Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit

Microsoft released a nice training kit (~126MB) (it's a real treasure!) for the latest technologies.

This package covers a bunch of technologies and includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

• Visual Studio Tools for Office
• Visual Studio Team System
• Application Lifecycle Management
• C# 3.0
• VB 9.0
• LINQ
• WPF
• WCF
• WF
• Silverlight
• ASP.NET
• AJAX
• CardSpace
• Mobile

 

Download here.

Astoria CTP Refresh for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

The Astoria team has just released a refresh of the Astoria Prototype CTP to work with Visual Studio Beta 2 and the Entity Framework Beta 2.
The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download.
This CTP is a refresh of the May CTP/Prototype bits recompiled so they run with Visual Studio 2008/Entity Framework Beta 2.
You can visit the Astoria Team Blog for more information.
Technorati Tags: Astoria, Visual Studio 2008

The post also avalable at: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/maordavid/archive/2007/09/18/astoria-ctp-refresh-for-visual-studio-2008-beta-2.aspx