The Daily Grind 851 by Mike Gunderloy Friday, March 31, 2006

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• Spices.Net 5.0 PreRelease is available for downloading - Spices.Net is 9Rays .NET decompiler, obfuscator, and general .NET assembly management tool. Prerelease download is here (with a temporary license through April 15), pricing from $692.95.
• FinalBuilder 4.1 - New release of this automated build tool includes Virtual Server and VMware Server integration, fileset support, COM+ actions, UI enhancements, and more. 30-day trial is here, pricing from $379.

• Windows Command-Line Kung Fu with WMIC - How to use this little-known utility to help track down malware.
• The Skinny On Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services - CRN takes a look at Microsoft's new hosted e-mail offering and finds it wanting in value.

• AJAX Impact - News site for all things AJAX. It'd be nice if they offered RSS feeds.
• MSDN Enhanced Search - Now the lab rats at MSDN have rolled out a search interface just for the MSDN blogs.

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