Actually I'm reading the "Smart Client Architecture and Design Guide" released on p&p @MSDN. Because of Chapter 6: Using Multiple Threads I'm trying to dig deeper into threading. At MS Research I finally unearthed "An Introduction to Programming with C# Threads".

This article discusses:

• Common design patterns used in .NET Framework classes
• Patterns used to implement the ASP.NET programming model and request pipeline
• How patterns make programming tasks faster and easier
  

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/migration/upgrade/default.aspx has a load of information dealing with upgrading issues from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0.

Martin Fowler has a great cataloge of links to Pages dealing with Patterns in Enterprise Software.

Alex Homer wrote a series of articles about using XML (read: reading, writing, loading and persisting) in .NET Framework 2.0 based on beta 2 bits.

In his blog posting "VS 2005 XML Editor and Code Snippets" Stan Kitsis shows some really cool features of the new XML Editor that ships with Visual Studio 2005 when using Code Snippets.

Just read about the minimum system requirements for the VSTS VPC Image available at MSDN Subscribers Download at Rob Caron's Blog - seem's I have to buy a new notebook...or just use the tools Chris introduced at his TechTalk.

Btw: The slides, demos and links from Chris' TechTalk can be downloaded here.

You're using Web Services?

Thinking of Security?

Want to rely on Web Services Security best practices?

Just visit the Service Orientation Patterns Workspace at GotDotNet.

Not to forget: There's a pattern's and practices Community at GotDotNet.

New Recommendations for Using Strings in Microsoft .NET 2.0 - all said ;-)