The Daily Grind 967 by Mike Gunderloy Monday, September 11, 2006

It was a quieter weekend than usual. Sometimes quiet is good.

• CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Adapaters Beta 2 Now Available - An interesting tweak to ASP.NET moves closer to release.
• TimeSnapper Professional - New and improved version of this program for watching your day's activities and playing back timed screenshots. Trial download is here, pricing from $39.95 (the classic version is still free). More info at secretGeek.
• ValidatorBuddy - XMLSpy plugin to allow easy use of external validators. Download here.
• Beta 2 of the XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack released to Web! - XPS without .NET 3.0.

• Achievement unlocked - A peek inside the Windows shiproom. (via dzone)
• My .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 Install Instructions - Paul Andrew goes over what to install in which order so you can do development with the latest bits.
• What's Different in Expression Web Beta1 - An interesting discussion of design tradeoffs from the Expression team.
• Visual Studio SDK - You can now read the SDK documentation online without registering for the VSIP. (via Allen Denver)
• Writing Your First Avalon Program on Windows Vista RC1 - Sam Gentile supplies instructions for the non-Luddites in the audience.
• Visual Studio 2020 - A mockup (not from Microsoft) of some ideas for an advanced IDE. It's sexy enough, but in 14 years I certainly hope to no longer be writing code by typing into an IDE, no matter how advanced.

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