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The eBay Selling Starter Kit for ASP.NET 2.0 provides a fully-functional sample that enables you to build a custom application to list items, monitor auctions, integrate eBay search and perform inventory maintenance. 

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

Gabe forwarded me a pointer to a cool utility he worked on which enables you to define and switch between multiple sites with IIS on Windows XP -- which out of the box only allows you to define one site (note: you can have multiple applications underneath the site -- but only one unique port or hostname combination).  The utility allows you to define multiple sites, and then quickly switch which site is "active" at a particular time.

Scott Mitchell has written a really great tutorial series on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Site Navigation system and features. 

A few weeks back I blogged about the new CompositeControl base class introduced with ASP.NET 2.0. 

I've heard lots of people rave about CodeSmith in the past. 

David Yack posted a great pointer to a community project where you can find a long list of cool MSBuild Custom Tasks that you can use within your VS 2005 build environments.  You should be able to use these with both the VS 2005 Web Deployment Project and with the VS 2005 Web Application Project option in VS 2005 when building ASP.NET 2.0 projects.

In addition to releasing the VS 2005 Web Application Project this past Friday, we also released an update to the VS 2005 Web Deployment Project -- which provides additional build support for pre-compiling and configuration changes with applications.  Here is a pointer to an old tutorial I wrote about it.