The Daily Grind 960 by Mike Gunderloy Thursday, August 31, 2006

Stargazing with a six-year-old...priceless.

• TestDriven.NET 2.0.1761 - RC1 - Jamie Cansdale is nearing release of his zero friction unit testing add-in for VS2005.
• C# List Control Utility - A helper class to make it easier to work with ASP.NET list controls. (via DotNetKicks)
• Hawkeye - "The .Net Runtime Object Editor" - A bit like Spy++ for .NET apps; drag it around and investigate what's going on in any .NET code, with bonus links to opening the source code in Reflector. And check out the Visual Studio Properties Extender, which uses Hawkeye to inject code for a search box into the Visual Studio Properties editor window.
• Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express (Beta) - I remain fairly skeptical about Joe Programmer writing anything compelling for the XBox in his spare time, but it won't cost him anything to try.

• Microsoft should ship SubSonic (formerly called ActionPack) with Atlas - The buzz on the newly-renamed SubSonic is ratcheting up pretty quickly.
• Creating a Custom .Net Profiler - I can't say I've ever actually wanted to create a profiler, but if I did this would be a good introduction.
• APIFinder - Want some APIs? Have some APIs. Web services, graphics, programming...all sorts of searchable content here.

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