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title: "Get your resource kit (and disregard the kit name)"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/19/get-your-resource-kit-and-disregard-the-kit-name.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/19/get-your-resource-kit-and-disregard-the-kit-name.html"
published: "2004-02-19T09:43:00"
updated: "2004-02-19T09:43:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The ASP.Net Resource kit is now available for download . Don't ask any questions, just download it. Oh, and if you haven't downloaded the VB.Net resource kit , you should. Really. Even if you only do C# . It contains…"
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# Get your resource kit (and disregard the kit name)

By Roy Osherove February 19, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 19, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

The [ASP.Net Resource kit](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/19/The%20ASP.Net%20Resource%20kit%20is%20now%20available%20for%20download.%20Don't%20ask%20any%20questions,%20just%20download%20it.) is now [available for download](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aef6aa76-ab88-4264-87b4-8e946ef584d7&DisplayLang=en). Don't ask any questions, just download it.

Oh, and if you haven't downloaded the [VB.Net resource kit](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/), you should. Really. **Even if you only do C#**. It contains free controls(that usually cost a lot of money) and other cool stuff.

Did you let yourself be fooled by the names? you should have learned by now that .Net is not about names, it's about the framework. That's why even though there are about 5 different user groups in Israel that deal with .Net(C#,VB.Net,Web...and so on) you benefit from each and everyone of them no matter what you actually do with .Net. Because, you guessed it, it's all about the underlying framework. Know the classes and you have your ticket to success. Syntax is just icing on the cake.

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- Feb 19, 2004

    ### [Mortal sin: Just "Doit"](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/19/mortal-sin-just-quotdoitquot.html)

- Feb 19, 2004

    ### [Mortal sin: A non-relational relational database.](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/19/mortal-sin-a-non-relational-relational-database.html)

- Feb 18, 2004

    ### [Stuff to know about the Data Application Block](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/18/stuff-to-know-about-the-data-application-block.html)

- Feb 17, 2004

    ### [SQL relations considered harmful?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/sql-relations-considered-harmful.html)


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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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