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The Daily Grind 598

By Mike Gunderloy
Monday, April 11, 2005

Somehow I managed a productive weekend despite the siren song of good weather and gardening.

Software

CodeSmith 3.0 Public Beta - Oooh, now this is one I'm going to have to get my hands dirty with. An excellent template-based code generator appears to be getting excellenter.
Office PIA Sample Launcher - GotDotNet project with some realistic samples for .NET programming of Word, Excel, and Office CommandBars. There's also an accompanying article. (via John R. Durant)
HTA Helpomatic - Turn your VBScript files into HTA applications.
SpectrumSCM 2.2 - New version of this highly configurable source configuration and management tool features 3-way diff/merge and change request filtering, among other goodies.
New patch for Enterprise Library released - If you're using Enterprise Library 2.0, you'll want to grab this to avoid the memory leak.
Professional Validation and More 3.0 - New version of this excellent, excellent set of ASP.NET validation controls. Pricing starts at $40 per production server, and if you're doing an application with serious data entry requirements it's worth it.

Information

NGen Revs Up Your Performance with Powerful New Features - See what's coming in NGen in .NET 2.0. Light reading for .NET internals wonks :) (via Brad Abrams)
ICANN Approves Two More Internet Suffixes - Coming eventually to domains somewhere near you, .travel and .jobs. *yawn*
VB6: Not yet gone or forgotten - Another little something I did for SearchVB.com.
Bitwise Operations and Bit Masks - All that you could want to know.
The disappointment of ADO.NET - An experienced programmer tries to use ADO.NET and comes away unimpressed by its object model.

Community

The Beta Experience - Looks like the release date for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is officially April 25 - and that SQL Server 2005 Beta 3 will be even later than that. So much for "by the end of March".
F Sharp Wiki - If you want to know more about the experimental F# language for the CLR, here's a new starting point (via Don Syme)

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

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