14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has updated the resources that it’s offering developers looking for get themselves familiar with the latest iterations of Visual Studio and .NET Framework. An updated version of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit is now live on the Microsoft Download Center and up for grabs free of charge, just as it was the case with previous releases.
With the Training Kit developers can get their hands on presentations, hands-on labs, and demos detailing how to best leverage Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.
Following the latest refresh introduced, the kit offers a total of 50 labs, 22 demos, 16 presentations and 12 videos on the dev technologies from the software giant.
“For Windows Azure, there are two new Labs (Introduction and Debugging Application), two new Demo script for Hello Windows Azure Application and Deploying Windows Azure Services, One new presentation for Platform Overview and a new Video for What is Windows Azure,” revealed Microsoft’s Yasser Abdel Kader.
“For Silverlight, there are new Hands on Lab for Migrating Windows Forms / ASP.Net Web Forms Applications to Silverlight, Working with Panels, XAML and Controls, Silverlight Data Binding, Migrating Existing Applications to Out-of-Browser, Great UX with Blend, Web Services and Silverlight, Using WCF RIA Services, Deep Dive into Out of Browser and Using the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications.”
According to the Redmond company, the training covers a range of technologies, including: C#, Visual Basic, F#, Parallel Extensions, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight 4, ASP.NET 4, Windows 7, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, Managed Extensibility Framework, Visual Studio Team System and Windows Azure.
Last week Microsoft released the first upgrade to Visual Studio 2010, which can be grabbed both as an ISO image and as an installer from the Download Center.
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit March 2011 Update is available for download here. Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM ISO and Installer are available for download here.