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The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

• C# 4.0
• Visual Basic 10
• F#
• Parallel Extensions
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• ASP.NET 4
• Windows 7
• Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Managed Extensibility Framework
• Visual Studio Team System

This version of the Training Kit works with Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4 RC.

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Learn how teams around Microsoft and ISVs around the world use the Fiddler web debugging tool to find bugs, troubleshoot performance problems, and uncover security vulnerabilities in both client and server code. Explore the best add-ons for Fiddler, and build your own functionality using JavaScript and .NET languages. Examine how new features in Internet Explorer 8, like Accelerators and Visual Search suggestions, utilize the network. Learn actionable best practices for building faster websites.

Become a Web Debugging Virtuoso with Fiddler

This workaround uses editing of MSI, where just removes LaunchCondition which define required OS version. For edits of MSI could be used Microsoft Orca or InstEd.

more info and whole idea on Workaround for “Package does not support server operating systems” with Orca MSI editor

another tool for localization (some tools I mention on .net localization / resx) is named ResourceBlender.

ResourceBlender is an open-source translation and internationalization application which offers an easy way to manage localized resources for inclusion with different applications.

Available as an ASP.NET web application

and a WPF desktop application

, it makes localizing applications a breeze. ResourceBlender generates localized resources in different formats from a central database for inclusion with different applications.

more info on http://www.resourceblender.com/

The Dsofile.dll files lets you edit Office document properties when you do not have Office installed

• The Dsofile.dll sample file is an in-process ActiveX component for programmers that use Microsoft Visual Basic .NET or the Microsoft .NET Framework.
• You can use this in your custom applications to read and to edit the OLE document properties that are associated with Microsoft Office files, such as the following:
      * Microsoft Excel workbooks
      * Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
      * Microsoft Word documents
      * Microsoft Project projects
      * Microsoft Visio drawings
      * Other files that are saved in the OLE Structured Storage format
• You have a royalty-free right to use, to modify, to reproduce, and to distribute the Dsofile.dll sample file component and the C++ source code files in any way you find useful.
• Warning The Dsofile.dll, the source code, and the associated samples are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. Use at your own risk.
• Note To read and to edit Office 2007 documents by using this sample, you must install the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack. For more information, see the "Resources" section.

VS plugin / Helpful tool’s

• Resource Refactoring Tool Resource Refactoring Tool is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard or above that allows developers to refactor string literals in to resource files directly from the code window.

  

• Zeta Resource Editor A small utility application to edit .NET string resources inside multiple resource files (.resx) in parallel.
   
  
• RESX to XLS conversion for multi-language support Easily convert your RESX projects files to Excel and back to localized RESX

  
   

• Resx2word and Word2resx command-line utilities to convert your Microsoft RESX 2.0 resource files into Microsoft Word 2003 documents (and vice-versa). The purpose of such a conversion is to let the translators work in a more convenient and familiar environment (i.e. MS Word) as opposed to raw XML files editor.

  

• ResEx composite, translation friendly .NET Resource editor