Appendix D. Resources for Developers
The amount of brainpower floating around in cyberspace is amazing. If you’re stuck, you need never stay stuck for long. In this appendix, I list some of my favorite .NET hangouts on the Web—though it is by no means exhaustive.
The links shown here were verified at the time of printing, but of course, there is no guarantee that they will remain so.
.NET Information
- Microsoft
This is the official home page for information about Microsoft’s .NET initiative. On this page you will find links to:
Definitions and overviews of .NET
Information about .NET My Services, Microsoft’s package of web-service offerings
.NET books and articles
.NET training
Information about Visual Studio .NET
.NET success stories
- Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/
This offeres complete .NET reference documentation online.
- Microsoft’s GotDotNet
.NET articles, samples, and links are provided by Microsoft .NET team members, as well as users.
- Microsoft’s IBuySpy
This is a reference implementation for a complete web site developed using ASP.NET. Complete source code is downloadable in Visual Basic .NET or C#.
- O’Reilly
O’Reilly has a large lineup of .NET books written by experts in the field.
- Ron’s VB Forum
O’Reilly editor, Ron Petrusha, hosts this column in which particularly interesting VB questions are answered.
- DevX .NET Developer ...
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