The Daily Grind 1002 by Mike Gunderloy Monday, October 30, 2006

Winter weather just arrived with a thud.

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements - A handful of add-ins that used to be off in the IDE, but are now available for separate download. Source Code Outliner is the one I like the most.
• Visual Studio 2005 SDK - Version 4 November 2006 CTP Available - Now including Sandcastle and better behavior under Vista.
• Direct Access 1.2 - Another release of this universal macro program. Trial download is here, $39.95 to register.
• DataSet Watch 2.0 - Advanced DataSet visualizer for Visual Studio.
• Secure TextBox Updated - Data entry via a textbox on Windows Forms, storage in SecureString.

• 10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time - If you never had to work with any of these systems, count yourself lucky. If you can't think of any equally large flops, count yourself sheltered.
• How To: Enable Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax Betas on an existing site - An update from Jay Kimble.
• Subversion branching quick start - A nice introduction from Ned Batchelder.

• Keeping track of 1,000 RSS feeds - Yeah, I can see how an eidetic memory would help. Tracking 400 or so is any depth is tough enough. (via Jason Haley)
• Sam's Professional .NET List - Book recommendations from Sam Gentile.
• Girls� Love Stories (2006) - Geek humor from Philipp Lenssen

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