The toolkit allows you to work with SQL Express, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005 databases locally, and then easily transfer your schema and data and install them into a shared hosting remote SQL Server account.

Tired of having html elements rendered by the built-in ASP.NET server controls and wishing you could use a pure CSS solution instead? If so, read on...

how to use a database to store localized resource content.

ASP.NET 2.0 makes control declarations much cleaner and easier to manage. Instead of duplicating them on all your pages, just declare them once within the new pages->controls section with the web.config file of your application:

look at the advantages and disadvantages of Batch calls, AJAX call timeouts, browser call jam problem, ASP.NET 2.0's bug in web service response caching, and so on.

The goal of this article is to cover all the major aspects of .NET 2.0 configuration, as well as expose some of the more closely guarded (read: undocumented...for whatever reasons) secrets that could save you a lot of hassle and time

Visual Studio 2005 learning resources