The Daily Grind 959 by Mike Gunderloy Wednesday, August 30, 2006

We seem to be having our first little taste of fall weather out here.

• Help Generator 3.0 - Automatic HTML Help generation tool for Access, VB6, and .NET applications. Trial download is here, $199 to purchase.
• Axure RP Pro 4.2 - This prototyping  and wireframe design tool adds flow diagrams in this release. Trial download is here, pricing from $589.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition Access Database Synchronizer - Use ActiveSync to synchronize Access and SQL Server Everywhere databases. More details here.
• ASP.NET ActionPack 1.0.1 Released - This is starting to to be "Rails for ASP.NET." One of these days I'm going to have to take a look.
• Not Used Analysis - A IL code analysis tool for looking for types, methods, and fields that are not used - Help in cleaning up those crusty old .NET projects. (via Steve Pietrek)

• The Road to Build Enlightenment - Jason Zankey from Zutubi talks about how to make a better build system. (via dzone)
• RSS in .NET Made Easy with XML Serialization - Scott Van Vliet comes up with yet another way to handle RSS in .NET.

• WPF Conversion Contest - Microsoft is giving away some Dell laptops as prizes for the best converters from various 2D and 3D graphics file formats to WPF/XAML. On the one hand, those are reasonably serious prizes. On the other hand, if they get a working converter out of the deal, that's pretty darned cheap compared to what it would actually cost them to code one in-house.
• FeedsForMe.com - Search engine for finding RSS feeds.

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