This two-day partner technical readiness event is designed to introduce developers to many of the new features in Visual Studio 2008. Now that Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008, it is time to start learning how to use these great enhancements in the applications you write and deploy. Learn how Visual Studio 2008 provides a compelling development environment for building rich client and web applications.

Topics include

• Introducing VS2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5
• What’s new in the languages? Visual Basic 9.0 & C# 3.0
• A closer look at what’s new in .NET Framework 3.5
• Introduction to .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
• Building Web Applications with VS2008
• Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX
• WCF Web-Centric Capabilities in Visual Studio 2008
• Introduction to Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0

Course Format

This course is presented with an equal mix of classroom presentations and hands-on lab exercises.

Prerequisite

• As a prerequisite of this course, students *must* already be working with Visual Studio 2005.

Dates and locations

Sydney	25 & 26 February
Melbourne	5 & 6 March
Perth	17 & 18 March
Canberra	31 March & 1 April
Brisbane	7 & 8 April

Price

$ 790 ex GST

Registration

Register on the Microsoft Events site at
https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=356298&linvitation