Add this text to the registry and you'll be able to add your DLLs to the GAC by right clicking on them: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\... @="c:\\windows\\Microsoft.N... /i \"%1\"" Found from: http://biztalkia.blogspot.c

The Krypton Toolkit has been released It provides user interface controls for Windows Forms It is targeted at Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 It is free for commercial use A link to http://www.componentfactory

This 2.1 update includes over 60 improvements, including new support for .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. VistaDB is a small-footprint, embedded SQL database alternative to Jet/Access, MSDE and SQL Server Express 2005 that enables developers to build .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 applications. Features SQL-92 support, small 500KB embedded footprint, free 2-User VistaDB Server for remote TCP/IP data access, royalty free distribution for both embedded and server, Copy 'n Go! deployment, managed ADO.NET Provider,...

A whole bunch of all Microsoft patterns and practices is here

In computer science, generics is a technique that allows one value to take different datatypes (so-called polymorphism) as long as certain contracts such as subtypes and signature are kept. The programming style emphasizing use of this technique is called generic programming. For those of you, who want to get in to generics in NET 2.0, there is a very nice article here...

An interesting article about partial classes in .NET 2.0, here