The Daily Grind 1003 by Mike Gunderloy Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Have a fine Halloween - go read some source code you wrote five years ago for a real scare.

• TestDriven.NET 2.0 - It's released, it's cool, if you're doing unit testing with Visual Studio you need this. The download site is here. Professional license is $95.
• CodeCharge Studio 3.1 - This flexible Web application generator now includes a report interface. Download here, pricing from $139.95.
• Resizeable Form Fields - A 2.0 update to one of my favorite Firefox extensions.
• Report Sharp-Shooter Express - Free version of Perpetuum's .NET reporting product.
• Microsoft Office Accounting Express - (Warning: obnoxious Flash movie and music) Having gotten no traction with their accounting product, the Office team is giving it away. Mary Jo Foley has more details. Or download it here without the cheesy Flash intro.
• Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" - October Community Technology Preview (CTP) - Somehow I just can't bring myself to spend 4GB worth of download time on this, but I'm sure plenty of people will.
• FtpVC - Peer-to-peer FTP-based version control. Trial download is here, licensing from $50 per seat.
• RecordTS - Software to record Terminal Services sessions for later playback or investigation.

• ANTS Profiler - Looking Forward - Red Gate is preparing for a new version of their profiler, running a survey, and giving stuff away in return. Swapping opinions for stuff, sounds like a good deal to me.
• MS Project, MindJet, SharePoint and Groove Interconnected - The TeamDirection folks talk about their new version and what it can do with your tasks.
• Getting Started with SQL Server Service Broker - I would have called it a three-minute guide but the Secret Geek has that term locked up.
• Prime Number Pathology: Fractran - Not sure this most bizarre of programming languages really counts as "information", but it's worth knowing about to improve your geekitude. (via dzone)

• Agile (and related) Books that I like - A list from Mark Levison.
• Custom ASP.NET Search Engine Launched - Courtesy of Google Co-op - Rob Walling adds another specialized .NET search engine to the mix. Soon we will need a meta-search engine. Is anyone else starting to remember Hal Draper's classic "Ms Fnd in a Lbry"? Anyhow, the new engine is at http://www.searchaspnet.net/.
• Programming Feeds and .NET Feeds - Lists skimmed by seeing what's popular over at Bloglines.

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