The Daily Grind 1018 by Mike Gunderloy Tuesday, November 21, 2006

I'm seeing katamaris in my sleep now.

• MetaEdit+ 4.5 - New version of this customizable modeling and code generation environment for building domain specific modeling languages.
• Visustin v4 - This flowchart generator now supports VS2005, can do UML style output, computes metrics and more. Trial download is here, pricing from $299.
• RapidSpell Desktop v3.7.0 .NET - As-you-type spell checker for WinForms applications. 30-day trial is here, pricing from $299. (via Programmers Heaven)
• Work Item Moving Tool is back! - A helper for those of you running Team Foundation Server.
• Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V1.5 - Upgraded protection for your ASP.NET sites. More information here.
• Sitefinity 3.0 Beta 2 - Second beta release of the new version of Telerik's .NET-based CMS product.
• 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS - Extra functionality for Office 2007. Be interesting to see whether XPS gets any traction.
• Qlockwork - This automatic time-tracking software fills in an Outlook calendar for you as you use various applications. 30-day trial is here, buy for $49.95.

• The Power of Textmate on Windows  - The e text editor gets compatibility with a major player in Mac text editing.
• Yes, there is an Office 2007 'kill switch' - Thanks to "Office Genuine Advantage," Microsoft has one more way to make life lousy for paying customers. Microsoft denies everything. On the whole, I give this one to Microsoft so far - what's reported doesn't appear to be any worse than activation in Office 2003 (which has certainly caused me its own share of pain already).
• 5 Tips for Getting Starting with MSBuild for CruiseControl - Patrick Altman has some suggestions on integrating these parts of your build process.

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