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I blogged on Friday about the first preview build of the VS 2005 Web Application Project support being released.

Brad from the Microsoft Learning team just pointed me at a cool offer.  Basically it allows you to take a 3-hour ASP.NET 2.0 Training course for free if you register for it before January 4th (note: you then have up to 90 days after you register to take it).

Right after VS 2005 shipped, a lot of people ran into "Package Load Errors" when trying to install and run the final release of the product.  These are often the result of having some left-over VS 2005 Beta or CTP bits that weren't uninstalled completely on the same machine.

Ting (one of the key guys on the ASP.NET Team) has posted an awesome blog post detailing all of the different techniques for doing Cross-Page navigation in ASP.NET, including: client-side redirects, server-side redirects, the new ASP.NET 2.0 cross-page posting feature, the new ASP.NET 2.0 multi-view control, and the new ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control.  In his post he includes a sample for each.

Fritz Onion has posted a good tip on how to handle complex data-binding expressions (for both ASP.NET V1.1 and ASP.NET V2.0).  This is a technique that I've used too, and it can help simplify your code quite a bit.

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

Someone on a listserv recently asked whether there was a way to figure out why and when ASP.NET restarts application domains.  Specifically, he was looking for the exact cause of what was triggering them on his application in a production shared hosted environment (was it a web.config file change, a global.asax change, an app_code directory change, a directory delete change, max-num-compilations reached quota, \bin directory change, etc).