Free online .NET Training, get them while they're hot!
The Microsoft E-Learning web site is offering 4 free .NET courses.
Course 2913: Creating Your First Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application
Summary: This three-hour online course covers the entities that form the foundation of Web applications written with ASP.NET 2.0. This course is a great starting point for anyone who has not worked with Visual Studio 2005 or ASP.NET 2.0 before.
Audience: Developer
Available Offline: Yes
Price: $44.99 NOW FREE, 1-year subscription
Summary: This three-hour online learning course teaches the Visual Basic 6.0 developer about the .NET Framework 2.0 including the Common Language Runtime, the Common Type System, Garbage Collection and COM interoperability. The course also introduces the .NET Framework namespaces and base classes. This training is designed with the Visual Basic 6.0 developer in mind to allow for a simple transition to the .NET Framework.
Audience: Developer
Available Offline: Yes
Price: $44.99 NOW FREE, 1-year subscription
Summary: This 2-hour workshop describes how to create Windows® applications that can run tasks in the background. It also describes how to use asynchronous methods and other features of components that support the Asynchronous Pattern for Components.
In the lab, you will create an application that loads a bitmap asynchronously and performs arithmetic calculations on a background thread.
Audience: Developer
Available Offline: Yes
Price: $39.99 NOW FREE, 1-year subscription
Workshop 4260: Building and Consuming a Simple XML Web Service with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005
Summary: This 2-hour workshop describes the functions, components and usage of Web Services and reviews some of the optional technologies.
In the lab, you will create a Web service and client, modify Web method attributes and create a proxy class manually, deploy a Web service, debug and handle exceptions in a Web service.
Audience: Developer
Available Offline: Yes
Price: 39.99NOW FREE, 1-year subscription
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