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Microsoft and Midrange Alliance Partner Training

Get useful training from Microsoft and Midrange Alliance partners to help your legacy modernization project. For a complete list of Microsoft training materials, visit Microsoft Learning.

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Find out how to configure Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 with the BizTalk Adapter for DB2. Learn how to use receive ports together with send ports, and how to use receive ports to receive and optionally update data on the DB2 database.

Learn how to configure Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 with the BizTalk Adapter for DB2. Specifically, find out how to use send ports to submit commands to the DB2 database.

Learn from Industry Expert on Extending Your System i to Microsoft .NET

System i industry veteran Craig Pelkie presents a series of sessions describing how programmers can quickly and efficiently integrate their existing System i Applications with .NET. Before viewing this series, you might find it helpful to download the accompanying slides.

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Overview of .NET Framework and Its Tools

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Visual Studio 2005

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Connection Options from .NET to System i

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.NET Web Application Development

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Smart Client Development

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Web Services with .NET

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System i Integration with SQL Server and MSMQ

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Suggested Follow-on Activities

Learn about AS/400 integration, including the community-driven Midrange Alliance Program, database and application interoperability techniques, application migration options, and incorporation of Service-Oriented Architecture to your existing infrastructure.

Evaluate Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, or learn how to build great applications for Windows and the Web with MSDN Virtual Labs. You can access this site immediately, with no installation required.

Participate in these free, simple labs. No complex setup or installation is required to try BizTalk Server running in the full-featured MSDN Virtual Lab. You get a downloadable manual and a 90-minute block of time for each module.

Partner Training

This self-paced webcast is a convenient way to become familiar with how ASNA Visual RPG for .NET (AVR) can help your organization take the important investments in RPG applications to the next level.

This pre-recorded event will guide you through these key issues:

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What is .NET and how can it help me

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How do .NET and Java compare

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What is AVR, how can I make use of it, what benefits does it bring to my organization

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How to ensure high performance access to DB2/400 databases from .NET applications

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What is DataGate and how can any company take advantage of this powerful solution to high performance data access

RPG application modernization is an important undertaking for any organization. Monarch is the fastest method for modernizing RPG applications and extending these applications to .NET, while retaining 100 percent of the application logic. And, RPG developers maintain and extend these applications in a familiar, modern, development environment.

This pre-recorded Webcast introduces Monarch and the powerful features of this breakthrough product:

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What is the Monarch Framework

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A full introduction to the Monarch workbench and Cocoon

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A full demonstration of how Monarch automatically transforms RPG, CL, DDS, and Print files to .NET

Watch this live demonstration to learn the steps required to create Web Services from existing iSeries applications. Find out the ways to realize your Service-Oriented Architecture future. (32 MB, 19 mins. streaming)

Find out how to build a .NET DB2 data access layer with LANSA's middleware for safe and secure access to data and programs residing on the IBM i. (11 mins. streaming)

Learn more about newlook support for smart clients, including refacing, desktop integration, and database integration. (18.5 MB, 14 mins. streaming)