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Don't know what to do this Christmas vacation? Tired of eating turkey all day? Maybe checking out these interesting links may be interesting...

• Microsoft's new Silverlight Download center: after being in preview the last few weeks, Microsoft set their download center live this week. It's running entirely on Silverlight
• ASP.net AJAX controls tutorial: This tutorial examines the new Visual Studio 2008 Server Control and Server Control Extender. A compendium of tips, tricks and gotchas, it is a comprehensive tutorial that will provide readers with the skills necessary to start building advanced AJAX-enabled custom controls.
• Script# update: Nikhil Kothari's Script # got an update, now supporting VS2008. Go here to download.
• MultiUpload for ASP.net: An ASP.NET server control inspired from Google mail’s selection of file attachments and implementing ASP.NET Ajax Extensions 1.0. Go here.
• MVP bundle Screencast: ASP.NET MVP pattern with and without WCSF: http://www.pnpguidance.net/Tag/MVPBundle.aspx
• Dino Esposito on the ASP.NET 3.5 History features: http://www.pnpguidance.net/Tag/MVPBundle.aspx
• 2 new VPCs with TFS, VSTS 2008 and much more: http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/brian/archive/2007/12/21/49504.aspx
• And finally, 3 complete ebooks from MS Press: Introducing AJAX, Introducing LINQ and Introducing Silverlight, all completely free, via Tom's Blog.

Enjoy!