MSDN Community Distribution June Release
Current June CD release focuses on important fundamentals: Introductory lessons for programming newbies in C# and VB, webcasts on Windows SharePoint Services ("WSS") and Visual Studio Team System ("VSTS") as well as a look at functional programming with F#.
Introductory Lessons
Our starter kit helps to get a foot in the door of today's programming world. Choose an Express Edition and learn how basic Windows applications are created. These lessons focus on the language, object-oriented fundamentals, the Integrated Development Environment ("IDE"), Windows-based user interfaces ("WinForms") and the .NET Framework class library.
Webcasts
The material about Windows SharePoint Services includes:
- Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.
- An Overview of Developer Technologies for Windows SharePoint Services.
- How to build Collaborative Applications with the Next Version of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.
- How to develop workflows for the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows SharePoint Services 2003.
- How Microsoft IT manages the World's Largest Windows SharePoint Services Deployment.
For Visual Studio Team System we cover the following topics:
- An Overview of Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects as well as Software Developers.
- Microsoft Solutions Framework for CMMI Process Improvement and the Standard CMMI Assessment Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI).
- Creating and Extending System Definition Models (SDM).
- Creating Graphical Designers with Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Tools.
- Extending Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server.
- Using Visual Studio Team System Process Editor.
- Load Testing with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers.
Academic Inspirations
Beside the mentioned F# compiler, we present MSR Sense - a networked embedded sensing toolkit, a computer graphics framework for rendering terrains and a technical paper on exploiting graph symmetry to compute the fastest mixing Markov chain.
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