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The Daily Grind 722

By Mike Gunderloy
Friday, September 30, 2005

With 1500 MVPs in Redmond under NDA, activity in the blogosphere is down a bit.

Software

InstantForum.NET 4.1 - This excellent forum software is now offering AJAX features for more responsiveness. Pricing from $119.
Introducing a general purpose server - Multithreaded general-purpose Java/.NET application server.
ViEmu 1.2 - New version of the vi/vim editor add-in for Visual Studio .NET that I reviewed here.
NEO Free 3.1 - The Nelson Email Organizer folks have added a free version to their lineup, for those who find their Outlook is getting out of control but don't want to invest in an addon solution.

Evaluating Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2005 RTM - Database mirroring isn't going to be an official supported part of the SQL Server 2005 release, but it turns out there's a trace flag to let you turn it on if you want to test it.
Unit Testing Serialization and other XML formats - James Higgs offers a tip and some code for unit testing the format of XML to see that it's what you were really expecting.

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Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.