Microsoft Training Kits

Microsoft has been releasing some Training Kits for the technologies that are running on market today. I’ve found some of them and the links are below:

SharePoint 2007 Training Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=673dc932-626a-4e59-9dca-16d685600a51&displaylang=en

Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1C333F06-FADB-4D93-9C80-402621C600E7&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=8BDAA836-0BBA-4393-94DB-6C3C4A0C98A1&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en

SQL Server 2008 Training Kit http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?familyid=E9C68E1B-1E0E-4299-B498-6AB3CA72A6D7&displaylang=en

ASP.NET MVC Training Kit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1E0BE0B2-910A-4676-9F3A-41E4D9C0FC08&displaylang=en

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=355c80e9-fde0-4812-98b5-8a03f5874e96&displaylang=en

Hope you would find these useful.

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