Now it's time to develop some really cool applications ;-)

In addition to my post regarding the availability of final release of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 at MSDN Subscriber Downloads:

The Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package is also available for download now.

"Mark Fussell discusses the driving goals for the WSE 3.0 release, how security best practices have been incorporated by introducing "turnkey security scenarios" and the relationship between WSE 3.0 and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), the future Web Services platform from Microsoft."

Happy Birthday, Bill.

Get the hottest information on SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 straight from the product teams:

Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 developer edition are available at MSDN Subscriber Downloads now. Pretty cool ;-)

Dino Esposito has written an article on Control development through inheritance based on ASP.NET 2.0 bits.

The pattern's and practices team has launched the Security Guidance Blog for .NET Framework 2.0.

Microsoft has released information on the new certifications around their developer products:

"If posting the hands-on labs wasn't enough, we've just hit the big red button on the session breakout content itself. Head over to the PDC05 post-show website to view all the sessions from the event. For each session, you can see both the presenter video and the slide / demo screens, and you can even right-click on the talking head video to increase the speed - viewing the sessions at a 1.6x speed is an intense, Matrix-style learning experience! (Site is looking a bit slow right now, but keep it bookmarked - it's already starting to get swamped.) We'll be mailing out this same content to attendees on DVD, so you can watch it at your leisure, and you can buy it on DVD to share around your office even if you didn't attend by visiting this site.

Some great, highly-rated Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Vista sessions that are worth a repeat viewing:

PRS305: A Lap around Windows Presentation Foundation (Rob Relyea)
PRS313: Integrating WPF with your Win32 / MFC Application (Nick Kramer)
PRS317: Beautiful Code, Beautiful Design (Robby Ingebretsen)
PRS319: Building Applications that Look Great in Windows Vista (Tjeerd Hoek and Jeff Pettiross)
PRS324: Using Data in Your WPF Applications (Namita Gupta)
These are just my personal picks, not an exhaustive list. The team did an incredible job of preparing and polishing their content - most people have no idea how many sleepless nights and soul-searching dry run sessions were needed to make this happen."

via Tim Sneath