If you're reading these lines you already know that we have completely renovated the .NET-2-The-Max site. We have a new layout, new material, and new blogs. We have less contents, too. Yes, we've decided to drop some sections from our site. Let me explain why.

When we launched the original vb2themax.com site in 1999 it was hard to find quality-level material on developers' sites. Most sites solicited tips and code samples from visitors and published it, in most cases without editing it for accuracy. Thus, we took the opposite route and decided to publish just our own material and only the best contributions from our readers. This approach and the fact that we have published new material each and every week for three years made our site very popular among VBers. (SQL Server Magazine put vb2themax in the top ten developers' site, together with first-class sites such as MSDN Online and DevX.)

More recently we lauched dotnet2themax.com. We dropped all VB6 contents to focus on .NET exclusively. The new site offered tons of links to external articles - that were categorized and searchanble, and enabled readers to filter both the index and individual articles' contents to see the material related only to VB.NET or C#. In spite of these new features, the site was basically similar to the original vb2themax and was conceived as a single-stop-shop from where developers could start their explorations.

Today, however, finding great contents on the Web is easier than ever. Most magazines are available online and for free, many Microsoft developers reveal all the .NET secrets in their blogs, and you can always use Google to discover programming gems hidden in a site or a blog you never heard before. There's no more need for a site like what dotnet2themax used to be. No need for topic categories and an internal search engine, for example. And above all, no need to update the web site on a regular basis, as if it were an online magazine.

In the new dotnet2themax.com site, Marco Bellinaso and I - and whoever will join us later - will be telling our discoveries in the .NET fields we are more familiar with, such as VB.NET and C# languages, programming techniques, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Sharepoint, and optimization techniques. We will write our blog as frequently as possible, publish code samples and articles, upload our tools, and anything we think can be useful or interesting for you developers out there.

Happy reading!

Francesco