For most of this year, I've been giving presentations and teaching classes on various aspects of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. In my consulting role, I've been constantly presented with problems that, while definitely solvable with current tools, simply screamed for the new products. Alas, like most of you, I haven't been in a position to use these tools in a production environment. Now the wait is over. By the time you read this, production versions of both products should be available to the general public. Now we all need is to help each other learn how to make the best use of the new and improved features that these products provide. That's where .NET Developer's Journal comes in.