Ok. this is a new thing im going to start doing. OreillyNet is a great site, full of information that i read every day. so, when i find cool articles to read, ill post them here. this is the second one of these i have done, and ill make a category later, but for now, heres a few more.

  • Efficient String Manipulations with StringBuilder by Budi Kurniawan — In .NET programming, string manipulation with the String class is problematic, but there is an alternative — the StringBuilder class. Learn how to use it in this article.
  • An Introduction to VB.NET Attributes, Part 1 by Steven Roman, Ph.D., Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax — In Part One of a three-part excerpt from O’Reilly’s VB .NET Language in a Nutshell, the authors give an introduction to Attributes and its syntax and use.
  • An Introduction to VB.NET Attributes, Part 2 by Steven Roman, Ph.D., Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax — In this part two of three from a series of book excerpts from O’Reilly’s VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, the authors show you how to define custom attributes. An Introduction to VB.NET Attributes, Part 3 by Steven Roman, Ph.D., Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax — The third and final part of this excerpt from O’Reilly’s VB .NET Language in a Nutshell, the authors address custom attributes.

  • ADO.NET, Part 1 by Dave Grundgeiger — Many software applications benefit from storing their data in database management systems. In this excerpt from Chapter 8 of Programming Visual Basic .NET, the author show you how to connect to a SQL Server using ADO.
  • ADO.NET, Part 2 (.NET DevCenter)
    In this second installment from Programming Visual Basic .NET, learn to connect to an OLE DB data source and read data into a dataset using ADO.NET.
  • ADO.NET, Part 3 (.NET DevCenter)
    This is the third installment from Programming Visual Basic .NET, focusing on the relations between DataTables in a DataSet, and the DataSets XML capabilities.
  • [ADO.NET, Part 4][10] (.NET DevCenter) This is the forth installment from *[Programming Visual Basic .NET][7]*, focusing on binding a DataSet to a Windows and a Web Forms DataGrid.

  • [ADO.NET, Part 5][11] (.NET DevCenter) This final excerpt from *[Programming Visual Basic .NET][7]* concludes this series of excerpts with Typed DataSets, reading data into a DataReader, and executing stored procedures through a SqlCommand object.

  • [Top Five Visual Basic .NET Tips][12] (.NET DevCenter) Every time Dave Grundgeiger digs down to find out how something is done in .NET, he’s pleased by the simplicity and elegance of the solution. Dave’s tips will help you get comfortable with VB .NET, and so will his new book, [**Programming Visual Basic .NET**][13].

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