The Daily Grind 916

by Mike Gunderloy
Friday, June 30, 2006

This has been a crazy week for me, thanks to the end of the fiscal year. Watch for more content next week!

Bring Windows Desktop Search Into Visual Studio With Our Cool Add-In - Could be useful, certainly a cute bit of plumbing.
Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.NET - Alpha release of a new tool from Microsoft.
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 - Get the new FireFox-y look for Windows XP or Windows 2003.
Microsoft Smart Devices Remote Tools Framework Powertoy 1.0 - Scaffolding to help build tools for the Windows CE platform.

Microsoft Lays Off 214 in U.S. Sales - This one will probably get a lot of discussion, but I'm not sure a layoff of 214 out of 70K is all that significant. Unless you're one of the 214, of course.
Microsoft Delays Office 2007 Release - I've said it before: don't stake your company on the exact date of a Microsoft product launch.

SharePoint Community Kit - Just in case you're having trouble parsing that, it's a template for building community sites hosted on SharePoint. The project itself lives on CodePlex.
SharePointKicks.com - Community linking site for all things SharePoint.

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