Microsoft Innovation Days

Great Opportunity to learn the Microsoft Technologies.
Register for this event and you can learn Silverlight and AJAX in ASP.NET
For details click here.

Microsoft Virtual TechDays

Microsoft Virtual TechDays are back to give you another opportunity to get trained on the latest and in demand Microsoft technologies. You get the opportunity to learn and explore how Microsoft products and tools can help you quickly address your most time-consuming development challenges.

You can:

• Learn about the latest Microsoft tools and platforms from Microsoft technology experts

• Learn about how to extend your expertise on technologies that you work on every day

• Interact with the best-in-class technologists attending the event.

Topics which are to be covered are:

• Query Tuning with SQL Server

• Fundamentals of cloud services

• Introduction to Microsoft Strata

• Essential Business Server 2008

• Load Testing in VSTS 2008

You first need to register for this event on the Virtual TechDays website and download Microsoft Live Meeting to join the fellow developers, architects and project managers at this online event on November 24 - 26 from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM.

.NET 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005

If you want to use .NET 3.5 with Visual studio 2005 here is the way..

1.First of all you must have .NET 3.5 Framework installed in your computer.
If you don't have then download it here.
If your firewall restricts the download you can download offline Installer from here.

2.Now you require the Extension for Visual studio 2005 for Windows Workflow Foundation
you can download this extension here.

you can enjoy the functionality of .NET 3.0 in visual studio 2005

View Website in all browsers

Very useful for website developers
Now you can view your webpage in all web browsers.
Just click here and submit your webpage
and you can see your webpage in all browsers.

Free Books from Microsoft Press

You can get free ebooks from Microsoft....

Written by industry experts, Microsoft Press books deliver the accurate, from-the-source information that you need to take your skills and knowledge to the next level.

Free e-book offer

The free e-book offer includes chapters from three recent publications from Microsoft Press:

•	Programming Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo (ISBN: 9780735623910) This practical guide covers the intricacies of LINQ, a set of extensions to the Visual C# and Visual Basic programming languages.
•	Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 by Dino Esposito (ISBN: 9780735625273) Get the practical, popular reference written by ASP.NET authority Dino Esposito—now updated for ASP.NET 3.5.
•	Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2, Second Edition by Laurence Moroney (ISBN: 9780735625280) This guide describes how you can simplify the development and deployment of rich interactive applications (RIAs) by using Silverlight 2 tools with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Learn more about the free e-book offer, and sign up for the Microsoft Press Book Connection newsletter, which provides news about upcoming and recent releases, special offers, and additional information from those who know our books best.

Sign up to download the additional chapters!