The Daily Grind 999 by Mike Gunderloy Wednesday, October 25, 2006

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• CA Releases Wily Introscope for Microsoft .NET - High-end production application monitoring tool ported from the J2EE universe.
• CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters Beta 3 Now Available - In case CSS + ASP.NET floats your boat.
• FinalBuilder 5.0 - New release of this topnotch graphical build automation tool. Here's the what's new list, trial download is here, pricing from $379.
• Extreme Optimization Numerical Libraries for .NET, version 2.0 - Math/vector/matrix/stats library for .NET 2.0. Trial download is here, pricing from $999.
• Altova XML Suite Version 2007 - Lots of new stuff here as Altova does their annual rollout of upgrades. XMLSpy gets a new WSDL editor  and XPath analyzer plus tighter Visual Studio integration, MapForce can map to and from Web services, StyleVision gets per-output type conditions, and more.
• IntegralUI TreeView 1.1 for .NET - Now with XML serialization for treeview appearance and contents. Trial download is here, pricing from $149.
• Windows Desktop Search 3.0 for Windows XP and for Windows Server 2003 - The latest round of local index and search technology from Microsoft.

• Whitepaper summarizing the Office Open XML standard - At 14 pages, this is the crib notes to the phone book sized standard.
• Accessing the Windows RSS Platform with C# - Source code from Ryan Farley.
• Pragmatic Architecture: Layering - Good discussion from Ted Neward. There may not be a whole lot to learn here if you've been around the block enough times, but most developers haven't.

• Recommended Reading List - From Peter Provost in the patterns & practices Group. Covers agile development, TDD, architecture, .NET, C#, and related topics.

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