A Brief Overview of Visual Studio 2005 on 64-Bit   24 Jun 2005 00:07 GMT
Larry Sullivan gives a brief overview of Visual Studio 2005 on 64-bit with an eye to what the CLR is doing to preserve your investment in managed code when you move to the .NET Framework and Visual Studio on a 64-bit processor.
Source: MSDN

Test-Driven Development in .NET   23 Jun 2005 23:04 GMT
An article presenting benefits and techniques for using test-driven development in .NET.
Source: .NET Monster

Component to access databases in the .NET environment   23 Jun 2005 19:46 GMT
An extremely flexible and easy-to-use library that retrieves data in XML format, supports simple parameterized queries, stored procedures, and transactions. It can also be used as a web service.
Source: .NET Monster

Exposing .NET Components to COM   23 Jun 2005 19:17 GMT
A method of calling .NET functions from a COM enabled non .NET environment through a COM callable wrapper.
Source: .NET Monster

Use Reflection to Validate Assembly References—Before Your Customers Do   23 Jun 2005 19:09 GMT
Developers are familiar with reflection as a way to create object instances, and discover and call object properties and methods, but reflection's usefulness extends even further—you can also use it to create a diagnostic tool to discover and validate dependencies for deployed code, and to report missing dependencies.
Source: DevX

Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents   23 Jun 2005 14:10 GMT
This article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents using the .NET Framework.
Source: .NET Monster

Build this IF Function Parser to Simplify Debugging Excel Formulas   22 Jun 2005 18:31 GMT
If you're tired of trying to decipher long Excel IF formulas displayed in a single line of code, try this convenient Formula Formatter add-in that displays such formulas neatly indented in a popup window.
Source: DevX

What's New in Visual Basic 2005?   22 Jun 2005 04:53 GMT
Going forward, Microsoft will make a big push to migrate Visual Basic 6 developers to Visual Studio 2005. The Visual Basic team has addressed many of the areas that caused VB6 developers to hold on to their old code base.
Source: DevX

Building .NET Projects with the Correct References   22 Jun 2005 04:07 GMT
This tip explains how to work with the ReferencePath property in your VB.NET and C# projects.
Source: DevX

Uploading Larger Files   22 Jun 2005 03:15 GMT
To upload larger files, you have to configure the web.config httpRuntime tag's maxRequestLength property.
Source: DevX