that Paul Kuliniewicz maintains a really useful site on the Windows API at http://www.vbapi.com/ref/index.html

Jeffrey Richter's 26-page article on "Preparing Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications for the Upgrade to Visual Basic.NET" http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/techart/vb6tovbdotnet.htm

Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic.NET 
Microsoft Visual Basic.NET is the next version of the Visual Basic development system, reengineered to be the premier tool for quickly developing Microsoft Windows-based applications as well as the next generation of Web applications and services. Learn how to leverage these advancements by upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic version 6.0 projects to Visual Basic.NET. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/technology/vbupgrade.asp

Nikhil Kothari's 21-page "Introduction to Web Forms" provides a great introduction to Web Forms, the ASP+ alias ASP.NET. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/techart/webforms.htm

The first installment in a series of MSDN Online tutorial columns, "Dr. GUI.NET," live  at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/welcome/dsmsdn/drguinet11202000.htm

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Microsoft's reengineering of its flagship development environment will catch many VB programmers off-guard.
http://www.devx.com/devxpress/gurl.asp?i=1X687900X4183

DirectX 8.0 SDK. Contains the runtime, headers and libs, sample executables, sample source, documentation, DirectX utilities, and support for both C++ and Visual Basic development. http://msdn.Microsoft.com/directx

that you can also download an advanced "how to" for displaying text with an icon that can be toggled next to each line (like setting break points in VB) from Rod Stephens' VB-Helper site at http://www.vb-helper.com/HowTo/codebrk.zip (Remember, Rod writes a monthly column for Visual Basic Developer!)

Q271619 - HOWTO: Retrieve XML Data by Using an XPath Query in a Visual Basic Client http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q271/6/19.asp

Q274536 - HOWTO: Specify a UDL File as the Source of Connection Attributes for a VB Data Environment Connection Object http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q274/5/36.asp

Q216434 INFO: How Internet Explorer Determines If ActiveX Controls Are Safe http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/4/34.asp

that you can download code for a new "HowTo: Lock the mouse so the user cannot move it outside a form" from Rod Stephens' VB-Helper site at http://www.vb-helper.com/HowTo/lockws2.zip 

Q254339 - HOWTO: Use FlashWindowEx to Notify a User from Visual Basic http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q254/3/39.asp

"Microsoft won't defeat Java"  Microsoft and Java are just going to have to play nice together. A Gartner analyst says users will have to support both Microsoft and Java application server standards for several years and that neither will replace the other. Microsoft's .Net architecture is likely to be incompatible with its current Com and Com+ standards the analyst warned.  SOURCE: vnunet http://www.vnunet.com/News/1114159

Whenever a new version of ADO comes out, most of us cringe and wait for the fallout. According to Bill Vaughn, president of Beta V Corporation, retired Microsoft VB/SQL guru, author, and frequent contributor to the VBDATA mailing list (see http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/vbdata-l.html ), migration from 2.5 to 2.6 is generally painless. Although ADO 2.6 has a number of new datatypes to support BigInt, sql_Variant, and so on, as well as support for the new "Streaming" interface that works with XML, the differences between 2.5 and 2.6 "are generally benign."

Q269495 - PRB: "Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors" When Opening ADO Connection http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q269/4/95.asp

Five Steps to Getting Started with ASP.NET http://msdn.microsoft.com/voices/asp11122000.asp  

ActiveX and Visual Basic: Enhance the Display of Long Text Strings in a Combobox or Listbox http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1200/combo/combo.asp

SmartPlanet (www.smartplanet.com ) SmartPlanet has been offering Visual Basic programming courses for over

ElementK (www.elementk.com ) Like SmartPlanet, ElementK has offered Visual Basic courses for a number of years. For the last six months or so, ElementK has been offering a series of Advanced courses aimed at preparing students for the Microsoft Desktop (70-176) and Distributed (70-175) Visual Basic Exams. In addition, in January, they'll be offering a 3-part course on creating ActiveX/COM Components in Visual Basic.

that the Office 2000 SP2 has been released? Details and bugfix list: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloaddetails/SP2upd.htm  and http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q276/2/57.asp .