There's the first of a new series of articles about the STL.NET that's part of Visual C++ 2005 written by Stan Lippman and published here

It's interesting stuff - personally I need to think a little bit more about Stan's comment on the generic collections that are already in .NET framework 2.0;

"The original design pattern of STL, invented by Alex Stepanov, separates algorithms and containers into separate domain spaces. Thus, one can add to the set of algorithms that apply to all containers, or, one can add to the set of containers to which the algorithms can be applied. The Generic library is a more conventional container model."