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Microsoft has made it's .NET 2.0 Framework beta 1 available. It's available here. In addition, you can get the SDK here.
In addition, you can also get Visual Studio 2005 here.
Microsoft seems to be targetting students with these betas.
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.