I’m not even going to try to explain how amazing this band is. Just listen to “Boundaries” and “Sunlight” (here) and you’ll understand why I felt it necessary to post about them. If listening to those songs don’t do anything for you…then you probably have horrible taste in music, or you don’t have a soul, either way you lose.
Archive for April 16th, 2008
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Apr
ILab #5 - Kyte
I’ve received a lot of inquiries lately as to why my blog has been a virtual ghost town for two months, and instead of jumping back into the swing of things with a normal post, I’ve decided to make my online comeback with the announcement of the release of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit!
My team (Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism) has been working on this project for the last couple months and I’m excited to see it finally released. The kit is an addendum to the very successful Visual Studio 2008 training kit that was released back in November and is meant to serve as a structured learning curriculum for the upcoming framework enhancements.
Currently, the training kit contains six hands-on labs, made up of the following technologies:
- ADO.NET Data Services
- ADO.NET Entity Framework
- ASP.NET AJAX History
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET Silverlight controls
Instead of waiting until the kit was completely finished and perfectly polished, we’ve decided to be more agile with our release cycle and get iterations to the public quicker so that we can get feedback and change the direction of our content if necessary. Future versions of the kit will contain presentations, demo scripts, screencasts, and any other valuable resource we can possibly find!
If you haven’t had a chance to begin playing around with the latest bits for the aforementioned technologies then this could serve as a great motivation booster. Just think, if you start learning now, by the time they’re RTM’d you’ll be a master!
If you have any suggestions or questions about the material please feel free to email me.
