学习微软技术最基础的平台是MSDN网站，微软发布大量的教学视频以及教程文章在MSDN网站，分享各个方向开发人员的经验和心得，本篇汇总目前最流行的微软开发技术培训课程，希望对新手有所帮助。
Windows Phone “Mango”版培训课程
解释：The next version of Windows Phone (codenamed “Mango”) will ship later this year. Mango offers a lot of new capabilities for developers to create even better, more immersive user experiences on Windows Phone. This course will give you hands-on experience with important developer features in Mango.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
·Get more out of the hardware with new APIs for compass, gyro, camera and a virtual motion sensor
·Take advantage of the new multi-tasking capabilities such as fast app switching, background agents, alerts and reminders
·Improve integration with the phone by using live tiles, Bing search extras, Bing maps, and the new calendar and contacts APIs
Windows Azure云平台培训课程
解释：The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric. The May 2011 update includes updated hands-on labs with latest changes in the management portal, the AppFabric Cache Service and Windows Azure CDN.
Silverlight 4微软官方培训课程
解释：The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper that explains all of the new Silverlight 4 features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4. The business applications course includes 8 modules with extensive hands on labs as well as 25 accompanying videos that walk you through key aspects of building a business application with Silverlight. Key aspects in this course are working with numerous sandboxed and elevated out of browser features, the new RichTextBox control, implicit styling, webcam, drag and drop, multi touch, validation, authentication, MEF, WCF RIA Services, right mouse click, and much more!
Visual Studio 2010和.Net Framework 4培训课程
解释：课程详细介绍和演示Visual Studio 2010开发工具使用方法以及新功能。
Windows 7培训课程
解释：Welcome Windows Developers! We are excited to tell you about Windows 7 and want to get you up and running as quickly and easily as possible.
This Training includes presentations, videos, hands-on labs, and our best links to give you an easy transition into Windows 7 so you can quickly take advantage of all its innovations.
Have fun!!!
Office 365 Developer培训课程
解释：The Office 365 Training Course contains developer focused presentations, self-paced labs and links to key resources to help you build solutions that leverage SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. In Office 365, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 and Lync Server 2010 are hosted in Microsoft cloud datacenters to provide collaboration and communication as software-as-a-service (SaaS). Using this course, you’ll learn how to build collaborative and communication focused cloud solutions that run in Office 365 using Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework.
Office 2010 Developer培训课程
解释：Office 2010 is a broadly extensible platform for building Information Worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy. The Office 2010 Developer Training Course includes videos, presentations, hands-on labs and source code. This content is designed to help you get started developing solutions, from Add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs), using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform.
SharePoint 2010 Developer培训课程
解释：SharePoint 2010 provides the business collaboration platform for developers to rapidly build solutions using familiar tools while leveraging a rich set of out of the box features. Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 make developers more productive and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server delivers support for application lifecycle management. Developers can integrate Line of Business data in SharePoint 2010 with read/write capability delivered by Business Connectivity Services. Sandboxed Solutions can be deployed to a shared hosting environment to limit the impact of unpredictable code to the other applications in use.
SharePoint and Silverlight培训课程
解释：该课程详细讲解SharePoint 2010结合Silverlight开发技术应用实例。
Unified Communications "14"培训课程
解释：Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provide the communication platform for developers to rapidly build solutions that integrate and extend communications into their business processes based on familiar tools and skills. This Unified Communications "14" Training Kit provides deep technical training on all aspects of the Lync Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2010 SDKs to give developers the skills they need to be productive developing communications driven business processes.
Identity培训课程
解释：Claims-based identity is a simple but powerful way of handling identity and access for your web sites and web services, whether you work on-premises or you are targeting the cloud. The videos and hands-on labs in the Identity Developer Training Course will show you how to take advantage of technologies such as Windows Identity Foundation and the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service for easily solving authentication, authorization and identity-driven personalization challenges. As you go through the course you will soon discover that claims-based identity equips you with skills that can be reused for securing a wide range of application types, from ASP.NET websites to WCF web services.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence商业智能应用培训课程
解释：The SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course (SQLInsights) will help you learn how to build your first Microsoft Business Intelligence solution. SQLInsights is a great resource for developers, consultants and evangelists who need to learn the basics of how to build solutions that deliver integrated reporting, analytics and dashboard experiences. It contains a rich set of videos and hands-on labs that are perfect for self-paced learning.
Windows Server 2008 R2开发人员基础培训课程
解释：Windows Server 2008 R2 builds upon the exceptional legacy of Windows Server. Although R2 is an incremental release, it's not your "average R2". Key new feature areas include "many-core" scalability, virtualization, power management, web workloads, and enterprise network solutions. Learn about select R2 platform technologies and build your own integrated solutions.
Windows Phone 7开发培训课程系列
解释：Windows Phone 7 promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its great development platform upon which you can quickly and easily build games and applications. With a myriad of new devices, a powerful and immersive software platform, and a new marketplace to attract developers and provide easy access to applications, consumer demand for Windows Phones will be high, and developers will quickly adopt the Windows Phone platform to capitalize on this growing mobile marketplace. This Training Course will give you a jumpstart into the new Windows Phone world by providing you with a step-by-step explanation of the tools to use and some key concepts for programming Windows Phones.
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