MSDN Subscriptions are an excellent solution people needing a full development platform (including development tools, client applications, servers, etc…). As an active MSDN Subscriber, you can take advantage of special offers from Microsoft or other companies . The list of offers below is taken at the...

MSDN Ramp Up is a free online learning program for developers. They’ve just launched three new ASP.NET tracks: “Web Development with ASP.NET”, “Move from ASP to ASP.NET”, and “Move from PHP to ASP.NET”. These tracks, along with the other currently offered ones (eg, Windows Mobile 6, SharePoint for Developers...

After the post on LINQ and Architectures , this time co-author Marco Russo of “ Programming Microsoft LINQ ” shares information on deferred loading in LINQ to SQL. The deferred loading of data in LINQ to SQL can operates at two granularity levels: the entity and the entity data member. LINQ to SQL allows...

Bart De Smet is back with a new sample of a LINQ query provider, this time targeting Windows Installer databases , or more commonly named MSI’s. (If you want to learn more about MSI’s, you can also watch the recording of “ Building setup packages with WiX ”.) Technorati Tags: MSDN Belux , LINQ , MSI...

This video provides an introduction for Visual Basic developers to LINQ . The language integrated query framework for .NET is a set of language extensions for Visual Basic and C# and a unified programming model that extends the .NET Framework to offer integrated querying for objects, databases and XML...

For a limited time, Microsoft Learning offers a free subscription to the eLearning clinic " Developing Enhanced Web Experiences with Microsoft® ASP.NET AJAX Extensions ". From the website: In this 2-hour clinic you will learn about the rich functionality that ASP.NET AJAX Extensions provides...

Wim Vanden Driessche mailed me earlier today about a new community blog called " IntoFactories.NET - A deep dive into Microsoft software factory technologies and tools ". It is maintained by some of his team members at Compuware Belgium. Here's what they say about their blog : Near the end of ...

In the past months, I've been writing a few posts on Microsoft certifications . Since there is more information available now, it's time to give an update: Free Second Shot offer has been extended From the website: " Due to popular demand, the Second Shot offer has been extended through June 30...

You might already have heard about our 3 day launch experience: On March 11 we'll celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. During this day, you'll get to see a keynote from Bill Hilf and an overview of "what" those products can mean to you (in non...

During this MSDN Evening you will get an overview of the language enhancements in Visual Basic 9.0 and Visual C# 3.0, as well as IDE enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. Topics covered include framework multi-targeting (using Visual Studio 2008 to develop applications running on .NET Framework 2.0, 3...

Recently we launched a pilot of MSDN Ramp Up , the online learning program to gain and evaluate your .NET development skills with Visual Studio 2005. Jenny, my colleague from Sweden, has created a Facebook group for MSDN Ramp Up that you can join if you are in any way interested in the program. If you...

In a series of 15 posts, Bart De Smet explores several of the new features in Visual Basic 9 . These are the different posts with the topics he discusses: Implicitly Typed Local Variables Extension Methods Object Initializers Anonymous types Lambda Expressions Expression Trees Partial Methods Nullable...