Hat tip to Troy Hunt for the great pointer! Do yourself a favor and head over to Microsoft’s new Dev Essential Center and sign up right now. Microsoft has always had plenty of great free resources (I did a talk once on doing .NET on the Cheap and the state of OSS from Microsoft and the Microsoft community); additional programs like BizSpark for small business and DreamSpark for students have been around for a while.
What I really like about the new Visual Studio Dev Essential program is that it really is something for every developer.
And if you hurry.. you can get 6 months of access to Pluralsight training (sign up and activate before December 31).
OK.. why are you still here? Go, go now! Enjoy.
For those that also have a paid MSDN account…
While the free Dev Essentials account gives you access to the entire Pluralsight library for 3 months, a paid MSDN account will get you access to a sub-set of Pluralsight course for a whole year – or as long as your subscription is active. Here are the current 45 courses:
- Architecting Applications for the Real World in .NET
- ASP.NET 5: First Look
- ASP.NET MVC 5 Fundamentals
- Asynchronous C# 5.0
- Automated ASP.NET MVC Testing: End to End
- Azure AD for Developers
- Becoming a .NET Developer
- Beginning Automated Testing of Xamarin Applications
- Building a Site with Bootstrap, AngularJS, ASP.NET, EF and Azure
- Building and Securing a RESTful API for Multiple Clients in ASP.NET
- Building Cross Platform Mobile Apps with C#, Xamarin, and Azure
- Building Cross-Platform iOS/Android Apps with Xamarin, Visual Studio and C# – Part 2
- Building Cross-Platform iOS/Android Apps with Xamarin, Visual Studio, and C# – Part 1
- Building Highly Scalable Web Applications in Azure
- Building Web Apps & Services with Entity Framework and Web API
- C# Best Practices: Collections and Generics
- C# Best Practices: Improving on the Basics
- C# Fundamentals with Visual Studio 2015
- C# Generics
- Creating Custom Controls in Xamarin.Forms
- Defensive Coding in C#
- Designing a Hybrid Cloud in Azure
- Designing Fluent APIs in C#
- Diagnostic Analyzers in Visual Studio 2015: First Look
- Docker for Web Developers
- Enterprise WPF with XAML and C# from Scratch
- Getting Started with Entity Framework 6
- Getting Started with JSON in C# Using Json.NET
- Lessons from Real World .NET Code Reviews
- LINQ Fundamentals
- Load Testing with Visual Studio 2013
- Looking Ahead to Entity Framework 7
- Microsoft Azure for Enterprises: What and Why
- Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service
- OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Strategies for Angular and ASP.NET
- Plan, Create, and Deploy to Azure With Visual Studio Online
- SharePoint 2013 Fundamentals
- SOLID Principles of Object Oriented Design
- SQL Server: Building Simple Asynchronous Applications
- Test-Driven Development with F#
- Understanding Machine Learning with R
- Using TypeScript for Large AngularJS Applications
- Visual Studio 2015: Essentials to the Power-User
- Visual Studio Code
- WCF End-to-End
Either way – it’s a great deal – Happy Learning!
