite collaboration application. I'll be upgrading, though I do wish there was more installed base. And I also wish they'd spend a little time on their Web site. It looks sexy, but it's still one of the slowest-loading places I ever suffer through on the Web. (via S.B. Chatterjee)
• Ultimate Boot CD - A whole boatload of DOS utilities and diagnostic applications on a single bootable CD. (via Gammatron)
• Interoperability tool for Eclipse and .NET WinForms - Host Windows Forms controls in Eclipse. Wacky. But also an interesting way to speed the migration of some VS .NET add-ins to Eclipse. (via gsusx)
• Introducing: NUnitX and the Rollback attribute - Seamless database rollback with Nunit - Roy Osherove has built a version of NUnit that incorporates some of his ideas on automatic rollback of database operations. But he's done it by forking the project; hopefully he'll work with the core developers to get these changes into the main distribution.
• InstallAnywhere .NET - New commercial setup application for .NET programs.
• RUnit - Software to run NUnit test harnesses in ASP.NET applications.

Information

• Thoughts on setup repackaging and reverse engineering - Aaron Stebner offers some useful tools and tips for poking around inside of MSI files.

Community

• dotNet Influencers - Mike Schinkel has started a Wiki to bring together a community of influential .NET folks. It'll be interesting to see what develops here.

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

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