Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit

If you want to get a sneak peak on what’s coming up in the next version of Visual Studio, the Visual Studio 11 Training Kit is the no brainer choice.  The training kit includes hands-on labs to help you understand how to take advantage of the variety of enhancements in Visual Studio 11 and the .NET Framework 4.5.

Some of the topics included are:

• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4 – this lab shows how to use jQuery Mobile together with new MVC 4 features, to make a Web app work great across different mobile devices and desktop web browsers
• What’s new in ASP.NET Web Forms
• Page Inspector – a new tool that brings browser diagnostics tools to Visual Studio 11
• New Visual Studio 11 IDE features – including a whole lab for showing C++ development enhancements
• WCF Web API
• Async programming in .NET Framework 4.5 – showing the new async and await keywords
• Portable Class Libraries support
• Application Lifecycle Management features in Visual Studio 11 – see more of this in Brian Keller’s Blog (Microsoft Evangelist)

You can download the kit here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27738 or view it online here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/VS11TrainingCourse.

But if you want a quick preview, in this Channel 9 video, Robert Green walks through the different flavors of the kit and the content itself.