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The Daily Grind 631

By Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, May 26, 2005

Looks like another day of mostly software here.

Software

Mono Live - Live linux CD with all the bits you need to try out the Mono Framework 1.1.7 without any of that bothersome compiling stuff. (via David Murphy)
vXCopy - Multi-Threded Files Copy Tool - Version 1.0 Released - A .NET 2.0 learning project that might turn out to be useful.
dtSearch 7.0 - Now able to index over a terabyte of text in a single index, with search times under a second.
POS for .NET SDK - That's "Point Of Sale", not something ruder that might be springing to mind.
XMS - XML database with free .NET development tools.
NPlot - Free charting library for .NET with support for Windows forms, ASP.NET, and GTK# (the Mono forms library).
ZedGraph - Spiffy looking free .NET charting library

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 (Beta) Compatibility - The current dope on breaking changes, including a link to a help file with detailed info. I've read over it, and despite some sensationalistic press coverage, most of this is very minor stuff.
VS2005 and .NET FX 2.0 Application Compatibility - S. Somasegar discusses the app compatability stuff and invites developer feedback.

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