.NET Programming Links

Here is a collection of .NET links that I have collected. Many of these are links I specifically mention in the two-day .net training class and Microsoft ADS (Architecture Design Session) that I hold. These are all links that I have personally used, or happen to think are exceptionally cool.

If you find these links to be helpful, be sure to drop me a note in my guestbook.

Links last reviewed on February 26, 2005. (Some of it is quite a bit out of date now. New links have been posted to my Blog - see link at the top menu)

Contents

Good Mailing Lists
Useful Search Sites
.NET and Other Resource Sites
Specific Articles of Interest
Installation and Deployment
Standards and Specifications
Whidbey Information
Examples and Components
Additional Tools and Interesting Stuff
.Net Managed Data Providers
.Net Ports to Other Platforms and Enhancements/Research/Languages

Links

Good Mailing Lists
VISBAS-L	http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/visbas-l.html
Developmentor .Net Lists	http://discuss.develop.com/

Useful Search Sites
CodeHound - Programmer's Search Engine	http://www.CodeHound.com
Google Newsgroup Search	http://www.deja.com/

.NET and Other Resource Sites
GotDotNet.com	http://www.GotDotNet.com
WindowsForms.Net	http://www.windowsforms.net/Default.aspx
Asp.Net	http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx
Microsoft Patterns and Practices	http://www.microsoft.com/resources/practices
C#.net	http://www.csharp.net
CodeProject C# Site	http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/
.NET Spider	http://www.dotnetspider.com
IIS FAQs	http://www.iisfaq.com/
UDDI Resources	http://www.uddi.org/solutions.html
Microsoft VS.Net Home	http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
.Net Hosting	http://www.brinkster.com
OpenWave SDK (Phone Emulator)	http://www.openwave.com/products/developer_products/
.NET Rocks Talk Show	http://www.dotnetrocks.com/
A site with tons of connection strings (nice!)	http://www.connectionstrings.com
MSDN TV	http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/

Specific Articles of Interest
Older Web Services vs. Remoting Performance Comparison	http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/bdadotnetarch14.asp
Death of the Browser - Why you should use Windows Forms	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet10142001.asp
Gang of Four (GoF) Patterns for .Net/C#	http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx
Article on Creating HttpHandlers and HttpModules in .Net	http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020417.htm

Installation and Deployment
.NET Framework Bootstrap Installer	http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=66350891-D15B-446B-BD69-F7F849224A00&displaylang=en
Windows Updater Application Block	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/updater.asp?frame=true
How to Distribute Config Files to Smart Clients (Windows Forms Apps) via the Web	http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/27/ztd.html
Windows Forms Deployment Options	http://www.windowsforms.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=3&tabid=40#Deployment

Standards and Specifications
C# ECMA Spec	http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/ECMA-334.HTM
C# 2.0 Spec	http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/language/default.aspx
WSDL Spec	http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
For programming standards and naming conventions, see the link on the left menu.

Whidbey (VS .NET 2005) Information
MSDN Whidbey Site (VS .NET 2005)	http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/whidbey/default.aspx
The Whidbey Chronicles - IDE Enhancements for C# Developers	http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040219CSHARPDF/manifest.xml
ASP.NET 2.0	http://www.asp.net/whidbey/

Examples and Components
Terrarium (Better than Pong.Net!) ;-)	http://www.gotdotnet.com/terrarium/whatis/
Google Web Service	http://www.google.com/apis/
Microsoft Exception Handling Application Block	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/emab-rm.asp
VS.Net Power Toys and other Stuff	http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide/

Additional Tools, Test-Driven Development, and Interesting Stuff
NUnit Unit Testing Framework	http://www.nunit.org/
XML Acceleration Appliance (Good for Web Services)	http://www.datapower.com/

.NET Managed Data Providers
CoreLab MySQL Direct Managed Provider	http://crlab.com/mysqlnet/
MySqlNet MySQL and Postgres Managed Provider	http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlnet/
CoreLab Oracle Direct Managed Provider	http://crlab.com/oranet/
Corelab Postgres Direct Managed Provider	http://crlab.com/pgsqlnet/
Microsoft Oracle Managed Provider	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4F55D429-17DC-45EA-BFB3-076D1C052524&displaylang=en
Oracle ODP Managed Provider	http://otn.oracle.com/tech/windows/odpnet/content.html

.NET Ports to Other Platforms and Enhancements/Research/Languages
Mono on Linux	http://www.go-mono.com/
Microsoft Shared Source CLI - Rotor (Free BSD, OS X, Win XP)	http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/sscli
On the Death of Microsoft Shared Source CLI Community Site	http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/archives/000525.html
Old Generics Support in C# (SSCLI Gyro)	http://research.microsoft.com/projects/clrgen/
Microsoft F#	http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.aspx