Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Others

Apart from the applications discussed in this chapter, you can find another set of applications that could probably be more focused toward the usage and/or technology that you are interested in at the .NET Architecture Sample Applications area of MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnbda/html/bdadotnetsamp0.asp. Apart from these, you can download another set of sample applications and components from a .NET community site such as Got Dot Net (http://www.gotdotnet.com).

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