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The Daily Grind 743

By Mike Gunderloy
Monday, October 31, 2005

The new server is in place and, as far as I can tell, running smoothly.

Software

EZWeb 2.0 released - ready for your ASP.NET 2.0 host - Quick site building tool for .NET 2.0.
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Downloads - Still in beta, but Oracle is getting into the free database business to compete with SQL Server Express.
10 Free .NET Development Tools - You may already know about everything on Richard Slade's list, but it wouldn't hurt to check it out just in case.
Windows "Monad" Shell Beta 2 (for .NET Framework 2.0 RC/RTM) x86 and Windows "Monad" Shell Beta 2 (for .NET Framework 2.0 RC/RTM) x64 - No doubt we'll see a flurry of revised downloads of things now that .NET 2.0 has gone gold.
AxCMS.net 5.0 - Free .NET based content-management system. They're also running a contest right at the moment.

Top X ways to learn about ClickOnce - Good set of pointers to resources on ClickOnce deployment.
Microsoft building a fully Web-based Office? - Some columnist takes a throwaway remark about "hosted Office" and spins a fantasy about a "Web 2.0" Office. Um, no. And certainly not within the 1-year timeframe this ding-dong is predicting.
Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality - Forthcoming Apress book with a couple of chapters available for preview download.
Generics FAQ: Fundamentals, Generics FAQ: Best Practices, Generics FAQ: Tool Support, and Generics FAQ: .NET Framework - If you don't know all about .NET 2.0 generics, it won't be MSDN's fault.

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