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If you are an Apache user you are familiar with the mod_rewrite extension and its URL manipulation capabilities. Well, IIS has lacked URL rewriting capabilities for many years until now. IIS 7.0 includes the Redirect Engine module, nice.

What do you do if you want an alternative to the IIS 7.0 offering? Well, I use 3rd party extensions to provide the URL rewriting function. There are many rewriting extensions available, including URL Rewriter from Managed Fusion.

Managed Fusion released version 1.3.1 of their URL manipulation engine on February 1, 2008. Options, options, options. Always nice to have technology options available to us and this is no different. The URL Rewriter works great!

I stumbled on a spell check add-in for Visual Studio today and immediately thought of a spelling challenged consultant. The consultant transitioned off the project one year ago, but I am still finding his spelling errors in the source code.

I have not downloaded or used the spell checker, but it appears to spell check text in ASP.NET and HTML files. It supports a standard ignore list and adding custom words to an active Office custom dictionary.

The updated version supports text verification for ASP.NET and HTML comments, plus C++, CSS, and VB style comments. It is available for both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008.