The MSDN Community Distribution program has put out another developer CD in their mostly-bimonthly series of training programs. The community distribution was designed to increase the availability of development resources to those in emerging countries, but anyone can download and use the content.

The June 2009 edition covers: an introduction to .Net 4.0, new features in Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, an introduction to SQL Server 2008 devlopment, Windows 7 user interface features, and an introduction to SQL Server Integration Services.

The last few past releases are:

March 2009: Highlights of MIX 09, Microsoft Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP, ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2, Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 Data Access, Microsoft Silverlight and WPF, Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework, Using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to Build Cloud Services

January 2009: Overview videos of Silverlight 2.0, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Windows Presentation Foundation, how to Build an Office Application with Visual Studio Tools for Office and how to Create a Dynamic Web Application with ASP.NET 3.5, Windows 7 Developer Guide v1.2, Engineering Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 Developer Features and a case study on extending HPC capabilities

November 2008: ASP.NET 3.5, Windows 7 Developer Guide,Video Teaching on Windows Communication Foundation, Free E-book Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2, 2007 Microsoft Office Developer Help files and Help files for Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, Project, SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Script