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The January CTP build of Atlas was made available today and can be downloaded from http://atlas.asp.net.  This is a pretty big release of Atlas that has a number of new and improved goodies (I'm planning on hopefully doing some blog posts walking through some samples soon).

Mike Pope has a great blog post tonight that walks through a common scenario I've seen asked a lot on http://forums.asp.net lately.  Specifically his post covers how to embed a DropDownList control -- whose ListItem values are databound against one database table -- within a FormView or GridView control, and have the SelectedValue of the DropDownlist be two-way databound against the results from a separate database table.

Last week I posted about a cool ASP.NET syntax highlighter that Wilco built that allows you to easily publish ASP.NET source online.  This works great for cases where you want to point to live source to generate syntax, although there are also sometimes needs to statically capture source formatting and embedd it in things like blog postings.

 May 8th Update: The final release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project is now live.  You can learn more about it here.

I'm heading over to Europe to talk about ASP.NET and Atlas at the Microsoft DevDays event in Amsterdam on March 7th and 8th.  Apparently we'll have about 2400 people attending -- which will be awesome!  If you are in the Netherlands and are interested in attending, you can find out more at this site. 

I just saw a pointer to a MSDN TV show you can check out on a new set of features (called My.Blogs) you can download for VB that makes it really easy to add blogging support to both ASP.NET 2.0 and Windows Forms application.  You can watch it here and you can download the My.Blogs library here.

Tess is a PSS escalation engineer for Microsoft and she has a really priceless set of blog posts on using some of the more advanced debugging tools that ship with .NET to better understand what is happening when things go wrong on the server (memory leaks, deadlocks, crashes, etc), identify root causes of issues in apps, and how to fix things.

I blogged about some of my favorite html source editor features in Visual Web Developer and VS 2005 a few months ago.  In case you missed it, you can read that post here.