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Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit March 2011 update

With the large amount of updates and new tools that Microsoft keeps throwing at us, you sometimes miss one.

One recent updated that I just noticed, was an update of the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit.

You can download the Training Kit by going here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en

Or if you want to view it online, you can go here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/VS2010TrainingCourse

All content has been tested to work with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. The setup scripts for all hands-on labs and demo scripts have also been updated so that the content can easily be used on a machine running Windows 7 SP1.

And finally a list of the new content:

Silverlight 4
  • Hands-on Lab - Migrating a Windows Forms Application to Silverlight
  • Hands-on Lab - Migrating an ASP.NET Web Forms Application to Silverlight
  • Hands-on Lab - Working with Panels, XAML and Controls
  • Hands-on Lab - Silverlight Data Binding
  • Hands-on Lab - Migrating Existing Applications to Out-of-Browser
  • Hands-on Lab - Great UX with Blend
  • Hands-on Lab - Web Services and Silverlight
  • Hands-on Lab - Using WCF RIA Services
  • Hands-on Lab - Deep Dive into Out of Browser
  • Hands-on Lab - Using the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications
Windows Azure
  • Hands-on Lab – Introduction to Windows Azure
  • Hands-on Lab – Debugging Applications in Windows Azure
  • Demo Script – Hello Windows Azure
  • Demo Script – Deploying Windows Azure Services
  • Presentation – Windows Azure Platform Overview
  • Video – What is Windows Azure?

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