The Daily Grind 1086

by Mike Gunderloy
Monday, February 26, 2007

Here's a little pile of software for a Monday morning.

Practisoft PractiLicensing Beta - Internet-based licensing system for .NET applications now looking for beta testers.
Palo 1.5 - Open-source MOLAP data store for Excel.
TimeSnapper 2.3: Extract Text Using Optical Character Recognition - Nice new feature for this utility that takes periodic screenshots to help you remember what you were doing.
Reflector.Review, a lightweight code annotation tool - Take notes while you poke around in code with Lutz Roeder's Reflector utility.
SmartInspect 2.0 - Logging tool for .NET, Java, and Delphi. Trial download is here, $229 per user through March 31.
Introducing FxCopUnit - A framework for integrated FxCop rule testing - Roy Osherove comes up with a way to unit test FxCop rules. Unfortunately the FxCop team says they're breaking this approach in v.next. Roy responds.

:: Smart PropertyGrid.Net 2.1

SPG.Net eliminates the Microsoft PropertyGrid shortcomings and introduces a totally new control rewritten from scratch. With this component you can:

Build its content dynamically (using reflection or not) with an infinite number of subcategories like in a tree,
Use lots of inplace controls like updown buttons, trackbars, progress bars, radio buttons, checkboxes, color pickers and more,
Customize the appearance of each property and the global look of the grid,
Reuse your existing TypeConverter, UITypeEditor and ICustomTypeDescriptor classes,
Add TAB navigation, custom sorting, value validation, hyperlinks, property enumerators, searching, tooltips, ellipsis, ...
Now supports .Net 1.1 and 2.0.

All this and a lot more is just one click away at www.visualhint.com.

And don't forget the free PropertyGrid for MFC!!

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

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