An ordinary VB developer shares his own successes and failures

Resources

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Links to tools and resources that I've used and found useful ...

	Constable Authorization Engine™ The Constable Authorization Engine(CAZE) is a 100% managed .NET Framework class library that allows you to easily implement most of the authorization logic required by your business applications.

	Dynamic AutoComplete Tool™ Add AutoComplete to your WinForms application and improve your users' productivity by more than 100% (source: www.humanfactors.com). With Dynamic AutoComplete Tool, it's just a matter of a few mouse clicks.

	Instant Demo by NetPlay Software Create interactive, web-based product demonstrations and tutorials the easy way. Demonstrate your applications, even prototypes, and impress you users (an your boss ;-). In many cases, your users would prefer interactive, entertaining demos to reading boring help files. With Instant Demo, you'll actually enjoy creating the demos. You even don't have to have any special skills. If you don't believe me, just have a look at some demos I've created for my product. With Instant Demo, you can have your own demos...well, instantly. Download your trial version here.

	VBdocman.NET, VBdocman (for VB6) VBdocman is a powerful, easy to use documentation generator for VB.NET and VB6. Click here for more info...

	Monitoring serial communications made easy ...

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	Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime This is a must-read for anyone serious about .NET development. You might think you don't want to know how the CLR operates and still be a successful application developer. (After all, what did you know about the inner workings of MSVBVM60.dll back then?) The truth is, IMHO, that when you want to be a good application developer, you'll have to know a lot about the CLR. This book will give you that information in a terse, "zero-superfluous-words" style.