I have started studying and working with VS.NET 2005 & .NET Framework 2.0 from February 2006. The guys who had worked for .NET in previous few year can start VS.NET 2005 very quickly by 'Starter Kits', which contain templated samples, and some of them are intgrated with VS.NET 2005 directly. Thru that you will able just to start and learn a new project by few clicks with in few seconds.
VS.NET 2005 IDE has the built in starter kit 'Personal Web Site Starter Kit' which is very simple to learn.
Some other starter kits can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/starterkits/
and then i would prefer to quickly go thru the .net 2.0 quick start tutorials for new controls etc.
Lemme know whether this is useful for you.