The .Net Days Of Old

My association with .NET started over 6 years ago. In those early days I used C++ and COM as a point of reference for everything I was learning in .NET and C#. Destructors versus finalizers, Assembly.Load versus LoadLibrary, Metadata versus COM+ attributes, and of course - memory leaks versus managed heaps.

Those were fun times.

I'm gearing up for a customized Pluralsight class that includes material from the Applied .NET and Applied ASP.NET 2.0 courses. I also need some perspective of a Visual Basic 6.0 developer in a .NET land.

This reading list helps to re-live the days of old (from a VB6 perspective):

• A Visual Basic Developer's Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0
• Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET Differences
• Deploying Contemporary Applications with ClickOnce (contrasts VB 6 and VB 2005 deployment strategies).
• Resolving Issues with Language
• Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005