The Daily Grind 904 by Mike Gunderloy Wednesday, June 14, 2006

This is turning out to be the rainiest spring I can remember here.

• Get the CTP - Download Available -- TechEd Release  - Of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, that is. Just remember, this is way early prerelease bits of something that will cost you substantial money if you want the final code.
• Ultra Recall 2.0 - New version of this PIM/Knowledge/Document management application can run from a USB key, has better searching, more flexible layouts, folder synching, and more. Trial download is here, pricing from $39.
• Ecora Documentor - Free utility for documenting the configuration of a host of server software from IIS and Exchange to Active Directory and SQL Server (as well as stuff on Unix, Linux, and Netware networks). This is an entry-level version of Ecora's commercial Reporter and Enterprise Auditor products.
• SQL mobile manager version 2.3 - Administer and manage SQL Server from Windows Mobile devices. $795 per SQL Server instance.
• WCF RSS Toolkit - RSS generation is fast becoming the "hello world" of our generation.
• The HTML Report Engine - Free library to turn DataSets into decent-looking reports.
• rendr 2 - Interactive tool that lets you type in (or paste in) HTML and CSS and shows you right in front of what the results are. Great for debugging when you don't know what the heck you're doing.
• Xceed has added some new security capabilities to both Xceed FTP for .NET and Xceed Zip for .NET, with HTTP proxy server support and support for SSL on their FileSystem interface.
• iPrioritize - Free online task manager with RSS feeds and company-level rollups.

• WCF Downloads - A bunch of demo code from Juval Lowy, who knows what he's doing. (Via Robert Hurlbut)
• New and Notable 100! The Big 100! - Congrats to Sam Gentile for his 100th roundup of doings in the .NET universe. If you enjoy The Daily Grind, you really ought to be subscribing to New and Notable as well; Sam manages to scoop me on cutting-edge Framework matters quite frequently.
• Visual Studio Team System Resource List - A big big list from Adamga. This ought to be your first stop if you're looking for VSTS info.

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