The Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism team has released a revision of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit, updated to work with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1! The May Preview release includes updated hands-on-labs as well as new presentations.
The following features had their labs updated in this iteration:
- ASP.NET AJAX History
- ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- ADO.NET Data Services
- ADO.NET Entity Framework
Due to the incompatibility between Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta 1 and the Silverlight 2 SDK beta 1 release, the ASP.NET Silverlight controls lab that was available in the initial release of the kit, won’t be available in the May preview.
The following features have supporting presentations included in this iteration:
- ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- ADO.NET Data Services
New presentations will continue to be developed for inclusion in future iterations. In addition, demo scripts for each presentation will be created and added to the kit.
You can download the training kit here.
We hope to continue receiving feedback from the community in order to improve the quality of the kit’s contents. If you have any questions or comments about the training kit, or its contents, please feel free to email me.
questions:
1. what are differences in mvc labs between these two releases? i opened solution in vs and it seems these are now using entity framework for DAL
2. where can we install old april preview (i did overwrite when i installed may preview)
Hey Dragan,
The MVC lab that was in the April preview of the training kit was using the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview release, which is currently 2 releases old. The MVC lab in the May training kit has been updated to use the latest interim build that can be downloaded on Codeplex here:
http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=12640
Unfortunately the April release is no longer available. You shouldn’t have any problems with the May release as long as you have .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1 installed. If you run into any issues please let me know.
-JC
Thanks, JC
I use MVC interim build currently. I would recommend you to create some labs for MVC that use LINQ To SQL instead of Entity Framework.
Hey Dragan,
Thanks for the feedback. We’ll take that into consideration for the future training kit releases