You can download for free the electronic version of the book "Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks" by Minh T. Nguyen published by InfoQ. It is a nice book covering the Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, and 2005 Beta 1 releases. http://www.infoq.com/minibooks...

Free training on WinFX 3.0 development technologies (i.e. WCF, WF and WPF) at Microsoft Learning: Clinic 5137: Introduction to Developing with Windows® Communication Foundation and Visual Studio® 2005 Clinic 5136: Introduction to Developing with Windows...

You can freely download a PDF version (2.49 MB) of the C# v2.0 Language Specification from the ECMA website . An Office Word document covering only the new features made available with C# 2.0 (generics, anonymous methods, iterators, partial types and...

Tied to my previous post, I recently noticed that there is a fast growing number of search engines dedicated to searching source code listings. Here is a, probably, incomplete list of them: Codase CodeFetch CodeHound Google Code Search ...

A nice initiative from O'reilly allows anyone to search for source code samples inside over 700 O'reilly books: http://labs.oreilly.com/code/