Simplifying Deployment and Solving DLL Hell with the .NET Framework
- Introduces the concept of an assembly and describes how the .NET Framework uses assemblies to solve versioning and deployment problems. By Steven Pratschner, Microsoft.
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973843.aspx

Microsoft Announces Availability of Visual Studio.NET And .NET Framework Beta 1; Submits C# to ECMA
- Announces public availability and standardization of tools and platform for building Web services.
- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2000/nov00/VSFWbeta1PR.mspx

Back end of .Net
- eWEEK Labs' tests of betas of Microsoft servers show how the rhetoric meets the road. By Timothy Dyck.
- http://www.zdnetindia.com/techzone/enterprise/stories/318.html

Visual Studio.Net: Write Once, Run Everywhere?
- Microsoft, riding the wave of its newfound popularity as an Internet standards supporter, claims it will do with .NET what Sun refuses to do with Java: push it as an open standard. By Paula Rooney, CRN.
- http://www.crn.com/it-channel/18817327

Visual Studio Unites Seven Languages under the .NET Flag
- Visual Studio.NET topples cross-language barriers so businesses can produce creative code quicker. By Tom Yager, InfoWorld Test Center.
- http://www.infoworld.com/articles/es/xml/00/10/09/001009esstudio.html

Microsoft .NET vs. J2EE: How Do They Stack Up?
- A high-level comparison of the two platforms. By Jim Farley, O'Reilly.
- http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/java/news/farley_0800.html

Microsoft Covets High-end Unix Market
- In the continuing quest to move higher into the enterprise data center, Microsoft this week will launch its .NET family of enterprise servers, including Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, the company's most powerful server operating system yet. By Tom Sulli
- http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/09/25/000925hnwindows.html

Welcome to the .NET Channel
- Columnist Paul Thurrott kicks off the Windows 2000 Magazine Network's .NET Channel.
- http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=16079

An in-depth look at WMI and instrumentation, Part II
- WMI stands for Windows Management Instrumentation and, as the name indicates, is about managing your IT infrastructure this article is the second part of a two-part series.
- http://www.developerland.com/DotNet/Enterprise/147.aspx

An in-depth look at WMI and instrumentation, Part I
- WMI stands for Windows Management Instrumentation and, as the name indicates, is about managing your IT infrastructure this article provides an in-depth look at WMI and MOM 2005.
- http://www.developerland.com/DotNet/Enterprise/145.aspx

DevX .NET Zone
- Articles and discussions on Visual Studio.NET and the .NET Framework.
- http://www.devx.com/dotnet/

15 Seconds: .NET
- Articles and links on .NET. By internet.com Corp.
- http://www.15seconds.com/focus/.NET.htm

i-sources.net
- Provides a collection of theme based articles for .net developers.
- http://www.i-sources.net/

Spider in .NET: Crawl Web Sites and Catalog Info to Any Data Store with ADO.NET and Visual Basic .NET
- MSDN Magazine article by Mark Gerlach that shows how to write a multi-threaded web crawler using Visual Base .NET .
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/SpiderinNET/TOC.asp

The Code Project
- A range of tutorials submitted by site users.
- http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/

Deploying .NET Software Components
- An introduction to .NET Software Components Deployment. By Jean-Claude Batista.
- http://www.macadamian.com/column/assemblies.html

Using Resources in Visual Studio .NET
- Visual Studio .NET has poor support for managing project resources such as bitmaps and icons. This is a short tutorial that explains the VS.NET resource management model, points you to a useful tool for editing resources, and provides example code for loa
- http://www.jelovic.com/articles/resources_in_visual_studio.htm

Viewpoint - Microsoft's .NET Strategy
- Overview and commentary on .NET and C# initiatives. By Gopalan Suresh Raj.
- http://my.execpc.com/~gopalan/misc/viewpoint.html

XML in .NET
- Microsoft .NET introduces a new suite of XML APIs built on industry standards such as DOM, XPath, XSD, and XSLT. A discussion of the XMLDOM-Document is also included. By Aaron Skonnard, MSDN Magazine.
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/01/xml/default.aspx

Garbage Collection: Automatic Memory Management in the Microsoft .NET Framework, Part 2
- Explains strong and weak object references that help to manage memory for large objects, as well as object generations and how they improve performance. In addition, the use of methods and properties for controlling garbage collection, resources for monit
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1200/GCI2/default.aspx

Avoiding DLL Hell: Introducing Application Metadata in the Microsoft .NET Framework
- Describes the use of metadata for easy linking and loading of assemblies, the relationship between metadata and concepts such as IDL and type libraries, and the metadata hierarchy. By Matt Pietrek, MSDN Magazine.
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1000/metadata/default.aspx

.NET: Type Fundamentals
- Discusses type fundamentals. Starts off by introducing primitive types and then quickly moves on to reference types and value types. By Jeffrey Richter, MSDN Magazine.
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1200/dotnet/default.aspx

Garbage Collection: Automatic Memory Management in the Microsoft .NET Framework
- Explains how resources are allocated and managed, then gives a description of how the garbage collection algorithm works. Also discussed are the way resources can clean up properly when the garbage collector decides to free a resource's memory and how to
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1100/GCI/default.aspx

The Advanced C#/.NET Tutorial by Gopalan Suresh Raj
- Includes a tutorial on advanced C#/.NET topics like .NET Remoting and Channels, Reflection and Dynamic Method Invocation, Asynchronous Message Queuing using the .NET and COM+ Services, how to make HTTP GET and POST requests on Web Page using ASP+, C# &
- http://my.execpc.com/~gopalan/dotnet/net_tutorial.html

Microsoft Goes Bonkers
- Microsoft's latest announcement, called Microsoft .NET, while touted by the likes of Fortune Magazine as a huge "revolution", is really nothing but vaporware. By Joel Spolsky.
- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000049.html

Microsoft's .NET Impact
- Exploiting Microsoft's enterprise application strategy, .NET, should prove a dream for IT managers. The pre-beta version is inherently scalable and easy to build and deploy, saving valuable time and resources. By Tom Yager, InfoWorld Test Center.
- http://www.javaworld.com/jw-09-2000/jw-0922-iw-msnet.html

Doing .NET In Internet Time
- Pioneers are testing Microsoft's new architecture, even as components are being released. By Don Kiely.
- http://www.informationweek.com/815/dotnet.htm

The Code Project - Jeff Prosise on .NET - Interviews
- Jeff Prosise from Wintellect has agreed to step up to the podium and give us his thoughts on Life, the Universe, and .NET. Jeff Prosise answers your questions on .NET. By Chris Maunder.
- http://www.codeproject.com/interview/jeffprosise17aug2000.asp

Introduction to .NET, Hello World, and a Quick Look Inside the .NET Runtime
- The .NET Framework and Runtime-and why you might care. How to get and install Beta 1 of the .NET Framework SDK and/or Visual Studio.NET. Looks at the metadata and IL for sample programs, and tours the documentation. By Dr. GUI.NET, MSDN.
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/welcome/dsmsdn/drguinet11202000.htm

Microsoft .NET Framework Component Services, Part 1
- Discusses the coding, compilation, and deployment process for writing managed classes that utilize COM+ services. By Jonathan Hawkins and Shannon Pahl, Microsoft Corporation.
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/Pahlcompserv.htm