The Daily Grind 932 by Mike Gunderloy Monday, July 24, 2006

Ah, the promise of a new week. I shall bask in it for a few minutes before the telephone and e-mail bring me back to reality.

• dtSearch 7.30 BETA - This high-end search and indexing component is adding 64-bit and Office 2007 support.
• NDoc 2.0 Alpha - I'm going to link to this because word is going to get around, and many people will want a copy of this upgraded documentor for .NET assemblies, but I would treat it with extreme care: it purports to be an unofficial posting of a private alpha, but there are no docs included. Given that NDoc 1.3 was GPL licensed, distributing it in this state, with no source or license, is almost certainly a license violation as well. (via Michael Primeaux)
• VS.NETcodePrint 2005 - Pretty printed code output add-in for VS2005. Trial download is here, pricing from $59.
• Who would like to test our Continuous Integration server for Team Foundation Server? - Readify has some software about to release into the world.
• RubyCLR - Home of Ruby for the .NET framework. Thought I'd pointed to this before but apparently not.

• SQL Server 2005 Books Online (July 2006) - Another update from Microsoft. You can also grab updated SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases (July 2006) to go with it.
• Upgrade Planning for Windows Vista - Table showing which versions of Windows upgrade to which versions of Vista. Given that I run Windows Server 2003 everywhere, looks like I can continue to ignore Vista.
• Windows Genuine Advantage: An Overview and Screenshot Gallery - Paul Thurrott managed to get bit by WGA. And so the PR mess continues to get worse.
• How to use VMware Player to create your own images - Joe Brockmeier shows how you can muck around in config files to get more out of the free VMware Player than VMware put in. (via Rex Tang)
• SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide - 350 pages of advice on how to handle all sorts of SQL Server upgrade scenarios (via Darien)
• Understanding JSON: the 3 minute lesson - Leon Bambrick tackles another up-and-coming technology.
• Versioning Windows Communication Foundation Services - Craig McMurtry presents a decision tree and concrete advice on dealing with change.

• Useful Phrases in Modern Web Development - Humor from Simon Stewart.
• Coming Zune - What this short film has to do with Microsoft's attempt to compete with the iPod I don't know. It's certainly not typically Microsoft.
• forum track'r - An overlay on the Joel on Software foums that adds additional features, such as easily tracking which threads have new content since your last visit. (via Ellis Web)

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