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Retrieving a custom object from the clipboard returns nothing if the object has a reference to a nonserializable object. Find out how to workaround this.

Generics are a powerful new feature in .NET 2.0, but it's not so obvious how to use them as return values from Web services, or how to bind them to controls. Find out how to serialize, data bind, and consume generic collections in ASP.NET 2.0

Do you need access from your managed code to the alternate data streams in NTFS files? Need to enumerate and iterate through them? Stephen Toub shows how with the new iterator support in C# 2.0.

Learn how to create a Web service in C#.

Creating UI controls on the fly can be accomplished via run-time code generation. And there are lots of reasons to do so. Generating these controls once and then reusing them as needed is more efficient than generating the controls each time. Read on.

Wicked Code: Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0

You may use them every day, but how much do you really know about events? What's going on when you add an event handler to a class? In this article, Ken Getz demonstrates various ways to interact with events and event handlers, and shows how they can solve common problems. Along with the article, you can download two sample applications (one for Visual Basic .NET 2002 and 2003 and one for Visual Basic 2005) and follow along.

This extensive article details the process of creating complex list-based controls with rich design time support similar to my DotNetWidgets and OutlookBar controls.