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What are the most popular and highest quality training sources for ASP.NET 3.5. I am interested in both "boot camp" class room training and online self-paced training. I am interested in both training that can be applied to certification but also non certification based training in the following areas: ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, and web security.

The training should be geared to real world projects and not memorization. I am most interested to hear from Microsoft MVP's on the matter and those who personally have attended or scheduled such training.

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Ahmad Mageed
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I've never had a bad class from Learning Tree, and I've had a lot of classes. Most of them were bad.

quillbreaker
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I've had great luck with lynda.com . Their .net stuff is good, but I've found that their videos surrounding the .net framework (ajax, javascript, xml, etc) are GREAT. Difficulty wise, I'd say they cater to beginners' level.

ajax81
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In the start page in VS (which I guess annoys many people, including me, so they turn it off), there's an item about devcamps. Here's the link:

http://www.webcamps.ms/

Free, but you have to be near a major city.

Instructors look like Microsoft MVPs, employees, evangelists.

Here's the propaganda:

ABOUT MICROSOFT WEB CAMPS

function WebCamps () {
   Day1.Learn();
   Day2.Build();
}

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