The Daily Grind 742

There will be a planned outage on the Larkware site tonight from about 6PM Pacific time until some time on Saturday as I replace the limping temporary server with a more permanent machine.

Software

• Codus v1.2 Released - The ORM tool now includes MySQL and NHibernate support, among other features.
• DWG TrueView - Free viewer from Autodesk for the file format used by AutoCAD.
• Works Suite 2006 - Microsoft has revised their other suite. I dunno who the heck the target market is, but it's not me (though my five-year-old does dig Encarta).
• Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86) - The release version.
• Connection String generation Visual Studio macro - Dang, why didn't I think of this? John Conwell shows how to call the Data Link Properties dialog, get your connection string back to your code. (via Jon Galloway)
• StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer for Windows - Free tool to find and test Web services.

Information

• Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 shipped! - Oh boy. Watch for the MSDN download servers to slow to a crawl.
• Getting Visual Studio 2005 - Daniel Fernandez talks about the various steps in the distribution dance.

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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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