About 1 year ago when I first started working with 3 Leaf we were _busy_ working on various aspects of prepping 101 sample applications designed to show off the cool new stuff in VS 2005/ .NET 2.0. I was too late to author any of these demos/sample applications (*sniff*), but I proofed/modified many of them, and I've toyed with some of them over the past year as they've slowly been modified to account for all of the subtle changes between various beta builds and the final RTM of VS 2005. (i.e. I know some of these samples intimately...too intimately.)

The funny thing though is that I never realized where they ended up. Which sucked cuz there've been a few times where I would have liked to link people to them in order to see a new technology in .NET 2.0 (or SQL Server 2005) modelled in a simple-to-grok fashion.

Happily I now can as I see from reading Dan's blog that they've been released for consumption!!!

Go check them out, they're some awesome resources that you're sure to love. (My favorites are the Data Access (which I spent the bulk of my time with) and Base Class libraries samples...)