The Daily Grind 1129

by Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, April 26, 2007

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SQL Builder for Microsoft SQL Server - A basic (and free) GUI query builder implemented in C#.
Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 Evaluation - Now in open beta.

IIS 7 Go Live - If you do get into the Longhorn betas, you can put IIS 7 into production.
A Complete URL Rewriting Solution for ASP.NET 2.0 - A regex-based solution (via Steve Schofield)
Implementing SmartCard Authentication with ASP.NET - Looks like a rather thorough exposition (via DotNetKicks)

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