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A bunch of cool Atlas content has recently been posted to the web.  Below are a few nice links to check out:

Scott Mitchell recently published part 5 of his nice series on using the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Roles features.  You can read the series here:

I've blogged a few times about LINQ and DLINQ over the last few weeks (and will be blogging a lot more about them in the future).  You can read my overview post on LINQ here, and my introduction to DLINQ with ASP.NET here.

One of the new extensibility features in ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to override and customize how page viewstate is stored and persisted.  With ASP.NET V1.x, viewstate is always stored in a hidden field within the ASP.NET page, and doesn't expose an easy way to place it elsewhere.  With ASP.NET V2.0 you can optionally choose to store it anywhere.  A built-in SessionPageStatePersister is even included built-in to the product if you want to store it on the server in session state.

Many thanks to the 1200+ people who showed up to my TechEd breakout talk today.  I had a blast and hope you did too.

If you are reading this, hopefully by now you've checked out both Atlas and the Atlas Control Toolkit. 

Frans Bouma is the creator of the very popular LLBLGen Pro O/R mapper for .NET.  He just posted a nice walkthrough showing how to use the new version of LLBLGen (which includes some really nice new ASP.NET datasource controls for UI binding) to perform the same scenario I showed in my DLINQ post last weekend. 

At TechEd this week Microsoft is going to be showing off the new VS 2005 Team Edition for Database Professional tool which is now part of the Visual Studio Team System line of products.  You can learn more about it here.  The first CTP build will be available to MSDN subscribers on June 11th.