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title: "Visual Basic Resource Kit (C# developers are not banned!)"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/1/visual-basic-resource-kit-c-developers-are-not-banned.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/1/visual-basic-resource-kit-c-developers-are-not-banned.html"
published: "2003-10-01T23:16:00"
updated: "2003-10-01T23:16:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The download isn't up yet, it takes some time to sign and virus scan an entire CD packaged up as a zip, but the site that details what is included is there! Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit for all the…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Visual Basic Resource Kit (C\# developers are not banned!)

By Roy Osherove October 1, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 1, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

<table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><em>The download isn't up yet, it takes some time to sign and virus scan an entire CD packaged up as a zip, but the site that details what is included is there!<br><br>Check out </em><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/"><em>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit</em></a><em> for all the details, and you can even order yourself a copy of the CD if you want to avoid the downloading hassles...<br><br>Quick highlights; a ton of free controls (not just trial editions) from Component One, Dundas, Infragistics, and Sax (Sax is provided a serial communication control!!!!), a pile of sample code, whitepapers and multi-media content as well.<br><br>Oh, and just a small point... all of the controls should work fine in C# as far as I know :)</em></td></tr></tbody></table>

\[[Duncan Mackenzie](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/posts/30062.aspx) \]

**Update: The download is available online now!**

Um.. need I say more?

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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