Book Update: 100% Final Draft!

Whoof!  We’ve got 100% of our chapters for The Book through the final edits and delivered to our editor at O’Reilly.

Last count for tools: 176.  Absolutely no clue what the final page count will be, but it will almost certainly be over 1100 pages, perhaps even over 1200.  A rough bit of work in Cygwin tells me we had 842 figures between gif, jpg, bmp, and png files.  Not all of those made the cut, but the vast majority did.  There’s also one token SVG file in there, just because we weren’t difficult enough with everything else.

The final list of tools, in absolutely no sensible order, is shown below.  I’ve no clue if this will render properly by the time it makes it through BlogJet, Blogger.com’s stylesheets, and whatever agent you’re using to view this post with.  Hopefully so. 

XSD.exe	Krypton Toolkit	Community Server
WSCF	ControlSpy	Subtext
Codus	Visual Studio Express Editions	Flexwiki
MyGeneration	SharpDevelop	XP Remote Assistance
Peli's Reflector Addins	MonoDevelop	Skype
SourceMonitor	SnippetCompiler	GAIM
CR_Metrics	Notepad2	TFS Admin Tool
Ndepend	Regulator	NHibernate
Vil	Regulazy	Npersist
FxCop	FileMon	ObjectMapper
Nprof	TCPView	Castle ActiveRecord
SVN 1-Click Setup	RegMon	CoolCommands
TortuiseCVS	Process Explorer	ClassDesigner PowerToy
TortuiseSVN	ClrSpy	VSFileFinder
AnknSVN	ClrProfiler	PINVOKE.NET
SourceSafe Binding Remover	ClrDump	HTML/ASP.NET Spell Checker
WinMerge	Managed Stack Explorer	VSWindowManager
Atlas	Fiddler	CopySourceAsHTML
Anthem.NET	Ping Plotter	CSSPropertiesWindow
AJAX.NET Professional	LogParser	Web Application Project
UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite	Regex Kit Visualizers	VSContentInstaller PowerToys
BusyBoxDotNet	NProf	NxBRE
CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters	ASP.NET Cache	Log4Net
FreeTextBox	Conchango XML Visualizer	Lucene.NET
WebChart	Expression Graphic Designer	LibCheck
RSSToolKit	Expression Interaction Designer	NetSpell
Nunit	XamlPad	Nplot
Nunit Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005	Service Configuration Editor	nSort
MbUnit	Service Trace Viewer	Relfector.Diff
Zanebug	WinFX Development Tools	RSS.NET
Fitnesse	ILDASM	SharpZipLib
Ncover	Reflector	ExcelXMLWriter
nCoverExplorer	Dotnet IL Editor	iTextSharp
TestDriven.NET	Dotfuscator	GhostDoc
NMock2	Threat Analysis and Modeling Tool	CR_Documentor
Rhino.Mocks	Bouncy Castle	Ndoc
NUnitForms	XSS Library	PDFCreator
Ntime	PrivBar	skmFaqs
Selenium	MakeMeAdmin.cmd	BugTracker.NET
Watir	nxslt2	CodeTrack
DotNetNuke	eXML	Bugzilla
PicoContainer.NET	Xinclude.NET	Trac
Mono	Xpointer.NET	SlickRun
Rotor	XML Diff and Patch	ZoomIt
Castle MonoRail	EXSLT.NET	Magnifixer
Castle Windsor Container	XSDObjectGenerator	Less MSIerables
Enterprise Library	ConnectionStrings.com	FileZilla
OpenNETCF	SQL Connection String Builder	CommandPromptHere
Nant	SQLite Administrator	Cropper
MSBuild	Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET	ColorMania
MSBee	Oracle SQL Developer	PowerShell
MSBuild Community Tasks	Web Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer	PowerShellIDE
MSBuild Sidekick	Web Developer Extension for Firefox	TaskSwitcherXP
CruiseControl.NET	Web Developer Helper	SyncToy
CI Factory	Drip	Unlocker
Unleash IT	DOM Helper	Cygwin
Web Deployment Projects	W3C Markup Validation Service
WiX	WebXACT
XP Common Controls	HTML Tidy
DockPanel Suite	Basecamp

So there you have it.  We’re done with the vast majority of the work.  We’ve still got copyedits to handle, but James tells me that goes much quicker.

Many thanks to the folks who contributed articles to the book.  Many thanks to the reviewers.  Many thanks to Ralph Davis who was our copy editor and did a tremendous job of polishing up our work.

Most of all, thanks a bunch to the people who were passionate and smart enough to create all these tools.

That’s all for now.  I’m going to spend the evening with my family who hasn’t seen much of me for the last two months as James and I have crushed to finish this thing.