Free Developer E-Learning Courses Available

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03/21/2007

**This free training has expired. There are still some great resources on https://www.microsoftlearning.com , so check it out nonetheless! **

To be completely fair, I totally recycled this from my good friend Dave Bost's blog: https://davebost.com/blog/archive/2007/03/20/Free-Developer-E_2D00_Learning-Courses-Available.aspx

As part of the evangelism team, and an advocate for developers tools, I am helping to spread the word to our development community about access to the free resources and training materials. For a short time only (April 15^th to be exact) you have the opportunity to register to receive up to 4 of our best developer focused training modules found at https://www.microsoftlearning.com. Sadly, nothing exists yet for Visual Studio Team System or Team Foundation Server (and we are working on this), but lots of other cool topics are covered.

Here are the steps to take advantage of this great opportunity…

1.) Go https://www.microsoft.com/learning/access

2.) Input your access code: (The code is case sensitive)

3.) ACCESS CODE: 6841-USDPEMW-5316

4.) You will be prompted to sign-in using a valid Microsoft Passport ID. If you already have a profile on microsoft.com, use that Passport ID. If you do not have a Passport ID click “Register” to create one.

5.) From the “Thank You” page, click on My Learning to see the list of available courses.

6.) For E-Learning, click on a course title to launch the offering.

a. You will then be presented with a description tab and a content tab. Read all the course requirements and description.

b. Please note: Review the “system requirements” tab to be sure your computer is properly configured to access virtual labs.

c. From the “Content Tab”, click on a lesson to begin training.

7.) When you return to the site, please click on the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/learning/mylearning and sign in using your Microsoft Passport ID. Then click on “My Learning” to access content and continue your learning path.

The courses available include the following…
Upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0
Collection 2562: Getting Started with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 for Visual Basic® 6.0 Developers

Data and XML
Collection 2541: Core Data Access Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005

Collection 2542: Advanced Data Access Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005

Windows

Collection 2546: Core Windows® Client Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005

Collection 2547: Advanced Windows® Client Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005

Web

Collection 2543: Core Web Client Programming with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005

Collection 2544: Advanced Web Client Programming with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005

Distributed Applications

Collection 2548: Core Distributed Application Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005

Collection 2549: Advanced Distributed Application Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005