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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit October 2011 Release

Microsoft released their first Training Kit for the upcoming Visual Studio 11.

“The Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit includes hands-on labs to help you understand how to take advantage of the variety of enhancements in Visual Studio 11 and the .NET Framework 4.5, how to support and manage the entire application lifecycle and how to build Windows Metro style apps.”

Instructions

There are two files you can download to install this Training Kit:

  • The file VS11TrainingKitOctober2011.Setup.exe will install the entire training kit, After downloading this file, you do not need an Internet connection to install the files. Download and launch the self-extracting package. The Training Kit will uncompress to the selected folder and launch a HTML browser for the content.
  • The file VS11TK_WebInstaller_Preview.exe provides you with the ability to install all or only some of the training kit. Download and launch the self-extracting package. Then select the labs you wish to install. You can rerun the installer to add labs in the future. This installer requires an Internet connection.

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27738

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