Archive for August, 2008

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Aug

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit RTM

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 RTM! The release includes updated hands-on-labs as well as new presentations, demo scripts, and miscelaneous event materials.

The following features had their labs updated in this release:

  • ASP.NET AJAX History
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • ASP.NET Dynamic Data
  • ADO.NET Data Services
  • ADO.NET Entity Framework

The following features had labs added in this release:

  • .NET Framework Client Profile
  • WCF 3.5 SP1

The following features have supporting presentations included in this release:

  • ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 SP1 
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • ASP.NET Dynamic Data
  • ASP.NET Routing
  • ADO.NET Data Services
  • ADO.NET Entity Framework
  • WCF 3.5 SP1
  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1

The following features have supporting demos included in this release:

  • ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 SP1 
  • ASP.NET Dynamic Data
  • ADO.NET Data Services
  • ADO.NET Entity Framework

We also decided to include the one and two-day agendas that we used to run .NET 3.5 SP1 training events worldwide. Our goal was to make the kit provide an “event in a box”, where folks could download the kit and use the materials and agendas to run community events (i.e. code camps, user groups) that focused around .NET 3.5 Enhancements.

Links:

  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (here)

  • .NET 3.5 SP1 (here)
  • .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit (here)

We hope to continue receiving feedback from the community in order to improve the quality of our future training kits. If you have any questions or comments about the training kit, or its contents, please feel free to email me.