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Best of the .NET Blogosphere
Are you too busy working to read blogs all day? FTP's editors are surfing the blogosphere to find the best .NET tips, so you don't have to. Check out items about Smart Clients, WinFX, .NET Framework, Windows Forms, and more. [Read More]

300+ VB Classic Articles
If you've chosen to remain with VB6, check out our "VB Classic" collection of more than 300 articles. [Read More]

Featured Articles

Connect Systems With Indigo
Indigo is meant to be the successor to ASMX Web services, Web Services Enhancements (WSE), .NET Remoting, MSMQ, COM+, and Global XML Architecture. [Read More]

Put the 'Smart' in Smart Client
Building apps for multiple platforms requires more consideration than ever before. Find out how to make your apps "smarter." [Read More]

Revisiting Whidbey, Yukon, and Beyond
Peter O'Kelly provides an overview and analysis of the latest developments in Microsoft's server and tools products. [Read More]

Longhorn Redux
Roger Jennings gauges the impact that Longhorn and its back-ported Avalon and Indigo components will have on VS developers. [Read More]

How to Buy Middleware Components
There's more to third-party packages than UI and grid-related tools. Save money and time with middleware components. [Read More]

Convert Between C# & Visual Basic .NET
A good grasp of the differences between VB.NET and C# is necessary to produce equivalent code in both languages. [Read More]

Exploit Yukon's XML Data Type
Delve into SQL Server 2005's new native XML data type. Add XML columns to a table and understand basic XQuery syntax. [Read More]

Partner Sites

Achieving Reliability in a Services World
Find out how to write and test air-tight error-handling code that will make SOA epic failures of essential systems a thing of the past. [View the Webcast]

.Net2TheMax
This online knowledge repository for .NET developers is packed with articles, tips, book listings, and code. And use a free tool, Whidbey Inspector, to explore all the assemblies, namespaces, types, and members in versions 1.1 and 2.0 of the .NET Framework.

C#2TheMax
Discover an abundance of articles, tips, books, and downloads for C# and C++ developers.

VB2TheMax
Delve into blogs and discussion forums and databases full of articles, tips, tools, books, and more.

Career Development, Books, and Training
Taking organized classes and reading books has became part of the developer's constant learning curve as IT demands increase.

Announcements

Visual Studio 2005 Premieres
Visual Studio 2005 includes new language features and development tools, but do you need it? Delve into this analysis of Microsoft's much-anticipated release. [Read More]

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Highlights

Check out our newly updated collection of SQL Server articles.

•	Mine the Power of Data
•	Sorting OLAP Metadata
•	Stored Procedures
•	Yukon: What's Important

Video Connection

Watch the Video
Get a glimpse of Visual Studio 2005 Team System and see how Visual Studio 2005 combines developer productivity enhancements with a focus on integration.

Watch the Video
Microsoft Senior VP Eric Rudder shows off Indigo, Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications.

Watch the Video
S. "Soma" Somasegar, Corporate VP of Microsoft's Developer Division, explains why the .NET Platform has succeeded and what developers can look forward to with Visual Studio .NET 2005.

Special Reports

Security
Security is a top priority in any IT shop, but do you have all your bases covered? Put these essentials into practice when you formulate or update your security strategy.
• Plan Your Defense Strategy
• Serious Perimeter Security
• Manage Patches & Updates

Exchange
Get tips and techniques for easing Exchange implementation and management.
• Debug Distribution Lists
• What to Do When RUS Fails
• OWA Won't Open Messages

Operations Management
Learn to manage your enterprise apps more effectively and efficiently.
• The New Frontier
• Business Service Metrics
• Interop Management

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Get the Code

•	Extend WinForms Apps
•	Yukon's XML Data
•	Create a .NET Agent
•	Localizing .NET Apps

Interviews

Windows Mobile 5.0, More Details
Jim Fawcette talks again with Ya-Qin Zhang, Corporate VP of Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices division, to provide more detail on Microsoft's next-generation mobile OS. [Read More]

New Dev Tools Leverage Office
Jeff Hadfield talks with Microsoft's B.J. Holtgrewe about new features in VS 2005 that make it easier to build applications that take advantage of Office. [Read More]

Opinions

Third-Party Tools Add Zest to .NET

Third-party tools are the lifeblood of the Visual Studio community, says Patrick Meader. [Read More]

Is Open Source Really a Development Model?

Guest columnist Jonathan Zuck, president of the Association for Competitive Technology, says that open source and commercial software have become "development models." [Read More]

Nokia Ups Promise for Corporate Use

Carrier-grade VOIP, new WLAN devices, and PBX integration with Cisco, Avaya, and OnRelay promise to make Nokia a stronger presence in corporate mobile plans, says Jim Fawcette in a recent blog post. [Read More]

Technology Issues are Often Social Issues

Technology has extraordinary potential to change norms and behaviors, says columnist Peter Varhol. [Read More]

FTPOnline Blog
Join in as FTP editors and publishers sound off on issues that strike a chord with the IT and development communities. [Read More]

Books

Create Apps That Talk
This chapter from Building Intelligent .NET Applications shows you how to build telephony and multimodal applications using the Microsoft Speech Application SDK. [Read More]

ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005
This chapter from ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0—The Beta Version discusses SQL Server Query Notifications, SQL Server UDTs, and more. [Read More]

Products

Product Brief: VS.NET Plug-In for Linux
Mainsoft's Visual MainWin for J2EE Developer Edition, also known as Grasshopper, is a freely available VS.NET plug-in that enables developers to build Web apps for Linux. [Read More]

New Dev Tools Integrate With VS 2005
Check out new development tools, including products that help you build database apps, enhance your app's presentation layer, design Web apps more easily, and more. [Read More]

Browse More Than 900 VS.NET Products
Check out the growing list of products in the FTPOnline Product Catalog. More than 900 components, utilities, and training resources can help you with your VS.NET development. [Read More]


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