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The
Daily Grind 509
By Mike Gunderloy
Friday, November 26, 2004
I trust those of you who took a holiday yesterday had a good one. This
issue of the Daily Grind is a bit unusual: all of these links were submitted by
readers in response to my 500th issue
contest.
I hope you'll find something interesting in the mix.
Software
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MZ-Tools 4.0 for Visual
Studio .NET - I used MZ-Tools for VB6; it's a great set of add-ins. I
hadn't realized that there was a version for VB .NET with such features as
fast control name editing, some refactoring, private clipboards, autosave,
an extensibility API, and much more. Licensing from $39.95 (via John Barone)
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VSS Remoting v2.1 - Remote
access solution for Visual Sourcesafe. Uses HTTPS and integrates with Visual
Studio. Free for single user. (via Onur Biyik)
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Free Images - Pointers to some free stock images on the Web. (via
Shannon J. Hager)
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Open Source C#
Programmable Calculator - I mentioned this one back when it was
closed-source, but now you can see how it's done too. (via Eric
Bergman-Terrell)
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Password Minder - Manage, generate,
and retrieve passwords securely from a central repository. (via Chris
Burgess)
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Gmail Notifier -
System tray icon to let you know when you have new Gmal messages. (via Chris
Burgess)
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Now "Paste As.." in VS.NET with Smart Paster Add-In - Paste as string,
comment, or region. (via Chris Burgess)
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Lavarnd - Random number generation via
Lava Lamp. (via Chris Burgess)
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SqlBuddy - Free IDE for MSDE/SQL
Server written in C#. (via Chris Burgess)
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ORM.NET :
Object-Relational Mapping and Code Generation Tool for .NET -
Open-source tool in the ORM sweepstakes. (via Adwait Ullal)
Hardware
Information
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Google Watch - News, conspiracy,
and tin-foil-hat theories about the leading search engine. (via Onur Biyik)
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Microsoft Interview Questions - The big list from Chris Sells. Microsoft
is reportedly moving away from this sort of crap, which I think is a Good
Thing. Certainly knowing that these things were a big part of interviewing
there was one of the things that kept me from ever following up on a
Microsoft job offer. (via Onur Biyik)
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How to retrieve an icon based on the file type - Interop code to be used
for this purpose from inside .NET applications. (via Shannon J. Hager)
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E-voting News and Analysis, From
the Experts - Non-partisan information site. Be interesting to see
whether they remain active now that the US Presidential election is over.
(via Shannon J. Hager)
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SiliconBeat - Weblog of innovation
and money in Silicon Valley. (via Adwait Ullal)
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AdwaitsDotNetJobs - Yahoo! mailing list of job openings for .NETters.
(via Adwait Ullal)
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Ads
to pop up when TiVo users scan past commercials - Choice quote about
pending legislation: "The bill has a provision to prohibit technology that
skips commercials during a DVD or televised movie; opponents, including
advocacy group Public Knowledge, say the provision would make it a crime to
fast-forward through a commercial." Sure is nice to live in the land of the
free sometimes. (via Darrell Norton)
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Initialization phase of
a Setup program may take longer than expected to complete in Windows XP
- Classic KB article with hotfix. As the submitter points out, the article
raises as many questions as it answers: "Are my setup times longer than
expected (whose isn't) or maybe I should just lower my expectations out of
XP? Am I experiencing this specific problem? Am I not severely affected by
this problem?" (via Itai Shaham)
Community
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Orcas: Code Builders -
Mitch Denny suggests how the next Visual Studio could make life even more
productive (scroll down, there's much more after the first three
paragraphs). (via Onur Biyik)
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House of Blues: RSS Feeds - Yes, RSS
is everywhere, even tracking concerts and events. (via Shannon J. Hager)
Winners
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Well, I'm pretty happy with the way that turned out. Plenty there for me to
chew on, and hopefully for you too. But, you know, a contest has to have
winners. I took a batch of stuff into account when deciding: whether I'd
seen the link before, how much it fit in with the Daily Grind zeitgeist, and
the state of my pineal gland. Anyhow, in my purely subjective opinion, the
winners are: John Barone, Chris Burgess, and Onur Biyik. Congratulations,
and you'll each be receiving a free book! Stay tuned for the next Daily
Grind contest in a few hundred more issues.
Mike Gunderloy is
the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on
programming topics.


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