Mar 22 2008
VB Tips #1: Visual Basic PowerPack
Surprisingly, one of the most useful extension to Microsoft Visual Studio goes largely unnoticed: Visual Basic PowerPack.
Think of Visual Basic PowerPack as the managed code reincarnation of a collection controls that made life easy on VB6 but were dropped since VB7:

Controls include PrintForm, LineShape, OvalShape, RectangleShape and DataRepeater. Oh those good old days are back!