The Daily Grind 888 by Mike Gunderloy Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Offline today, celebrating seven years of marriage. See y'all tomorrow!

• Gliffy - All of the desktop software in the world continues to migrate to Web versions; here's a sort of simplified Visio clone, now in open public beta, with subscription pricing to come later.
• ReSharper 2.0 - JetBrains' long-awaited refactoring and coding assistance tool for VS2005 is now officially released. 30-day trial download is here, pricing from $199.
• MBR BootFX - Open source .NET application Framework with DAL, ORM, Web services, logging, desktop and web support, and other goodies, licensed under MPL.
• SQLPrompt - IntelliSense and other features for SQL Server, from the good folks at Red Gate. Free until September 1.
• Full Convert - Database conversion tool that outputs MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Access, or Firebird from a variety of input formats. Trial download is here, pricing from $129.
• FR - A text find and replace console application with options specifically tuned for Visual Studio projects  (via Programmers Heaven)
• trx2html - Rido is working on a tool to convert VSTS TestRun reports into HTML reports, and is looking for beta testers.
• Script# Prototype - Nikhil Kothari has been working on a C# to JavaScript compiler, and you can download the raw version to try out if you like.
• goCRM product release - A new client-server CRM product for the SME market. You can download a trial copy or get a single-user key for free.

• Computer will try to adjust to your moods - Mood computer, meet mood ring.

• FAQ - Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 2.0 - Good rundown on this new feature of ASP.NET 2.0, which lets you automate keeping an eye on your ASP.NET applications.

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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.