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Download the Windows Phone Training Kit Windows Phone 7 Series promises to be an amazing personal mobile phone with innovations in user interface and functionality, as well as a great development platform on which you can quickly and easily build games and applications.

Join Us for the Virtual Launch of Visual Studio 2010! Visual Studio 2010 launches in two weeks, and you can either join the global launch live in Las Vegas or join us at the virtual launch event. And if you still haven't tried Visual Studio 2010, go download the release candidate today.

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Learn to Develop Business Applications on Silverlight Channel 9 is offering a free Silverlight 4 Training Kit. The training kit includes a white paper explaining all of the new Silverlight 4 features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and an 8-unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4. Learn to work with sandboxed out-of-browser features, the new RichTextBox control, MEF, WCF RIA Services, and much more!

You Couldn't Make It to MIX10 - but You Can Watch Online Watch the keynotes and sessions. Explore the software that powers the Windows Phone 7 Series; learn about next-generation Web applications with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 and Internet Explorer 9; discover the future of Web design, user experience, and more.

DirectX 11 in Windows 7This video shows a code example of using a DirectX 11 API for animation. See the whole series Windows 7 in 7 Minutes! (Part 1) and get short, code-focused videos where you'll see how to take advantage of the great new features in Windows 7. Also, check out the msdev YouTube channel.

HTML5: Cross-Browser Best Practices Creating complex sites that work well across browsers is a constant challenge for developers. See how Internet Explorer 9 makes it easier to create Web sites using interoperable HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We'll show best practices you can use today to target a broad range of browsers. Plus: Install the preview of Internet Explorer 9!

Accessing Data in a Microsoft .NET-Connected Web Application Focusing on the different data features of the .NET Framework including System.XML, System.Linq, and System.Data, see practical examples of data access in Web applications and learn more about the latest advancements in our data access technologies, including insights into Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework 4, our highly productive ORM framework. Plus: See how you fare at the SQL Server Sequence and you could win one of 12 netbooks.

 

Building a Next-Generation Web Application with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 and jQuery A talk about building Agile Zen, a lean project management application. Plus: Microsoft will contribute to the development of the jQuery JavaScript library, and an ASP.NET MVC case study on Jwaala's online banking solution.

Download the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office (RTM) The Open XML SDK 2.0 simplifies the task of manipulating Open XML packages and the underlying Open XML schema elements within a package. The Open XML API encapsulates many common tasks that developers perform on Open XML packages, so you can perform complex operations with just a few lines of code. Download the RTM version or view it online.

Building Document Generation Systems from Templates with Word 2010 and Word 2007 Document generation systems are one of the most compelling uses of Open XML WordprocessingML. This article contains guidance for this scenario and links to MSDN articles and blog posts.

The Mono Project Mono is a free and open-source implementation of .NET that runs on Windows, UNIX, and Mac OS. In more than 5 years since the first version of Mono was released, the Mono project has continued to add support for new functionality, such as C# 3.0, LINQ, and Silverlight, and has continued to see adoption. Come hear about the latest developments and future plans from the founder of the Mono project.

Microsoft Silverlight Analytics FrameworkA new extensible framework for integrating Web analytics into Silverlight applications. See a video of the framework presentation from the MIX 2010 conference where the framework was introduced.