The Daily Grind 1107

by Mike Gunderloy
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

I'll be back to full-time freelancing on Monday.

TeamPlain Web Access for Team System - Now free, thanks to Microsoft's acquisition of devBiz.
Word 2003 XML Viewer Control v1.0 released - Render Word 2003 XML in IE or Firefox.
PDFKit.NET 2.0 - Managed component for reading and manipulating PDF files. $899 to license.
IPToolbox: A VS2005-like Toolbox - Free toolbox control with the latest look.
ASP.NET AJAX: Client-side event viewer - A tool to gain a deeper understanding of what's going on.

Visual Studio Team System Future Releases - "Orcas" appears to be on track to ship this year. That's insane. (via Mary Jo Foley)
Welcome to the WPF Schedule Beta Program - ComponentOne is starting to beta-test their WPF components.

Google Summer of Code: Participating Organizations - There sure are a lot of them.

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