The Daily Grind 1127 by Mike Gunderloy Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Only scattered showers of software today.

• Outlook 2007 or 2003 with Business Contact Manager Add-in: Business Contacts for Pocket PC - I'm not sure how many people use both BCM and Windows Mobile 5.0, but if you're one of them this is for you.
• Office 2007 Ribbon UI for RadControls for...ASP.NET - If you like the ribbon look, there's now a project building on the Telerik controls to bring it to ASP.NET applications.
• ActiveUp.MailSystem 2.0 - .NET components to manage SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and NNTP, with plenty of bells and whistles. Download here, $499 to register.

• The Power of Anonymous Methods in C# - Coding info from Dan Wahlin.

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