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Jump-Start Your Skills with Virtual Labs

Microsoft has long led the industry when it comes to supporting developers. Witness useful resources like MSDN, Channel9 and the nonstop parade of conferences and seminars designed to get coders up to speed.

Now, Microsoft has produced a series of what it is calling Virtual Labs: 90-minute long, interactive how-to sessions designed to help developers evaluate and master a variety of specific Microsoft products and technologies.

Virtual Labs cover a variety of categories, from languages like Visual Basic, C# and C++ to products like SQL Server 2005, BizTalk Server and, of course, Visual Studio 2005. Coverage also extends to functional categories like Security and Web Services. And good news: There's no installation required to work with these sessions.

You can learn more about the tutorials here.

Posted by Michael Desmond on 07/18/2007

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