>Actually, I'm finding the combination of Intellisense and context-sensitive help in VS.NET pretty valuable if I at least know the class name to work with.

Well, but that's the problem - finding the right objects. ANd then often the various methods are not very consistent between objects. Methods with the same name often do vastly different things <s>...

>As for books, I like the SAMS books, including Programming Data-Driven Web Applications with ASP.NET, Dan Wahlin's XML for ASP.NET Developers and ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials and Code. I need to go find a good one for WinForms development, however.

The Wrox Professional WinForms book is pretty good actually. Also, Jeff Richter's .NET Framework book is excellent on .NET Framework concepts (little bit on the technical side, but the best overall conceptual book I've seen so far).

Dan Wahlin's book is the best overall XML book I've seen even though it's ASP.NET specific...