101 LINQ Samples

Microsoft Provides LINQ Samples for developers, it helps us to start LINQ Easily.

• Restriction Operators
  
• Projection Operators
  
• Partitioning Operators
  
• Ordering Operators
  
• Grouping Operators
  
• Set Operators
  
• Conversion Operators
  
• Element Operators
  
• Generation Operators
  
• Quantifiers
  
• Aggregate Operators
  
• Miscellaneous Operators
  
• Custom Sequence Operators
  
• Query Execution
  
• GetProductList code
  
• Join Operators

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit

SQL Server 2008 R2 offers an impressive array of capabilities for developers that build upon key innovations introduced in SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit is ideal for developers who want to understand how to take advantage of the key improvements introduced in SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 in their applications, as well as for developers who are new to SQL Server. The training kit is brought to you by Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism.

Overview and Benefits
The training kit offers the following benefits:
1. Learn how to build applications that exploit the unique features and capabilities of SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
2. Provides a comprehensive set of videos, presentations, demos and hands-on labs
3. Contains new content for developers who are new to SQL Server.
4. Contains new content for SQL Server 2008 R2.
5. Contains all of the existing content from the SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit.
Easy to download and install.

Download SQL2008R2UpdateForDevsTrainingKit.Setup.20100609.exe

Reference: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fffaad6a-0153-4d41-b289-a3ed1d637c0d

Windows Mobile Hands-On Labs

Dear friends,


If you want to learn about Windows Mobile application development, the “Windows Mobile Hands-On Labs” will help you.


Have a look at this link. http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/windowsmobile/bb264328(en-us).aspx

SharePoint 2010: Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic

Microsoft released the hands-on lab manuals for SharePoint 2010 to get started learning SharePoint 2010 development. they provided 10 hands on lab manuals, each one is available in C# and VB.NET

Hope it helps you to learn about SharePoint 2010.

Download 10 Lab Manuals from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#filelist

Silverlight 4 Training Kit - Download

Microsoft Released "Silverlight 4 Training" Setup kit, Version 1.0.1 and Published on 1/27/2010, It Includes the Following

*. Hands-on-labs

*. A video and

*. A whitepaper

These are all designed to help you learn about the new features in Silverlight 4 focusing on three major areas:

1. Enabling Business Application Development,

2. Empowering Richer Experiences and

3. Moving Beyond the Browser.

Some of the new highly anticipated features includes

*. Printing

*. WebCam and Microphone support

*. custom right-click

*. rich text

*. HTML support and access to local files with trusted applications.

Download Silverlight 4 Training Kit

SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic - Download

Microsoft Provided a Hands-On Lab Manuals for SharePoint 2010. It helps you to get started learning SharePoint 2010. The following link contains Hands-On Lab Manuals for SharePoint 2010.


Download Hands-On Lab Manuals for SharePoint 2010



Have a look at this link, Start Learning SharePoint 2010. This link provides manuals in two different formats like XPS and PDF.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (July 2009)

Download SQLServer2008_BOL_Aug2009.msi

Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

SQL Server 2008, the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform. Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server 2008.

Books Online includes the following types of information:

• Setup and upgrade instructions.


• Information about new features and backward compatibility.


• Conceptual descriptions of the technologies and features in SQL Server 2008.


• Procedural topics describing how to use the various features in SQL Server 2008.


• Tutorials that guide you through common tasks.


• Reference documentation for the graphical tools, command prompt utilities, programming languages, and application programming interfaces (APIs) that are supported by SQL Server 2008.


• Descriptions of the sample databases and applications that are available with SQL Server 2008. You can download the sample databases from the SQL Server Community Projects and Samples page on CodePlex.

NOTE: Non-English installs of Books Online may encounter minor issues. To address these issues try rerunning the installation.

Download SQLServer2008_BOL_Aug2009.msi

Microsoft Silverlight 3 Offline Documentation

This package contains the developer documentation for Silverlight 3.

This document provides complete reference of the followings

• .NET Framework Class Library for Silverlight


• Silverlight Overview


• Getting started Silverlight


• Application and Programming Models


• Layout, Text and Input


• Controls


• Graphics, Animation and Media


• XAML


• Integrating Silverlight with webpage


• Types, Properties, Methods, and Events


• Data Access and Data Structures


• Networking and Communication


• Debugging, Error Handling, and Exceptions


• Deployment and Localization


• Performance


• Security


• General Reference information related to Silverlight.

Download Silverlight_Docs_7_28_09.zip

Hands-on Labs for Windows® Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. This download is a collection of hands-on labs for Windows Workflow Foundation. The HOL contains both C# and VB.NET versions of the labs to help .NET developers learn WF. These labs are suitable for a .NET developer with 6 months experience who wants to learn about Windows Workflow Foundation. Each lab is approximately 60 minutes of work. The download package includes lab manuals for each lab, pre-requisite files for the labs and sample completed solutions for each exercise in the labs. MSDN has more information about Windows Workflow Foundation.

This download comes in two flavors for download. The first download (WFHOLs.exe) is a set of 10 hands-on labs for WF development using .NET 3.0 in Visual Studio 2005. These labs start with an introduction to WF and explore intermediate and advanced WF topics and functionality.

The second download (WFHOLs-3.5.msi) is a set of 11 hands-on labs that have been updated for use with .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. This lab contains the ten labs for .NET 3.0, and includes an additional lab to demonstrate to the WF developer how to use the new Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) activities added with the .NET Framework 3.5.

Note: Using the .NET 3.0 labs with Visual Studio 2005 requires the release version of the Windows Workflow Foundation extensions.

Download "Hands-on Labs for Windows® Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET"

Hands on Lab of SQL Server 2005

Hi,

Have a look at this link.

Download Hands on Lab of SQL Server 2005

This link provides "Hands on Lab of SQL Server 2005" for the followings, and it is a downloadble document.

1. Data Transformation Services (DTS) Hands-On Lab Manual
2. Reporting Services Hands-On Lab Manual
3. Management Studio Hands-On Lab Manual
4. XML Features Hands-On Lab Manual
5. SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET Hands-On Lab Manual
6. T-SQL Enhancements Hands-On Lab Manual
7. SQL CLR Hands-On Lab Manual
8. SMO and Web Services Hands-On Lab Manual
9. Analysis Services Hands-On Lab Manual
10. Data Mining Hands-On Lab Manual
11. Database Tuning Hands-On Lab Manual

Hope it helps you!