I've been digging deep in to ASP.NET 2.0 the last couple weeks and I have been pleasantly surprised by a number of nice changes that probably didn't make the new features lists:
Url: http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/0001/01/0...
Url: http://nerddinner.com/blogs/atlanta/archive/200...
Url: http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showartic...
Url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/whidbey/beta2...
Url: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/
Url: http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switc...
Url: http://www.fileplanet.com/152834/150000/fileinf...
Url: http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,182186...
Url: http://www.neward.net/ted/weblog/index.jsp?date...
Url: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx...
Url: http://www.devcow.com/weblogs/To+Use+DataSets+O...
Url: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/12/news_61...
Url: http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,179167...