>Hey there,
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>I'll check Plurasight out.
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>Aparently I was very quick to form an opinion when I took a first look at http://learnvisualstudio.com. I check their list, and upon clicking on a few of the videos, noticed that, on average, they are 10 minutes long and was skeptical, but they have a money-back guarantee, so I might as well give it a shot.

The individual videos are around 10 minutes or so, but they are like chapters in a book. A suite of videos make up the lesson, so for a particular subject, there may be 5 or 10 of those 10 minute videos. Some of them could be fresher, I admit, but I subscribed a while back, and at that price for a lifetime membership, I have no complaints.

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>Regarding "the offering", don't pay attention to me. Somehow I wasn't impressed by their list the first time I saw it.
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>Thanks for the ponter to their web site and plurasight's!!!!
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>Alex
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>>Sorry - PluralSight - I think Craig recommended them
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>>http://www.pluralsight.com/main/olt/courses.aspx
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>>Not sure what you mean about "offering" and "10 minute" Leanvisualstudio has many many hours of training on a wide variety of the stuff and the sister site TrainingSpot.com has the SQL Server stuff. I bought lifetime memberships on both. ( I find classroom and conference a waste of time for me - except for the social networking part, but love the video training format )
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>>>Hi Charles,
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>>>I didn't know about http://LearnVisualStudio.com I'll take some time to explore their offering, although I'm a bit skeptical about being able to learn much from a 10 minute video.
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>>>Who's Pluralsoft? The only company I found with that name does ERP, not training.
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>>>Thanks!!!!
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>>>Alex
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>>>>I subscribed last weekend. The DRM system AppDev uses is pure hell, always has been. But once you get it working (their tech support is very nice, but I couldn't get it working on my Vista Ultimate box but now seems to be working on Windows 7 ) the training is a very good value.
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>>>>About $50 a month or $350 a year. Lots of their stuff is old, though probably still relevant, but there is certainly enough new content to justify way more than the cost. ( nice to see Robert Green again, too <g> ) I figure I can burn through everything I'm interested in before the end of the year. I really like this kind of video training (though AppDev likes Powerpoint more than I do)
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>>>>If prices were equal I would probably prefer Pluralsoft from what I saw of their samples and in January I'll probably drop $1500 on them for a year. They seemed to have more recently created material and they like code better than powerpoint.
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>>>>That said, go for it. I can't see how you can go wrong at that price ( assuming you already have a learnvisualstudio.com subscription )
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>>>>>Hi y'all,
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>>>>>I'm about to embark in learning new things, as some of you know from another message I posted a couple of days ago.
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>>>>>There's a lot of material available for free out there (videos, articles, tuturoals), as well as books, but today I ran across a an offer from AppDev that seems pretty good to me: 1 year of access to about 80 courses for some $1500 (of which at least 15 seem interesting and important to me).
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>>>>>The information's at http://www.appdev.com/promo.asp?page=WB00051
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>>>>>I think this is a good idea because I don't have to scour the web looking for materials, it's already structures, so I don't need to worry about what I'm going to learn at each step, and would save me considerable time.
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>>>>>What do you think?
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>>>>>Alex
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>>>>>PS: If I go for it (I'm planning to start around Nov. 25) and there are others interested, we can take advantage of some price breaks based on multiple users. More food for thought, more money for sushi.