What's New in ASP.NET Data Access
ASP.NET version 2.0 continues to offer managed data access using ADO.NET and managed classes for XML. But ASP.NET 2.0 also includes new features to make data access in Web pages easier to implement and manage.More: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/06t2w7da(VS.80).aspx


The Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Model
This is a new web project option for Visual Studio 2005 that provides the same conceptual web project approach as VS 2003 (a project file based structure where all code in the project is compiled into a single assembly) but with all the new features of VS 2005 (refactoring, class diagrams, test development, generics, etc) and ASP.NET 2.0 (master pages, data controls, membership/login, role management, Web Parts, personalization, site navigation, themes, etc). More: http://www.asp.net/webproject


Abortable thread pools
I want to share an excellent article on Abortable thread pools in March 2006 edition of MSDN mag.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/03/NETMatters/