The Daily Grind 1009 by Mike Gunderloy Wednesday, November 8, 2006

This continues to be the week for new software releases.

• Visokio Omniscope - Tool for graphical and map-based visualization of data from spreadsheets and databases. Download here, free for small datasets, contact them for licensing info.
• Continuent.org - An interlocking set of open source projects based on JDBC connectivity to allow high availability and scalability for databases including SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2.
• Spices.Net 5.1 - New version of 9rays' suite of obfuscation, decompilation, and related .NET tools, with full 64-bit and MSBuild support. Download here, pricing from $1192.95.
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 extensions - This is the ticket if you want to extend WSS with VS.
• Windows Sysinternals - The new home (on TechNet) of all the Sysinternals stuff. Here's some info on what's new.
• Microsoft.com Tagspace Beta - Microsoft plays "me too" again with their own social bookmarking/tagging service.
• blogmailr - Free service to publish from your e-mail to your MetablogAPI-enabled blog.
• SQL Server Community Technology Preview Program - There's a new SQL Server 2005 service pack in the works.
• Robotics Studio November 2006 CTP - Don't know when this one will release but it keeps pumping out CTPs on a regular basis too.
• Windows SDK .NET Framework 3.0 Samples - A batch of code covering the new APIs.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies - Community Technology Preview (CTP) November 2006 - This mouthful lets you show SQL Server reports on SharePoint pages.

• Ready for a New Day - New Microsoft portal page to get you all the Visual Studio tools for working with Office 2007, WinFX, and ASP.NET AJAX.
• Jumpstart Toolkit - All sorts of goodies to help get your applications ready for Vista.
• Introducing SourceGear Fortress - The SourceGear folks are planning an ALM solution for the SMB/"Professional" market.
• Team Direction Project Plus 2007 Beta - a 2 minute review: Part 1 - Arno Nel has lots of screenshots.
• Microsoft Virtual Labs Express - 20-minute "what's new" online labs on some Microsoft products.

• Virtual Appliance Marketplace - VMware has enhanced their selection of pre-built VMs with certification and purchasing programs.
• C#->Visual Basic Translator - A work in progress designed to ultimately handle .NET 2.0 syntax.

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