Microsoft XML Team has announced the LINQ to XSD Preview Alpha 0.2 for Visual Studio 2008. The LINQ to XSD preview illustrates our initial thinking on a strongly-typed programming experience over LINQ to XML. Instead of working with untyped XML trees, LINQ to XSD allows you to program in terms of strongly...

Some tips posted by John W Powell about how to increase your development productivity using Visual Studio 2008. [Update] They are aslo can be applied to Visual Studio 2005 except Auto-Implement Properties Learn Key Bindings Generate XML Comments with GhostDoc Auto-Implement Properties Refactor Add Commands...

There are some great enhancements coming to .NET 3.5 with the SP1 release scheduled for later this year.  If you'd like to get started with these new enhancements early, and want some great training on them this is the way to do it.  All you need to do is download the kit from here:  http...

This starter kit allows for simple CRUD operations to maintain a company's employee information. It is intended to be a guideline for building enterprise level projects, by utilizing new ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 features, as well as latest best coding practices. Download the Employee Info Starter...

Project Description This tool takes a SQL Profiler trace file and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of database calls found in the trace file. The unit test is designed to be used in a Visual Studio Load Test. The code generated is easily modifiable so that data variation can be introduced...

Carl J has created a list of 21+ FREE tools and resources that may make writing regular expressions a bit easier. +21 FREE Regular Expression Tools