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 :)