The Daily Grind 1017

by Mike Gunderloy
Monday, November 20, 2006

Terminal bitrot has set in on my main dev box. This is bad.

Powershell Analyzer - A full IDE wrapped around the new Powershell command line processor. (via Christopher Steen)
TeamLook 1.5 - Outlook integration for Team Foundation Server, now with Outlook 2007 compatibility. Trial download is here, pricing from $99.95. (via Roy Osherove)
User Agent String Utility version 2 - Microsoft makes it possible for IE7 to spoof IE6. (via Greg Duncan)
ResxWriter: Generating .resx files from an Excel spreadsheet - Just what it says. Write the file, press a button, done.
SmartCode-An Open Source Code Generator - Database-driven code generation for .NET.
Gootodo - Online service that lets you forward e-mails to future days. Interesting idea.
PostSharp, a Post-Compiler for the .NET Framework - Tool for post-build transformation of .NET assemblies, allowing you to get into AOP or other interesting scenarios. (via dzone)

Differences between the 2007 Office system and Office 2003 - A useful reference for when you're ready to make the leap, concentrating on features that have been removed or hidden. (via Steve Caravajal)

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