The Daily Grind 907

by Mike Gunderloy
Monday, June 19, 2006

24 billable hours in one weekend - profitable but nuts.

CodeRush and Refactor! Pro 2.0 released! - Developer Express has seriously improved an already impressive set of Visual Studio add-ins. I'll be reviewing them sometime soon. There are some fresh training videos available too.
ADX Extensions for Microsoft Outlook - A plugin solution that supports .NET controls in versions of Outlook back to Outlook 2000, unlike Microsoft's VSTO which is focused on newer versions only.
2007 Office System Sample: Open XML File Format Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005 - To work with Office 2007 Beta 2. Kevin Boske has some of the backstory.
TFS Bug Snapper - Create Team Foundation Server bug reports directly from screenshots. (via Greg Duncan)
Build Manager.Net - Build automation tool that supports everything from VB5 to VS2K5 and Web projects. Trial download is here, pricing from $295. (via ComponentBlog)
Smart PropertyGrid.Net - Property grid with much more flexible formatting and programming options than the one that Microsoft supplies. Trial download is here, pricing from $159. (via ComponentBlog)

ADO.NET Technical Preview - Entity Data Model (June 2006) and The ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview (June 2006) - Perhaps this time the documents won't mysteriously vanish. Oren Eini has an early reaction and isn't too impressed.
15 Exercises to Know a Programming Language, Part1, Part 2, Part 3 - A rigorous program from Larry O'Brien.
Awesome Visual Studio Usability Tip - If you're constantly chasing the toolbox around as you switch in and out of form design mode, you want to read this one.
Best Practices for Creating DLLs - I hope I never need to know this stuff, but it's still fun to know about it, in a geeky sort of way. (via Larry Osterman)

Thoughts on a Transition - Like every other tech pundit, I was required to write a piece on Friday about Bill Gates' job change.

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