Training Material for Visual Studio 2008?

[JeffNY35]

Greetings, I was looking for you guys thoughts on training Material for Visual Studio 2008.

This is for someone who is an experienced programmer but new to the world of .NET.

Looking for something fairly cheap ( under $200 ). It could be training DVDs, online tutorials. I already have a couple books picked out.

I did already see there is a decent amount of free training material on microsofts site that I plan on using, but perhaps there are some gems out there I have missed?

I know this is a pretty wide open question, but I trust the average reader here at times more than I trust microsoft or google

Thanks for any recommendations you can provide.

 

[Cogman]

If it is for yourself, there is nothing better, IMO, then just diving in and seeing what you can do. But that's just me, I'm a "learn by doing" sort of guy.

The MSDN is an invaluable tool for how to get stuff done.

 

[Markbnj]

Cogman's approach is mine as well. I really can't recommend the purchase of any training materials. Between MSDN, Stack Overflow, and all the online tutorials and examples I think everything you need is already there for free. An experienced programmer won't have any problems getting up to speed. Just boot up VS and start with the generated template for a console program and add stuff. I would play around in the System.Diagnostics namespace, or in the System.Environment class just to poke around, pull strings out and display them in the console, etc.