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An introduction to the MSBuild technology.

Just ran across the App Verifier that now supports Windows Mobile 5

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d275348a-d937-4d88-ae25-28702c78748d&displaylang=en

If you aren't familiar the Application Verifier tool assesses the stability of an application and detects common programming mistakes. The tool can detect and pinpoint memory leaks, handle leaks, and leaks in graphics device interface (GDI) objects.

Novalys announces Visual Guard, a new DotNet product. With Visual Guard, you can create and manage user profiles and permissions. You can determine precisely what each user can do, see and modify.The application is automatically adjusted to the user connected. You do not need to modify any code in the application. Even a non-technical person can be the Visual Guard administrator (and free the tech team from it).

XSD.EXE is an XML Schema Definition tool that generates XML schema or common language runtime classes from XDR, XML, and XSD files, or from classes in a runtime assembly.

SSWI is a Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6 Web Interface. It provides remote access to all the features of Visual Source Safe without the need to install software on the end user PC. SSWI is a fully web based system, that will work on any PC or MAC (OSX). SSWI works with VSS 6 and 2005, and includes IDE intergration for VB6, Visual Studio 2002, 2003 and 2005 plus many more popular IDE's

Many times you need to import data from different databases into your SQL Server database. If you do not have SQL Server Enterprise manager or similar tools then it becomes very tedious to import such data. This is especially true when you are working with SQL Server Express Edition or MSDE. BinaryIntellect Bulk Copy Tool allows you to import data from SQL Server, Access, Oracle and ODBC databases into your SQL Server database. Developed using new ADO.NET 2.0 features the tool is very easy to use and FREE.

YourKit, LLC, known technology leader in Java profiler world, starts Early Access Program of its new .NET profiler. YourKit .NET Profiler 1.0 will be the first YourKit solution for .NET platform. The first version will support memory profiling as well as support CLR telemetry. Further versions will add CPU profiling support, as well as other memory profiling capabilities. Read more about features and dowload the software at http://www.yourkit.com/dotnet/

Lattice.DataMapper is a tool that maps .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database using external XML configuration and mapping files. Features included object pre-fetch (one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many), objects cache, batch job, distributed transaction.

Access-to-MySQL, one of the oldest tools to migrate Microsoft Access databases to MySQL server, has been updated. New version of the software converts relationships between tables.

ComponentOne today released ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2005 v2. This new version provides more support for tools that Help Authors are currently using by adding integration to Macromedia Dreamweaver and a RoboHelp Word Project Converter. These features build upon existing Microsoft FrontPage integration and the RoboHelp HTML Project Converter.