So I've taken to reading, and before you get excited and think that I've left the computer the reality is that I've acquired a number of books on .NET 2.0.  In fact there is a whole range of books on the early and beta versions of ASP.NET.  What I've found particularly lacking, at least in my part of the world, are good books on IDE and language enhancements for winforms developers.  However, I did recently pick up a book on VB.NET 2005 which runs through a whole range of cool features that are coming.  So, I thought that I would run through a couple of them....

Generics - strongly typed collections and methods
My Object - quick reference for the OS, File system, Printers, users and more
Operators - the ability to override operators for user defined types
Keywords - Global, Using and Continue make a comeback.
IDE Enhancements - Import/Export settings, F1 help enhanced
Panes - Application, Project, Signing, Reference, Compile, Resources and Settings
Class Designer - what more can I say?
Comments for VB.NET - well about time

So there are a few of the things to come.  There are a whole bunch more, but maybe I'll delve into them in a little more detail next time.