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The Daily Grind 650

By Mike Gunderloy
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

A birthday party of one-year-olds sure makes a tremendous mess.

Software

Power Collections 1.0 released - If you want a batch of extra generic collections for .NET 2.0, here they are.
VSIP SDK For June VS CTP is released - If you're trying to build Visual Studio 2005 add-ins and trying to stay on the bleeding edge, this is the piece for you.
PostgreSQL Manager 3.0 - DBA tool for PostgreSQL, $195.

Information

Whidbey RTM Tell Mode! - Slowly but surely, the bits for Visual Studio 2005 are being locked down.
NHibernate vs. NEO: Face to Face. Part I - Two ORM frameworks compared.
eXtreme eXtensibility - How to build XML schemas to allow for easy future extensibility to the data model. (via Obie Fernandez)

Community

Hammering in Screws - Scott Hanselman explores some of the difficulty of using e-mail for communication.
Blogn' my way to the PDC: The Regex Challenge - Roy Osherove wants to teach you something about Regex on his way to the PDC.

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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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