Today, we're officially opening up .NET University for business!

http://www.dotnet-university.com

 .NET University is a way for anyone to get to a set of overview courseware for each of the 4 new technologies associated with .NET 3.0, which is at RC1 as of this post. Each lecture is 75 minutes, each lab is 30 minutes, so all content can be completed in a full day. It is not advanced content, but rather a technical overview of each new technology, with an introductory lab to help drive home the basic foundations of each technology.

 .NET U serves a couple of purposes for the community at large:

  • The content is free for you to download and learn .NET 3.0 on your own
  • The content is free for you to take and re-present to others, as long as you do not charge for it
  • The content is ideal for new speakers to present at Code Camps, as the slides have speaker notes at the bottom, to coach you on how to present the slide.
  • If you would like to teach all 4 sets of slides and labs to a developer audience, you can request to schedule a formal course, and we will provide you at no cost:a registration page, certificates of completion, and alumni shirts for those that complete the courseware.
  • I will be running formalized .NET University days throughout my territory in the Southeast US. Check the Current Schedule page, as I will be adding locations, dates, times, and registration links over the next few weeks.

I had a lot of help pulling this together, so let me say thank you to Brendon and Matt at DevCow for helping so much with the site and hosting the discussion forum, which we just kicked off today as well. Thank you to Mark Dunn of Dunn Training for the help with both courseware and website, and to Sean Gerety for all the help with the WPF lab content. And of course, my fellow DE, Joe Healy, who is going to help me run our inaugural .NET University at the upcoming Alabama Code Camp in Montgomery. Thanks all around, guys.