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Generics are a shipping feature of the .NET Framework 2.0, and managed code is faster, more maintainable, and more robust because of it. Jason Clark provides an in-depth look.

Just when you thought there wasn't anything new that you could do with a webcam, along comes this article, which shows you how to exploit the AVICap Windows class so you can integrate on-demand screen captures into your applications.

Almost every time exceptions are mentioned in mailing lists and newsgroups, people say they're really expensive, and should be avoided in almost all situations. Jon Skeet examines the claim.

An article presenting benefits and techniques for using test-driven development in .NET, specifically examining the NUnit testing framework.

Many developers are familiar only with the high-level .NET frameworks like Web Forms and Web services that sit at the very top level of the ASP.NET hierarchy. This article discusses the lower-level aspects of ASP.NET and explains how requests move from Web Server to the ASP.NET runtime and then through the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline to process requests.

Online Article: The Baker's Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for ADO.NET 2.0

This installment of "The Baker's Dozen" presents a variety of tips and techniques to become productive with data handling techniques using ADO.NET 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005. ADO.NET 2.0 is faster than the first version of ADO.NET; in some instances, significantly faster. While many view ADO.NET 2.0 as more evolutionary than revolutionary, it provides many functions to give developers greater control over data access and data manipulation. It also leverages the new database capabilities in SQL Server 2005. In addition, ADO.NET 2.0 simplifies the creation of multiple-database solutions.

Online Article: Top-Ten Annotations and Remarks about the Wonderful and Powerful New Set of Features in ASP.NET 2.0

You'll still write a good deal of code in ASP.NET 2.0.Don't completely trust those who say that ASP.NET 2.0 cuts 70% of the amount of code you're called to write. You'll end up writing more or less the same quantity of code, but you'll write code of different quality. You'll have more components and less boilerplate code to tie together pages and controls. Features like the provider model, data source controls, and master pages make coding easier and equally effective. But since there's no magic behind, you have to learn the implications of each feature you employ. In the end, ASP.NET 2.0 comes with code behind, not magic behind.

There will be many times where you will need to have a time table in your applications. This articles discusses on the same.

There may be requirement where in data in an Excel sheet has to be manipulated inside .NET Applications. Although there are many ways to achieve this (like using Excel object of COM), the most preferred way is to use the .NET Data providers to achieve this. This article discusses on the same.

This article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents using the .NET Framework.