First Visual Studio 11 Training Course Released

The first version of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview tutorial has been released today. This course includes labs that will help you understand the innovations that we have included in Visual Studio 11 and the .NET Framework 4.5, how to manage the application life cycle in TFS 11 and how to create Metro style applications for a future version of Windows.


You can download the course at www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27738

The course includes:

Visual Studio development environment:

• Visual Studio 11 Preview

Languages

• Asynchronous programming in .NET 4.5 in C # and Visual Basic

Web:

• What's New in ASP.NET and Visual Studio 11 Preview
• What's New in ASP.NET and Web Forms 4.5
• Creating RESTful APIs Using WCF Web API

Application Lifecycle Management:

• Creating the Right Software: Generating Stories and Gathering Stakeholder Reviews with Visual Studio 11
• Flexible project management in Team Foundation Server 11
• Making Programmers More Productive with Team Foundation Server 11
• Diagnose application problems in production using IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 11
• Research Testing and Other Innovations in Microsoft Test Manager 11
• Unit testing in Visual Studio 11: MSTest, NUnit, xUnit.net, and Code Clone

Windows Metro:

• Lab building applications for the Windows 8 Developer Preview from the BUILD conference. Note: The course contains links to www.buildwindows.com/labs and does not include laboratory work itself.

You can download the course at go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9779649 . If you look carefully, you will see two files. A file of size 37 MB (VS11TrainingKitOctober2001.Setup.exe) contains all the content and laboratory work. A 2 MB file (VS11TK_WebInstaller_Preview.exe) contains the Content Installer application. This application at startup will allow you to select a specific laboratory and not download all contents. Also in the future, when updating content in the training course, you will have the opportunity to see new additions using this application and download exactly them.

Over the next month and a half, we will add new laboratory work.