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The Daily Grind 473

By Mike Gunderloy
Monday, October 4, 2004

SpaceShipOne made it to the edge of space again. Somehow that makes my efforts to figure out e-mail in the .NET Compact Framework seem pretty insignificant.

Software

Open Workbench - Open-source alternative to Microsoft Project. Doesn't include all the integration features of Project, but looks reasonably functional.
Paint.net 1.1 - .NET-based replacement for Paint, now with plug-ins as well as various effects. Windows XP only.
DBMethods - Library to allow calling SQL queries and stored procedures from managed code with minimal effort.
An XSD to .NET language code class generator that adds real punch to Microsoft's XSD Tool - The author replaces the Microsoft tool in search of more robust output.
Announcing the MSBuild Compatibility Toolkit 1.0 - Robert McLaws comes up with a way to use the new VS2005 build tool to target downlevel projects. It's an interesting approach, but I would be very careful about using such an unsupported hack, no matter how brilliant, on production code.
Database Resetter - Tool to remove data from a SQL Server test database and reset all the identity values in one fell swoop.
GhostDoc 1.2.0 Released - Upgrade to the tool that automatically deduces XML documentation based on member naming.

Information

Paging of Large Resultsets in ASP.NET - An article comparing the efficiency of various approaches to writing paged SQL statements.
Fedora Core 2 on VMware Workstation 4.5.2 - Advice for getting this combination working. I've got it almost working, but I'm having wacky problems where the input is only active for one second, and then the whole VM goes to sleep for three seconds. Lather, rinse, power off.
How to get your RSS/RDF feed working with Mozilla Firefox's Live Bookmarks - Basically, add an alternative link in the <head> section, though it would be nice of the Firefox folks to make this more obvious to site authors.

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

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