Things i should learn with asp.net 2.0

So i have now been 2.0 for almost a month and i have learned a great deal.

I was a asp.net 1.1 programmer for about 3 years prior to that. But now, im up to my neck in 2.0 books and all over the net reading and learning about many different things.

i wanted to ask the gurus out there one more question:

What key areas should i study regarding asp.net 2.0 ? I mean, what are the new important changes with 2.0 that makes programming easier, or at least faster.

I have learned a great deal about TableAdapters and the new <asp:SqlDataSource> objects and they are great. But what other new features are worth really looking into? With 1.1 i was strict code-behind always writing long code from scratch. I realize this can sill be done in 2.0 but i mean, maybe i should evolve a bit. Reading Scott Guthries posts on 2.0 makes me desire to find new ways to do the same old things. But now im just feeling like im spinning my wheels. I know theres tonnes of new 2.0 features to use but i dont know where to begin.

Any advice on some specific classes or objects that have helped you guys do things faster in 2.0 (as compared to 1.1) would be amazing.

Thanks in advance,

mcm

You hit the most useful from my standpoint with the table adapters, I assume you are using the xml file version in the App_Code dir, and the sqldatasource. Also, check out the login, authentication, profile, roles, and membership functionality. For me and my application it didn't work, I had to use the old way of hard coding a lot of that, but if your site is on the low to medium difficulty scale of development, they could save you a lot of time. I found those objects only worked well if there were just a few levels of access. I also like the sitemap features which makes breadcrumbs and site map pages really easy. Master pages also make life much easier. Definately use master pages. This site is where I started while learning so if you haven't checked out the tutorials athttp://www.asp.net/learn/dataaccess/default.aspx?tabid=63 they were very helpful for me to start the transition. Hope that helps.