So it must have slipped my mind, but I completely forgot to mention that I run the Perth .NEt Community of Practice (aka user group) and that anyone visiting Western Australia - and yup we are back to sun filled days as summer draws near - should definitely take the time out to drop in and attend a session.  We typically meet on the 3rd wednesday of the month and this month we have Jonathan Wells from the .NET Compact Framework team giving a presentation (see www.perthdotnet.org).

On more interesting matters, I finally got a sucessfully installed version of the VS.NET beta refresh (available from MSDN subscriber downloads).  It has all the features that were in beta1 plus the team system stuff (although you apparently need 3 machines to get it to run properly at the moment).  This aside here are the bloggable features that I (re)discovered in the first 30 secs of playing with it:

Document outline window - displays your winforms form as a tree so you can see where the controls are and what their parent is - takes the guessing out of both Z-order and parenting of controls

Testing - wow - this feature is cool, you can actually get VS to not only run your test cases, but also generate them (stubs only) and do code coverage analysis.

Class designer - not the ultimate UML tool, but does a reasonable job of laying out your classes in a visual diagram.

I am soooo looking forward to the release of Whidbey -  more features to come (I think that I will look at the mobile stuff tonight)