Earlier I was trying to find out what the major differences are between VS.NET 2005 and the VS.NET 2005 Express Editions are. The best page page I found was this table:

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/productinfo/productline/default.aspx

One interesting to note is that the Express Editions do not have any SCC integration (aka no SourceSafe). That really sucks as that means you won't be able to recover any code if you accidentally delete it (which has happened way too many times that I wish not to remember... ). Well thank goodness for the open source communicaty. Check out my previous post for another SCC that I really like. I use it for my own personal projects.

 

 

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Here are some of my favorite tools I use for development besides VS:


Emeditor Notepad replacement.
FxCop Test for best practices.
NUnit Unit testing .NET code.
Subversion Local source control (similar to CVS).
NDoc API documentation generator.
Reflector .NET Inspect .NET assemblies and decompile .NET IL code.
tcpTrace Proxy to capture TCP traffic.

What do you use?

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Looks like MS is coming out with some new mice again.  Here are some shots of the new mouse.

http://www.activewin.com/articles/2004/5.shtml
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2004/jul04/07-08StarckMouse.asp
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+dresses+up+mice/2100-1001_3-5261241.html?part=rss&tag=5261241&subj=news.1001.5

Now this one looks really funky!

 

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