The Daily Grind 536

By Mike Gunderloy
Monday, January 10, 2005

Lots of stuff piled up over the weekend. I guess vacation times must be over.

Software

WapgGui - GUI front end for the APG password generator. Want passwords like "CekArWux3" for free? You've come to the right place. Plenty of options.
Line Counter and Complexity - John Wood has developed a couple of command-line tools to determine source code metrics for C# code, to be run as part of an automated build process.
NetDig 2.5 RC1 - Native windows "dig" client. If you don't know what dig is, you probably don't need this, but if you do, it's handy. (via Peter Provost)
XML Visualizer for Visual Studio .NET 2003 - Debug-time tool to let you see what's lurking in a bunch of XML and ADO.NET types. (via Roy Osherove)
OutlookSpy 2.8 - Outlook add-in for snooping around in the Outlook object model, a place where I personally hate snooping. (via Matt Griffith)
Pollix Live CD - Bootable Linux CD with a whole raft of Java, Python, and Perl tools already installed. (via Stefano Demiliani)
Scott's List of Great Tools for your TabletPC - Scott Hanselman has done it again, this time with a list of things to download and install on your TabletPC.
Free Widgets - Through January 16, you can get a free copy of Graphics Server .NET: Widgets Edition - a very nice set of custom controls for dressing up Windows forms.
WilsonORMapper v3.1 Released One Year Exactly After v1.0 - More progress in this, one of the leading object/relational mapping tools for .NET.

Book Review: Developer to Designer - Ed Ball gets to be the first one to publish a review of my latest book (well, latest on the shelves - there are two more getting ready to come out of the pipeline). It's a fair review, I think.
Full source for The Regulator released - Roy Osherove has put out the source for his Regex tool. He doesn't want you looking at it too closely, though.

My new development project- blogging the development lifecycle for a digital asset management solution - Randy Holloway is launching a new software project with complete online transparency. He's looking for feedback on his initial vision before he dives in. Go give him some.

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