IdeaBlade, a leading provider of .NET application development tools, has released the DevForce Express 3.5 package, a free, no-time-limit, no-royalty product that includes all product documentation, "Quickstart" tutorials, and demos. More info

This month Aaron Skonnard continues his exploration of software factories with a look at the Web Service Software Factory for Windows Communication Foundation. More info

This new column explores how you can extend and customize Microsoft Office System applications and file formats. More info

In this column see how to bind to a custom list of business entities using the binding tools in the .NET Framework 2.0. More info

This month the CLR team introduces the new System.AddIn namespace in the Base Class Library, which will be available in the "Orcas" release of Visual Studio. More info

Where are the files generated by ASP.NET stored and how are they used to serve page requests? This month Cutting Edge explains. More info

This month John Papa fields some of his favorite questions regarding data manipulation with ADO.NET. More info

In this video, Chris Pels creates a managed Windows Forms control to use in a C++ application, and teaches you how to capture events from the Windows Forms control in your C++ application. More info

In this video, Chris Pells shows you how to load XML from disk or create XML in code with XML literals in Visual Basic or XElement in C#, and how LINQ queries can be executed against the XML to extract specific elements. More info

In this video, Rob Windsor shows you how to create an AJAX-enabled Web service and use its methods from client script running in a separate Web application. More info