Wow, I blinked and summer is more or less over.  There has been much of the usual sound and fury surrounding the end of one fiscal year and the beginning of another.  This, combined with the inevitable re-organizations that take place, has the overall effect of re-prioritization of all the items that were on my "To-Do" list as well as uncovering an entirely new and different set of them.

Anyway, an update is in order for the developer courseware plans; I outlined the plan for Visual Studio 2008 courseware back in March and this hasn't really changed, except that the WF course is now 2-days instead of 3-days. 

I've added a 1-day First Look Clinic and Hands-On Lab that we are targeting for later this fall.  The point of this clinic really is to give those of you familiar with Visual Studio 2005 or earlier a chance to "kick the tires" and enhance the knowledge you may already have of this product, having read about in on MSDN and other places and perhaps downloaded the Beta 2 to try it out.

A further update from another post back in March is needed, too.  The Windows Mobile 6.0 developer courses will be ready to go by the beginning of November (I will post links to the syllabi as soon as they make it online).  The Managed Code course is 3-days in length and the Native Code is 2-days, and although the available exams are for Windows Mobile 5.0, completing these courses will certainly help you if you intend to take them.

Our revision for Course 2310: Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET is in design right now.  Since there are now so many more interesting additional pieces to developing web applications, I've re-titled it a bit more broadly to Developing Web Applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.  It will be completely updated to the newest Microsoft web development technologies, including modules on ASP.NET AJAX Extensions and Microsoft Silverlight.  This course will be available is regular classroom training as well as in our newest product, Microsoft Official Distance Learning (MODL) so you have a greater choice in scheduling.

There has been a change in our plans for Visual Studio Team System.  Right now we're in the envisioning process for a couple of courses: one will cover the Team Foundation Server exam objectives and the other will be a Visual Studio Team System survey course.  We will be firming up the visions for these courses over the next few weeks, so tune back in later....I will endeavor to make my posts a little more frequent (it wouldn't be hard to be more consistent than I have been, for sure).

That is the state of developer courseware for today.  There are other things in the works, as well as some other areas of interest I'm investigating, so stay tuned (and feel free to suggest areas you might find interesting....).