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I posted two blog posts last weekend about using LINQ to easily perform data access against a database.  Several people have asked me for more details on LINQ to SQL since then.

Workflow is one of the new core capabilities (along with WPF aka Avalon and WCF aka Indigo) being added in the .NET Framework 3.0 release later this year.  It provides an in-process workflow engine to process rules, a designer for VS 2005 to enable both developers and non-developers to define custom workflow processes graphically, and a new Workflow namespace to integrate these within code.  The official site to learn more about Windows Workflow Foundation can be found here.

September 3rd Update: I just stumbled upon an awesome XNA tutorial site that includes a lot of great tutorials on how to get started with the XNA game framework.  This tutorial, for example, walksthrough all of the code needed to build the classic Pong game with it.  And this tutorial talks about how to customize the "Spacewar" starter kit.

One of the highlights for me of my recent trip to TechEd NZ and Australia was the opportunity I had to create and present a new "Building Data Driven ASP.NET Web Applications using LINQ" talk.  LINQ is a super cool new technology, and is going to have an absolutely enormous impact on .NET developers and how they use data.  I had a lot of fun doing the talk, and people seemed to really like it (someone told me just before I flew back that it was the most highly rated talk at TechEd this year).

Joe Stagner has been busy at work publishing more Atlas videos on the www.asp.net website (click here for the full video listing). 

Many thanks to everyone in New Zealand who attended my "ASP.NET 2.0: Tips and Tricks" talk this morning. 

The Internet Explorer team maintains a really good blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie that I recommend subscribing to for useful information.