All-in-one platform for developing any types of Office extensibility projects with minimal coding. Use visual designers to create powerful plug-ins for MS Office 2010 - 2000, smart tags, RTD servers and Excel UDFs in C#, VB.NET, C++ and Delphi Prism.

It`s a .NET Persistence Framework for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access and XML Files.

Chilkat SSL is a free COM component that makes it extremely easy to communicate securely over a TCP socket using either the SSLv3 or TLSv1 protocols.

Lumisoft’s UI Controls 0.11 contains over a dozen basic flat controls for Windows Forms apps. The controls can be configured using the Property tab in VS.NET, but lack advanced WYSIWYG design-time support and databinding. Seems somewhat buggy.

Visual XSD is a Microsoft xsd.exe add-on that offers a visual (windows) interface to xsd.exe. Visual XSD offers an easy and intuitive windows interface to xsd.exe, and lets the developer stay in a familiar and graphical environment.