In an effort to integrate more components into the Visual Studio .NET IDE, Microsoft is giving away free DVDs that contain a large number of applications pooled from members of the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program (VSIP).

The offering includes over 65 best of breed third party tools. VSIP’s mission is the integration of tools, components, and languages into VS.NET’s developer environment. The member-provided software is designed to accelerate this.

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Here’s a year-end present from Uncle Billy. A set of useful tools for free. Even the shipping is no-charge. The link to the order page is at the end of the article, but their post was busted, so it doesn’t show up as a link, so don’t think it’s not there because it doesn’t catch your eye as you scan the page.