How about "Effective C#" rather than "best practices", etc.

Free tools, IDE's and what not for development.

Adwait, whats the difference between a talk on Effective C# vs. Best practices?

you know being on the board of a .net user group for over 2 years now I have seen best practices, I have seen using application blocks, I have seen everything from decompiling ngened assemblies and obfuscating your code, all the way to the basics of Visual Studio.

However one thing I have never seen, one thing the MSDN documentation is poor at and there is only one book on. System.DirectoryServices no one ever talks about it, I am coding against, it querying it and so on, but am i doing it right, what are good practices to use when doing this. You really never see much information on this anywhere. And when you do it is scattered around.