This site is a really great way to get familiar with Visual Studio 2005 features and capabilities.  The site offers a tour of Visual Studio Professional and Visual Web Developer.

The Visual Studio 2005 tour includes:

IDE Enhancements where new productivity features such as Snaplines, the Class Designer, SmartTags, Edit and Continue and various other new and improved IDE enhancements.

Language Enhancements where C#, VB, C++, and J# all receive individual focus in key areas of the tour where you can learn about new feature improvements such as Generics, Iterators, My, and various other language improvements.

Smart Client Development technologies including Windows Form development, .NET Compact Framework development, and Visual Studio Tools for Office development.

The Visual Web Developer includes:

SQL Express

Building Web Sites

Creating a Web Site

Adding a Web Page

Adding a Page Load Event Handler

Working with HTML

Data Bound Controls

Adding a GridView Control

Examining a SQL Data Source

Binding Data Bound Controls

Examining the HTML

Object Data Binding

Adding a Data Layer Class

Configuring the Object Data Source

Consuming the Object Data Source

Adding Update Functionality

Master Pages

Master Pages Overview

Creating a Master Page

Setting Up the Menu Control

Adding a New Page that Uses the Master Page

Converting an Existing Web Page to Use the Master Page

Page Output and SQL Dependency Caching

Overview

Page Output Caching

Setting Up SQL Server 7/2000 Dependency Caching

Using SQL Server 7/2000 Dependency Caching

Using SQL Express Dependency Caching

Authentication and Authorization

Overview

Setting Up the Login User Interface

Using the Web Site Administration Tool

Running Your Secure Site

Web Parts

Preparing to Add Web Parts

Adding Controls To Web Zones

Adding Editor Zones

Adding Catalog Zones

Geek Speak Sample Application

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