I just had the opportunity to attend a webcast presented by Scott Hanselman entitled “MSDN Architecture Webcast: Introduction to Programming Hardware with the .NET Framework 2.0“.  What a cool presentation., Scott was up to his usual great form when it comes to presentations, despite a few sharing glitches which were easily ignored.

Scott touched on many things new to .NET 2.0 most notably interfacing with serial ports.  Additionally, he addressed using USB devices.  His demos (which are fully available online) included receiving information from a USB GPS device (the one included with Streets and Maps), pushing data to an LED (in this case, showing what Media Player is playing), using a USB Wireless Security FOB, using WIA (Windows Image Aquisition) to receive images from a WIA-enabled webcam, and more.

If you missed it, it should be available in a recorded form on Microsoft's site within 24 hrs.

Thanks, Scott!