Includes index.

Contents: Windows forms solutions: Listbox itemdata is gone! -- Create owner- drawn listboxes and comobo boxes-- Upgrade your INI files to XML -- Build your own XML- enabled windows forms tree view control -- General .NET topics: Take advantageof streams and formatters in VB.NET -- File I/O in VB.NET: avoid the compatibility syntax -- Gain control of regular expressions -- Add sort capabilities to your .NET classes -- A Plethora of XML choices -- Where should i store that data? -- Performing the most- requested conversions in .NET -- Building custom collections in .NET -- Launching and monitoring external programs from VB.NET -- Building custom collections in .NET -- Parse and validate command- line parameters with VB.NET -- Monitor data and files with a windows service -- ASP.NET solutions: Creating custom configuration settings in ASP.NET -- Internationalize your ASP.NET applications(part1of 2) -- Internationalize your ASP.NET applications(part2of 2) -- Managing focus in web forms -- The Missing message boxes in ASP.NET -- ADO.NET solutions: Optimizing and troubleshooting database connections -- Replacing recordsets with datasets -- Working with calculated datacolumns -- Combining tables in a dataset -- Getting customized XML from SQL server -- XML and the dataset -- Databinding listsboxes and comobo boxes -- Advanced databinding -- Synchronizing datasets with diagrams -- The 10- minute guide to paging data.