.NET projects

.NET vs. Java
1. .NET code/article source - www.codeproject.com
- The Code Project is a community of Visual Studio .NET developers joined together with a common goal: To learn, to teach, to have fun programming. Developers from all over the world come together to share source code, tutorials and knowledge for free to help their fellow programmers
- Digg reviews
- Visual Studio Express and SharpDevelop Compared
-http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/FeatureTourVisuallyDesigningForms.aspx

2. MS visualcsharp - free , it seems it has nice sample projects already built ..

good video - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/features/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/features/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/faq/#pricing -- free
- Effective April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions are free permanently
- The Express Editions can only be used to create applications that run on the .NET Framework 2.0.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/reviews/86761/microsoft-visual-studio-2005-express.html#
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express
- It isn't even included in Windows XP Home Edition. To allow for this, Visual Web Developer ships with its own built-in development web server,


3. C# Open Source - http://csharp-source.net/
- has IDEs, Charts, Reporting etc.. tools

- check if you can compile/build this zedcharts in .NET open source IDEs .. and they run on windows home baisc..

Open Source Charting & Reporting Tools in C#

Open Source IDEs in C#
-- check the other .NET/c#sharp IDE you stored in google docs , that may be better ...
paid charts
-- what a great way to present 6 categories for period of 12 or 24 ( months ) etc..