Speed up your skills
This post is targeting all the new guys who would be starting their career with the .NET platform, am personally not into printed books when it comes to technical subjects, i found out that there are a lot of start up tutorials in different categories that new .NET developers would love to know where they could get it
C#
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288436(VS.71).aspx
ASP.NET 2.0
http://www.asp.net/learn/dataaccess/default.aspx?tabid=63
AJAX Videos
http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid=63#ajax
Security How Tos
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms978512.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302415.aspx
Performance
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998530.aspx
.NET Data Access Architecture Guide
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms978510.aspx
Caching Architecture
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms978498.aspx
will try to get you alot of resources
keep enjoying :)