If you could not attend Tech·Ed 2006 in person (held in Boston at Microsoft's TechEd show in June), there are still a variety of ways for you to participate or access content. You can visit The Virtual TechEd site at http://virtualteched.com and the official TechEd 2006 site at http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006/default.mspx will be up through at least the end of July. Here you can find lots of interesting contents.
So Go and Get Out Of It!!!!

You can now download Virtual PC 2004 absolutely free. Microsoft is also offering the free download of Virtual PC 2007, with support for Windows Vista in 2007.
So go & get it at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc

To see Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 in action Click here for Demo

Visual Studio 2005 which has over 400 new features and with new Web and windows Controls, automated debugging, and lots more to the .NET and ASP.NET Framework.
which helps a developer to concentarte on the major development issues.

Microsoft announced .Net Famework 3.0 (the new technologies formerly known as WinFx), which has introduced four new technologies (Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows Cardspace).

But the good thing in these is that it uses the existing .NET Framework 2.0 and compilers which will help to run the existing code as it is developed using .NET Framework 2.0

Hence, .NET Framework 3.0 includes:

• The 2.0 Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• The 2.0 Base Class Library
• ADO.NET 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, Windows Forms 2.0
• VB 8.0 and C# 2.0
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
• Windows CardSpace (WCS)

This new framework represents the future of .NET development.