I know I am slow but I did not know we had a great set of resources for learning SharePoint but if you are looking to get in to doing any level of development on SharePoint check out www.MSSharePointDeveloper.com. There are Virtual Labs, Quick Start guides, Webcasts and more of a wide range of topics around SharePoint development.

Last week I presented to to about 30 to 40 people in Irvine about developing applications for the Mobile platform using the Compact Framework. The audience was great, lot's of good questions and interactions, I had promised to post all the content after the class and while this fulfils the terms of that statement I am sorry it has take me this long.

There are still some Mobility Metro events scheduled see Loke Uei Tan's blog entry More Mobility Metro events for more information. I talked to Loke this week and he has assured me we will be doing more of these events in a few more months as well.

Wan to get up to speed on on .NET 3.5 (I know I do!) the Microsoft Corporate Platform Evangelism team released the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit it has information on:

You can think of this kit as a CTP it's not to where the team wants it to be but there are a lot of people asking for this type of resource so they decided to release it now.

If you have not figured it out I live the MSDN Virtual Labs, they are a quick easy way to lean about stuff with little impact to your system. A few new labs were recently released, use them in good health.

What’s new in C# 3.0?
What’s new in Visual Basic 9?
Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008

I know that more people in the world know Scott Mitchell than know me but for the few of you that may not know this he is going to be doing a class as described below:

ASP.NET Black Belt Training - Saturday, April 21st, 2007

San Diego, California

Cost: $199 (good through March 31st; afterwards, $299)

Overview: Learn a variety of real-world tips, tricks, and techniques for building data-driven ASP.NET 2.0 web applications in this one-day event with speaker, author, and consultant Scott Mitchell. Over the course of the day, Scott will walk attendees through the process of creating a feature-rich web application. Starting from scratch, the talk includes discussions and demonstrations on Membership, building an application architecture, techniques for code reuse, caching to boost performance, and many other topics.

Detailed Outline:

http://fuzzylogicinc.net/BlackBelt/Outline.aspx

Signup/more information:

http://fuzzylogicinc.net/BlackBelt/Default.aspx

The best part of getting to hear Scott is all is points are extremely real world!

I know I have bloged about Virtual Labs in the past but now all of the .NET 3.0 labs are done including the Core Features of Windows CardSpace all of the labs are great. If you are a .NET developer this is the way to get up to speed quickly on the .NET 3.0 platform.

I would be interested to here of your experiences with the new 3.0 tools.