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As you might find out the hard way, the .NET redistributable does not include the files required for the Reporting Services ReportViewer control. This is an issue for web servers when deploying ASP.NET applications that use this control. You can download the redistributable files below:

• Visual Studio 2005
• Visual Studio 2008

Ever wonder what all the shortcut keys are in Visual Studio? Well now you can print a poster of them:

• Visual C#
• Visual Basic

This project gives you access to the code for upcoming releases that the Microsoft ASP.NET team is working on. The project gives you a look at the design and lets you have a voice in it.

http://codeplex.com/aspnet

If you are a student at a university, you can get a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional and other Microsoft software. Got to this link: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Products/Visual_Studio_2008.aspx

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a preview of new features being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A9C6BC06-B894-4B11-8300-35BD2F8FC908&displaylang=en

This site has been designed by the SQL Server Data Mining team to provide the SQL Server community with access to and information about our exciting data mining features.

http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/

Refactor! is freely available to all Visual Basic .NET 2005 developers and offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enable you and your team to simplify and shape complex code - making it easier to read and less costly to maintain.

Download by going to: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/IDETools/VBRefactor/

Want to see what your site or others looked like in the past? Check out the Wayback Machine at: http://www.archive.org/

Want to make your friends or co-workers call for support on their computer for no reason? Secretly install this cool screen saver that fakes the Windows blue screen and reboot sequence. Loads of fun!

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/BlueScreen.mspx

Tools for Office download:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905533.aspx

Line and Shape controls, PrintForm component, and Printer Compatibility Library

The Microsoft website for ASP.NET Ajax:

http://www.asp.net/ajax/

Microsoft site for the Expression products:

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/default.aspx

Consistently delivering high-quality technology solutions on time and on budget is challenging for any business. The Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) provides people and process guidance—the proven practices of Microsoft—to help teams and organizations become more successful in delivering business-driven technology solutions to their customers. MSF is a deliberate and disciplined approach to technology projects based on a defined set of principles, models, disciplines, concepts, guidelines, and proven practices from Microsoft. MSF version 3.0 updates the Team and Process Models, introduces three new Disciplines (Project Management, Risk Management, and Readiness Management), provides new whitepapers (available online), a new course (1846A: MSF Essentials), public and private MSF newsgroups, and a suite of templates. Moreover, better integration with the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and industry project management standards plus a new MSF Practitioner Program strengthen Microsoft’s proven practices for delivering innovative technology solutions.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/solutionaccelerators/msf/default.mspx

The Microsoft code name “Acropolis” Community Technology Preview is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications. Acropolis is part of the “.NET Client Futures” wave of releases, our preview of upcoming technologies for Windows client development.

Looks pretty cool. Check out and download the tools below:

http://windowsclient.net/acropolis/default.aspx

The Beta 2 release includes most of the products found in the Visual Studio product line. As with all prerelease software, we encourage you only to install these on a secondary machine, or in a virtual machine, as they are not supported by Microsoft Services support teams. MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. You can also go to:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx

Resources for IT Professionals:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard enables the deployment of SQL Server databases into a hosted environment on either a SQL Server 2000 or 2005 server. It generates a single SQL script file which can be used to recreate a database (both schema and data) in a shared hosting environment where the only connectivity to a server is through a web-based control panel with a script execution window. If supported by the hosting service provider, the Database Publishing Wizard can also directly upload databases to servers located at the shared hosting provider.

Optionally, SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard can integrate directly into Visual Studio 2005 and/or Visual Web Developer 2005 allowing easy publishing of databases from within the development environment.

Download by going to: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=56E5B1C5-BF17-42E0-A410-371A838E570A&displaylang=en

Microsoft Web service and distributed systems technologies provide the means for software to connect to other software applications in order to build distributed, service-oriented systems.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/webservices/default.aspx

Here is a pretty cool web site that will monitor your web sites for free!

http://www.montastic.com/

At Microsoft Live Labs we bring scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and the online community together to think about and build a better online world.

http://labs.live.com/

The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct Web services that adhere to well known architecture and design patterns.

For more info, go to: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480534.aspx

To download go to: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5559918

Microsoft Office InfoPath developers' home on MSDN:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905434.aspx

Great article on generating docs for your VB.NET Application:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa289191(VS.71).aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1b6acf93-147a-4481-9346-f93a4081eea8&displaylang=en

Is homepage layout effective? ... What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? ... When is multimedia appropriate? ... Are ads placed where they will be seen by the audience? Find out: http://www.poynterextra.org/eyetrack2004/main.htm

The Power Pack controls consist of:

• BlendPanel. This provides a background for a form where the color fades from one shade to another.
• UtilityToolbar. This is a toolbar whose look and feel is similar to the Internet Explorer toolbar.
• ImageButton. This is a button that displays a graphic over a transparent background.
• NotificationWindow. This displays text and graphics in a pop-up window (commonly known as "toast").
• TaskPane. This is a container that provides collapsible frames for displaying additional information on a form.
• FolderViewer. This displays directories in a hierarchical format.
• FileViewer. This displays a list of the files in a specified directory.

For more information, go to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbpowerpack.asp

Microsoft has invested heavily in Visual Studio .NET extensibility. This is an important part of Visual Studio .NET because it lets customers easily tailor the tool to their personal working style and enables them to accommodate team practices. You can simply capture several steps in a regular process (for example, for check-ins, creating new projects or forms, or updating code) and make that process available as a single command to invoke. Independent software vendors (ISVs) can implement entirely new features (including groupware, profiling tools, work flow, or life-cycle tools) that fit into Visual Studio .NET 2003 as seamlessly as if they were built into the shipping Visual Studio .NET product.

These code samples show you how to build VSMacros projects, add–ins, and wizards to make your teams more productive and to bend Visual Studio .NET 2003 to the ways you like to work. Look for more samples, as well as some white papers and overview documents, in the future.

All of these samples use the Visual Studio automation model, which is free and publicly distributed with Visual Studio .NET 2003. The Visual Studio .NET automation model is four to five times richer and more powerful than any automation model that shipped with a previous version of Visual Studio.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3ff9c915-30e5-430e-95b3-621dccd25150&displaylang=en

This Toolkit offers functionality similar to the MSDN SOAP Toolkit sample, which has been available for several months, but is a fully Microsoft supported product. This Toolkit replaces the old MSDN SOAP Toolkit.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=147ed727-0be8-48a1-b1da-d50b1ea582cb&displaylang=en

SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Redistributable Files:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d4490e52-5f6e-4127-9dc7-88b7c8f83b74&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a2643c1-0685-4d89-b655-521ea6c7b4db&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=45f13070-f2f1-4b51-af91-b14425ff7745&DisplayLang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=62d91a63-1253-4ea6-8599-68fb3ef77de1&DisplayLang=en

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001369

Microsoft patterns & practices are Microsoft's recommendations for how to design, develop, deploy, and operate architecturally sound applications for the Microsoft application platform.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/device/compact.aspx