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The Daily Grind 637

By Mike Gunderloy
Friday, June 3, 2005

Pack for Tech Ed? Nope, I expect to spend my weekend planting tomatoes. Gotta have a sense of priorities.

Software

XML2PDF 2.3 - AltSoft has added support for WordML as an input to its XSL-FO formatting engine, making an easy way to convert Word documents to PDF. Trial download, pricing from $49.
MSDE Manager - User interface for managing MSDE or SQL Server. Does all the standard DBA stuff for $79.
MaxiVista v2 - Software KVM joins this excellent multiple monitor utility's list of features. (via Adrian Bateman)

Information

Eclipse for Visual Studio developers - Free (registration required) tutorial from IBM.
New Recommendations for Using Strings in Microsoft .NET 2.0 - Best practices for localization-ready software are changing a bit. (via Michael Kaplan)

Community

Welcome to The Regulator Logo Contest! - Come up with a new logo for The Regulator, win a license for the excellent ActiPro SyntaxEditor.

Sponsor

This edition of The Daily Grind is sponsored by .netCHARTING,
who offers a fully functional free developer version of their
high end .NET charting control for testing and development.

Click here to download (WinForms and WebForms, no timeout)

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

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