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I'm about to head downstairs for my ASP.NET Tips and Tricks talk at ASP.NET Connections in Orlando.  I'm talking about and demoing a number of nice new things in ASP.NET 2.0 that make web development easier:

Paul just posted a link to a bunch of great MSBuild task extensions that you can use in both VS 2005 Web Deployment Projects and with VS 2005 Web Application Projects.  If you aren't familiar with MSBuild yet, you should definitely check it out -- since it provides a ton of flexibility for both build and deployment scenarios. 

I was chatting with someone at the MIX conference who mentioned he’d love to have an easy way to stay up to-date with all of the things Microsoft is coming out with in the ASP.NET space.  To help folks better track things I’ve decided to try and do a monthly “coming soon” post that outlines the list of things we are working on releasing from the team in the weeks ahead.

June 21st Update: Here is a pointer to even more content.

Jonathan Hawkins from the Atlas/ASP.NET team just posted a nice tutorial walking through how to build a map-based mashup using the Atlas Virtual Earth control and some custom web-services that serve up mountain information (note: Jonathan is an avid hiker!).  You can read and download his tutorial here.  You can also learn about the great Atlas Mashup Contest here (and win a free XBox 360!).

There are some excellent web-casts scheduled over the next few weeks that you should consider watching and joining (registration and attendence is free).  Some of them are being held by senior engineers on Microsoft.com, who will share tips and tricks about hosting one of the most heavily visited web-sites in the world.  You can learn more about the web-cast topics and register here.

Dmitry just posted an updated version of his RSS Toolkit for ASP.NET (you can read all about it in my previous blog post).