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The Daily Grind 890
by Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, May 25, 2006
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This week's avalanche of new software continues.
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Xceed Zip for .NET 3.1
- New version of this compression library adds AES encryption compatability
with WinZip 9 and 10. Trial download is
here, pricing from $299.95.
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Xceed Grid
for .NET 3.1 - New version adds fixed column support. Trial download
here, pricing from $399.95.
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Document! X 5
- Documentation tool for .NET projects, VB projects, COM type libraries,
Access, SQL Server, or Oracle databases, XSD and XML schemas. The new
version includes VS2005/.NET 2 support, new templates, new content authoring
tools, IDE improvements, and more. Evaluation download is
here, pricing from £299.00.
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Agile Messenger
- Instant Messenger client for mobile phones supporting MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and
ICQ. Free beta downloads are
here.
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JetBrains
dotTrace Profiler 2.0 Early Access Program (EAP) - 2.0 is adding memory
profiling, VS integration, snapshot comparison. I reviewed version 1.1
here.
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NUnit 2.4 Alpha -
For all you early adopters in the test-driven world.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Community Technology Preview –
Development Tools for WinFX - I missed the update to this one when I was
collecting links for yesterday's download-o-rama.
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Windows Live Local Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook (Beta) - Add maps
and directions to meeting requests, among other functionality.
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PCS WebGantt.NET -
Component that produces pure HTML Gantt charts from any .NET solution. Trial
download is
here, pricing from $44.95.
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Download Neo2005 Preview (Entity Object Framework) - Now with .NET 2.0
support. Read about the new features
here.
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HeadsetPresenter 2.0 -
Control PowerPoint with a BlueTooth headset, now including speech
recognition. If I was still on the training circuit I'd probably have this.
Trial download
here, 9.90€ to purchase.
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FireBug 0.4 - This
multi-purpose developer extension for Firefox now includes a JavaScript
debugger. Release notes are
here. (via
Jason
Haley)
Sponsors
OnTime 2006 Bug Tracking Software
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Free Single-User Installations (Not a Trial!)
- $495 for 5-User Small Team Edition
- $995 for 10-User Small Team Edition
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- Use any of 20 built-in reports or use Custom Report Designer
- SCM integration with Vault, VSS, Perforce and SubVersion
- Unlimited custom fields for pick-lists, multi-level lists and HTML fields
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Evolution by ionForge — Free 10 User Evaluation, $195 Competitive Upgrade
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Software development is challenging; your team needs every advantage you can give them. You need to be using the source control system chosen by large AND small development teams around the world — Evolution. |
| Keep your team coordinated |
| Secure local and remote access |
| Real-time status updating |
| Private instant messaging |
| E-mail notification |
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| Keep your projects on track |
| Powerful automated Branching |
| Customizable Workflow modeling |
| Advanced component management |
| Intelligent file locking/sharing |
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An ideal replacement for SourceSafe, import your projects with full history
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Integrates into popular IDE's + Easy to use GUI and command line |
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Xceed Multi-Talented Components |
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Xceed Grid for .NET |
| Introducing Xceed Grid for .NET, trusted and used by Microsoft in the latest version of Office. Designed to efficiently solve all your data grid needs, it also provides built-in reporting and cell editors usable outside the grid. |
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Xceed Zip for .NET |
| Presenting Xceed Zip for .NET, the only multi-talented compression component. Use it to easily handle files, folders and data anywhere: in Zip, Tar and GZip files, on FTP servers, in streams, in memory, and more. |
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Mike Gunderloy is
the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.
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