As i told ealier, i am currently working on Whidbey. I am trying out many new features in whidbey, mainly on asp.net. So i will try to post atleast one blog everyday about whidbey. Here are the few links which will be useful for you to start with whidbey.
MSDN Beta documentation url,
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/default.aspx
Though this documentation is not complete, you can use this for reference.
Beta QuickStart Tutorial
http://beta.asp.net/quickstart/
You can find lots of information here which you wont find it anywhere else in web. For example, i was searching for web part connection example in web for quite sometime. Later i found out a neat article/explanation on that feature here..
Other links,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/whidbey/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/whidbey/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/2005/
Just now came from gym, thought of posting about StopWatch Class which i have used today during my performance testing of generics(will post performance results later....) before i go to home.
StopWatch is a new class introduced in Whidbey used to accurately measure elapsed time. I was expecting this class from vb6 days...now it is available in framework itself. Previously if i want to measure any performance testing. Either i use DataTime.Now() or Enviorment.TickCount() to measure elapsed time between any operation. But using these methods, resolution can go maximum up to 500ms. But using StopWatch class, you can accurately measure elapsed time(you can measure up to nanoseconds) with few lines of code. For example,
Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
List<double> list = new List<double>();
sw.Start();
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
list.Add(<double>);
}
long addTime = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
sw.Reset();
Double d = 0;
sw.Start();
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 30; j++)
{
d = list[i];
}
}
long getTime = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
sw.Stop();
Start the stopwatch, measure elapsed time using ElaspsedMilliseconds() property. For more details about stopwatch class, check this beta msdn link (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ebf7z0sw.aspx).