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Today I attended the NYC session of ASP.NET Exposed presented by Rob Howard.  While the “sneak preview” of Whidbey was very cool and very interesting (I can't wait to get my hands on it now) the presentation, in general, was introductory.  If you are a beginner and would like a taste of what ASP.NET can show you, I highly recommend you go because you can definitely check out some demos and grab a couple of tips.  I would not recommend anyone who as any experience with ASP.NET to attend any more than the Whidbey part of the presentation which amounts to about the last half hour.  (You can also pick up a copy of Microsoft® ASP.NET Coding Strategies with the Microsoft ASP.NET Team.) 

While I'm on this topic I'd like to express a major criticism I have with most presentations that have to do with ADO.NET and VS.NET.  Sure it's neat but most, if not all, developers who are attending these presentations are not going to use the drag and drop DataSets, Connections, etc.  We build data access layers.