The Daily Grind 658

And a happy 4th of July to all of you readers. Out here, that's a day for fireworks and appreciation.

Software

• Sample Code Generator - Takes an XSD schema as input and generates sample code showing how to mark up C# and VB.Net classes so that when serialized with the XML serializer, the resulting XML will be valid according to the original schema.
• Aurora Beta version 5.0 - Design Avalon within Visual Studio 2005. (via Michael Swanson)
• Visual Paradigm for UML 5.0 - Round-trip UML/Java tool with new Microsoft Office look-and-feel, UML 2.0 support, EJB support, and all sorts of other bells and whistles.
• patterns & practices Enterprise Library - A minor update to the January release is out.
• Resizeable Textarea 0.1a - A nice little extension for those of us running Firefox.
• Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Beta 2 IntelliSense Code Snippets - A batch of common code tidbits for VSTO.
• Junction Shell Extensions - Travis Illig has added a property sheet handler to the existing icon overlay to make it even easier to work with junction points in Windows Explorer
• CliqueSite® NewsBlog - New free ASP.NET 2.0 blogging engine.

Information

• The Growing VSTS Ecosystem - A list of applications that integrate with the coming Visual Studio Team System.

Community

• Suggest a blog - CNET News.com is collecting tech blog suggestions. I don't know why. (via Software Marketing Resource Blog)
• Warning: Bad Specs Hazardous to Productivity - Rob Walling points out something that should be obvious: you ought to have your best people writing the specs for the product.
• CodeSmith Jobs - Most amusing is the one that wants 3+ years of CodeSmith experience. Still, it's cool to see a small ISV tool like this showing up in job requirements. (via Eric J. Smith)

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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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