Microsoft have made the following beta (express versions) available for download from http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/  Visual Basic 2005 Visual C# 2005 Visual C++ 2005 Visual J# 2005 Visual Web Developer 2005 (includes asp.net 2.0) SQL Server 2005 These are the first public beta's of .net 2.0 so are very definately worth checking out if you haven't used .net 2.0 yet.  And even if you have, there are some interesting things here such as the Personal Web Started Kit (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vwd/starterkit/default.aspx) and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/sql/default.aspx) Ian  

bbits have released a new 3 day training course on the popular Test Driven Development methodology and using it in .net with vb or c#. http://www.bbits.co.uk/Services/training/?tdd  If you have not heard of TDD before check out these resources: http://www.testdriven.com/ - community site http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestDrivenDevelopment - Kent Beck http://www.franklins.net/fnetdotnetrocks/dotnetrocks.aspx?showid=68 - .Net Rocks show that talks about TDD  

Dino has put together a great article : "Rearchitect Your Web Applications for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0" in MSDN.  Bottom line: ASP.NET 2.0 comes with a full bag of new goodies and features to write better applications, possibly faster. So migrating to 2.0 is definitely going to be a great experience for most developers; the point is, how seamless will this migration be? Definately worth a read.

If you have ever wondered what the effect of leaving debug="true" is on your application when you deploy, check out this excellent article and then make sure you don't do it again! http://www.aspnetresources.com/articles/debug_code_in_production.aspx  

bbits have updated their web services training course to include WSE 2.0 Take a look here: http://www.bbits.co.uk/Services/training/default.aspx?webservices