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FREE XDN Professional for .NET Bloggers during May 2004
Suffering from a fit of generosity, Mike Schinkel, president of Xtras.Net, has made an offer on his personal blog of a free XDN Professional membership (http://www.xtras.net/xdn) during the month of May 2004 foranyone that blogs about .NET frequently. If you are a .NET blogger, see Mike's post for how to get your free XDN membership.
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[XML] XMLPatterns.com
I recently came across an oustanding reference site on design patterns for creating good XML. The site is XMLPatterns.com. The content has already been very helpful to me and I recommend this as a useful reference link.
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[Tools] QuickGraph
The MbUnit Testing Framework uses QuickGraph, a generic .NET graph library. It appears that QuickGraph is now bundled with MbUnit. You can find some additional information about it in the original CodeProject article, QuickGraph: A 100% C# graph library with Graphviz Support, and in the .NET Wiki article, QuickGraph Generic Graph Library for .NET. I think QuickGraph has usefulness beyond its presence in MbUnit, so I am posting a little about it here.
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[Tools] MbUnit, "an evolutive Unit Test Framework for .Net"
MbUnit is an alternative Unit Test Framework for .Net that includes some evolutions from NUnit and adds some additional features and fixtures. Specifically, some of the new features add benchmarking, performance testing, and "Model-based Testing." MbUnit is the new name for NPerf and represents a significant evolution from that code base. It seems this project had another intermediate name, "GUnit." MbUnit is an ongoing Open Source project and the team is looking for Algorithm writers, GUI designers, Test writers, and Documentation freaks.
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[Tools] More on PDF: iTextSharp
As mentioned in the comments to "[Tools] PDFCreator," iTextSharp is great for software developers who want to create Adobe Acrobat PDF files on the fly in .NET code. For downloads, etc., please see the iTextSharp SourceForge Project Summary Page. Please note that PDFCreator is *not* a .NET class library; it is a standalone PDF creating utility that installs on your machine as a printer. You simply print to it. Use iTextSharp, or something like it, if you want to generate PDF from code.
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[Tools] PDFCreator
Yesterday, I found a cool new tool you might find useful. PDFCreator is an Open Source (GPL) tool to easily create PDF files. I have wished for such a free tool for quite some time, now. While I do not normally need the full power of Adobe Acrobat, it is nice to be able to easily create PDF files while browsing or working in my normal applications. PDFCreator installs to work like a printer, so it is very easy to print up a PDF from whatever document you are in at the moment. You can even print PDFs from your web browser. Software developers may find it handy to output syntax-highlighted code directly from VisualStudio.NET (or whatever favorite editors you use) to a PDF file. You can also combine multiple documents into one PDF.
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[Tools] wxWindows Name Change to wxWidgets
After being "approached" by Microsoft, the current "hosts" for the wxWindows open source C++ GUI framework are changing its name to wxWidgets. See the Name Change Page for details. Julian Smart and Robin Dunn will cease using the name wxWindows by August 2004.
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[Graphics] Is Blender Insufficiently Appreciated?
This is a bit of a plug for Blender, a fantastic Open Source project that is perhaps the most under-appreciated project on the net. What is Blender? Well, it is just "the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X."