Peter Griffith, President of the Adelaide .NET User Group sends me the following excellent news:
Once again ADNUG is offering 3 ACS badged 5 day courses in VB, C# and ASP in conjunction with Kaz with considerable discounts for members. (over 40% off rrp). For details http://www.acs.org.au/sa/newsletr/meetings/5day_courses.pdf Programming with Microsoft® Visual Basic .NET Course 2373B Monday - Friday 6 - 10 December 2004 Programming with C# Course 2124C Monday - Friday 17 - 21 January 2005 Developing Microsoft® ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET Course 2310B Monday - Friday 7 -11 February 2005
November 1-5 is 64-bit Webcast Week! There are 13 hour-and-a-half-long sessions on lots of different aspects of 64-bit development. Here's the complete list (all times are in US Pacific time (UTC - 8) - for Eastern Australian time just subtract 5 hours and add a day (ie they are 19 hours behind - daylight savings will have kicked in), so the first session is 4-5:30am Tuesday Sydney time. For the rest of you (like the Banana Benders), you'll have to do your own maths :).
These sessions (except for the first one) are all billed as being deep technical detail (level 300 is getting there, and level 400 is deep, hardcore technical)
Enjoy
MSDN Webcast: Welcome to 64-Bit Windows Computing: Introduction, Architecture and Roadmap—Level 100Monday, November 01, 2004 9:00 AM-10:30 AMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259871&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Taking Application Development to the Next Level: Design and Development for 64-Bit Windows—Level 300 Monday, November 01, 2004 11:00 AM-12:30 PMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259875&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Managed Code on 64-bit Windows platforms—Level 300Monday, November 01, 2004 1:00 PM-2:30 PMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259879&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Migrating Your Code to Run Natively on 64-Bit Windows: Insider Tips and Indispensable Tools—Level 300Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:00 AM-10:30 AMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259885&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Kernel Mode Drivers in Windows 64bit Systems: Migration and Development—Level 300Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:00 AM-12:30 PMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259890&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Going Native on 64-Bit Windows Platforms: Application Support and Migration from Existing Application Frameworks—Level 300Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:00 AM-10:30 AMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259904&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Going Native on 64-Bit Windows Platforms: Code Optimization Tools and Techniques—Level 300Wednesday, November 03, 2004 1:00 PM-2:30 PMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259907&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Making the Most of Enterprise Hardware: High-end 32 and 64 bit SQL Server 2005 Data Transformation Services—Level 200Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:00 AM-10:30 AMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259921&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Guest Presenter: AMD64 Architecture Drilldown: 64-bit Performance and 32-bit Compatibility—Level 400Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:00 AM-12:30 PMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259938&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: MSDN Webcast: Terminal Services: Scale up Windows Server 64 bit Extended Systems—Level 300Friday, November 05, 2004 9:00 AM-10:30 AMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259956&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: MSDN Webcast: Active Directory: Maximize Performance in Enterprise Deployments with Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions—Level 300Friday, November 05, 2004 11:00 AM-12:30 PMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259958&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: MSDN Webcast: SQL Server 2000: 64-bit for Data Warehousing—Level 300Friday, November 05, 2004 1:00 PM-2:30 PMhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259960&Culture=en-US
I've been on leave for a couple of weeks, so I missed the start of these webcasts. To be perfectly honest though, I'll probably watch the on-demand versions anyway. I'm not really a 4am kind of person. I think this gets 2 hours better at the end of this month with the advent of daylight time here and it finishing there (6am to 7am). If only I could watch them at the gym.
The blurb from the landing page says:
Tune in and learn how to build Microsoft Windows Forms applications and Smart Clients in Microsoft .NET. We will take you through all the steps to build an application, as we cover object oriented concepts and delve deep into .NET. During this series of webcasts, you will learn how to create rich user interfaces, access data, and see industry-proven ways to get Windows Forms applications to market quickly. And after viewing the webcasts, you can work hands-on in the MSDN Virtual Lab.