Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit - November Preview is now Available

The November preview of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit is now available for download.

This preview includes the following content:

Presentations

• Overview of the .NET Framework 4.0
  This presentation goes over the new technologies and enhancements being made in the version 4 release of the .NET Framework.
  
• Overview of the Visual Studio 2010
  This presentation covers is a high-level over of the value propositions for Visual Studio 2010 and a walkthrough some of the great features being added to the IDE.

Hands-on-Labs

• Visual Studio 2010: Office Programmability
  In this lab you will see how new features in Visual Studio 2010, C# 4.0, and Visual Basic 10 make it easer to develop applications leveraging Microsoft Office. Additionally, you'll see a number of other powerful features which speed other elements of Office development.
  
• Visual Studio 2010: Test Driven Development
  Visual Studio 2010 brings with it several enhancements to help cut development friction and enable the developer to focus on the task at hand: writing high-quality code. In the following exercises we'll highlight several of the new features that the TDD developer can use to enhance his/her development cadence. Visual Studio helps your cadence by cutting the number of keystrokes to accomplish frequently performed tasks, speeds navigation through your solution, and enables you to use test frameworks other than MSTest.
  
• Parallel Extensions: Building Multicore Applications with .NET
  Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform (PCP) is providing tools enabling developers to leverage the power of Multicore processors in an efficient, maintainable, and scalable manner. Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework brings several important concepts into this toolset. In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to parallelize an existing algorithm by using the static Parallel helper class, create and run Tasks, use the Future<T> class to create and run Tasks that return a value and use Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) to optimize LINQ queries to exectue in a parallel environment
  
• Introduction To Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
  The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) allows developers to provide hooks into their .NET applications for extensions by first and third parties. MEF can be thought of as a general application extension facility. In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to define extensibility points for components, perform conditional binding and component creation and import extended assemblies while an application is running.
  
• ASP.NET AJAX
  In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to leverage new client-side templates to easily bind data to your UI, use the DataView control to render data on the client, extend the template engine by creating custom Markup Extensions, and declaratively instantiate behaviors and controls
  
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
  ASP.NET Dynamic Data MVC allows developers to create web based applications that dynamically create pages based on the application's data model. ASP.NET Dynamic Data MVC provides scaffolding and templates that are easily customizable and extensible to reflect the custom functionality required for a solution. In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to use Dynamic Data MVC to easily render data over forms and then to easily create your own views and enforce data validation.
  
• Intro To Project "Velocity"
  In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to install and configure Velocity, program against Velocity's API and use Velocity's SessionState provider with ASP.NET.
  
• Intro To F#
  This Hands-On Lab is comprised by the following exercises. Examine the basic F# types including tuples and functions. Discover how the "let" keyword allows values to be bound to identifiers. See that in F# funcations are the same as any other value, and are handled the same way. Demonstrate how this allows advanced langage features such as parially-applied or "curried" functions. Discover how F# lists are built and the power that can be achieved by F#'s "Head + Tail" approach. Demonstrate the powerful pattern matching and recusion capabilities of F#. Demonstrate the power and usefulness of discriminated unions in F#.

Enjoy!