.NET Courses Announced

More than 20 new courses will bring developers and administrators up to speed on .NET technologies in the coming year, Microsoft has announced. The new courses cover key concepts in the .NET Framework, .NET Enterprise Servers, and solutions built on .NET servers and applications.

Microsoft develops core material for the courses and sets expectations for what students will learn. The courses themselves are delivered by third-party instructors or self-paced learning programs. Some of the courses cover material that is tested by Microsoft certification exams.

Seven new courses on Visual Studio.NET and the .NET Framework cover topics such as ASP.NET (formerly ASP+, the successor technology to Active Server Pages); .NET assemblies (code components that are to .NET what dynamic link libraries are to Windows programming); the new C# programming language; and XML and related standards.

A set of nine new courses covers administration and deployment of .NET Enterprise Servers, including Application Center, BizTalk Server, Commerce Server, Host Integration Server, Internet Security and Acceleration Server, and SQL Server 2000.