Discusses the benefits, features, and behavior of pooling within the context of the MDAC architecture, including technology-specific tips for OLE DB, ADO, and ODBC developers. (Leland Ahlbeck and Don Willits / Microsoft)

Includes information on the Visual Basic.NET upgrade tool and discusses architectural guidelines for enabling a smooth upgrade from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic.NET. By Microsoft.

The com.ms.wfc.html package of the Windows Foundation Classes for Java (WFC) framework provides Dynamic HTML (DHTML) on a Web page directly from a Java class.(Microsoft)

MSDN Online Voices Diving Into Data Access column on reading data readers secrets.

Find information about creating providers from the simple to the advanced.

Technical specification detailing the language and syntax of the format. From the MSDN library.

By Easwaran G. Nadhan. Discusses various approaches to solving the eight key challenges companies face when implementing a service-oriented architecture.

Many developers wish there was a language that was easy to write, read, and maintain like Visual Basic, but that still provided the power and flexibility of C++. For those developers, the new C# language is here.

Offers introduction to development in environment.

Introduces the concept of an assembly and describes how the .NET Framework uses assemblies to solve versioning and deployment problems. By Steven Pratschner, Microsoft.