The Daily Grind 1264

by Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, November 1, 2007

On to November!

Jarte - Free word processor based on the WordPad engine.
Color Schemes in SQL 2005 Management Studio - A utility from Tomas Restrepo for porting your VS color schemes over.
TiTaN Code generator - Yes, it's another .NET code generator.

IronRuby Visual Form Designer (preview) - Work being done by the SapphireSteel folks.
Be not afraid of the Visitor, the big, bad Composite, or their little friend Double Dispatch - Pattern advice from Jeremy D. Miller.
Getting started with Reflector Addins - Walkthrough from Jason Haley.

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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET 2.0 newspaper of record.