Metro Training at Buenos Aires

I’m finishing today a whole week of Metro Training courses, covering VS 2010 and Silverlight 4. Here is a brief recap and some interesting resources for attendees and everyone else.

Monday to Wednesday:
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4

Most of the content of this course came from the kit we at Southworks built for DPE, which is available at Channel 9:

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/VS2010/

You can check a good part of the course online, including additional videos, or you can download the offline Training Kit which gets you the full content and also includes the Dependency Checker tool for every lab. Running this tool your system is inspected to see if you have all the needed components for this lab, and you get links to download and install any missing part. To make your lab exercise even easier, the tools usually installs a series of Visual Studio snippets also, so you save a lot of typing.

While I was teaching the course, MIX 10 was running in Las Vegas, and had the chance to comment some of the announcements, many related to our latest cool projects, like the launch of Windows Phone 7 Series, and the release of our WP7 training kit, also available at Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/

One of the topics that get people more excited was the ASP.NET Ajax Library, with all the client template stuff, and it was good that Microsoft just announced that they are investing more heavily in jQuery, as John Resig himself explains in this post.

Also related is the imminent release of the  Web Client Developer Guidance we are building with p&p.

Special thanks in this course for Debora Di Piano, who helped me sharing her incredible expertise in Team Foundation Server with the audience.

Thursday and Friday:
Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 4

I’m finishing this course today, although it is mostly run by two good friends, colleagues and real Silverlight gurus: Julian Dominguez and Ezequiel Jadib.

Julian is one of the masterminds behind the Web Guidance mentioned above, and he was also at the core of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight, also known as Prism (which is way easier to remember).

Ezequiel worked in many awsome projects too, and is the main author of the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor, which may be well one of the more complex Silverlight applications, used to edit video from many sources in complex scenarios like the latest Winter Olympic games. You can see a whole presentation Jason Suess about it from MIX 10.

Here is the content of the course, also in Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/

Of course, you can find many sessions on Silverlight 4 from MIX 10, as well as tons of other interesting stuff.

Another interesting resource we mentioned during the course, more oriented to designers, but also to the new devigner fellows, is the Design Toolbox.

Tags: .net, microsoft, silverlight, southworks, training, visual studio