The Daily Grind 1084 by Mike Gunderloy Thursday, February 22, 2007

Meeting day again! No, wait, that's every day.

• TierDeveloper 5.5 - New release of this .NET application generator. Trial download is here, $1495 to purchase.
• All 40 Application Templates are ready !!! - Arno Nel has the latest on free SharePoint templates from Microsoft.
• Microsoft Network Monitor 3 - The latest round of Microsoft's network protocol analyzer.
• SonicFileFinder 1.8 released - Add-in for easily finding files in large VS2005 solutions.

• DocMounter Help File Builder - Tool for building XML help files separately from the .NET code they refer to.
• Switching Between Unit Test Frameworks - Hopefully you won't need to do this, but it's possible with varying degree of pain. VSTS plays less nicely than others.
• 1001 tools and libraries for .NET - Congrats to Fabrice for reaching this huge milestone with SharpToolbox.

• R.I.P. GotDotNet - Looks like Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on the GotDotNet site. If there's any code out there you want to keep, better grab it.

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