The Daily Grind 1125 by Mike Gunderloy Friday, April 20, 2007

Those of you chasing the cutting edge of Visual Studio have a busy weekend ahead.

• Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1 - The next Visual Studio release has advanced to beta status. Here's the ship announcement.
• Visual Studio Code Name 'Orcas' Express Editions - Still CTPs as I write this, but Beta 1 drops should be along shortly.
• Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1 Team Suite (Virtual PC version) - And here's the big monster version.
• Visual Studio Project MRU List Editor II - Small tool to clean up the mess in any version of Visual Studio.
• New Release of Notepad2 - Updated (again) with Ruby Support - Scott Hanselman hacks Ruby highlighting into the latest Notepad2 release.
• DotNetBar 6.6 Released - Including two new controls.
• TouchCursor - Software to turn your home row keys into cursor keys for faster touch typing. 30-day trial here, purchase for $20.

• Certified Assemblies - A discussion of the difference between strong signed assemblies and publisher certified assemblies, and why it matters.
• Q1 secrets revealed! - News about Telerik's April release plans.

• Tagspace, Meet Claimspace - Korby Parnell talks about another chunk of social software that Microsoft will be shipping soon.

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