Pleasanton, CA - August 9, 2005 - InnerWorkings today announced that it is providing free learning challenges to developers moving from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET. As part of Microsoft’s successful VBRun initiative, InnerWorkings is offering a collection of real coding challenges for VB .NET developers:

• Validating User Input
• State Management and Page Navigation
• Reading and Writing XML Data

Based on the company’s unique structured practice methodology, these challenges are designed to sharpen your development skills on key coding techniques in Visual Basic .NET. As part of this offer, InnerWorkings has teamed with Paul D. Sheriff & Associates to provide developers with access to three supportive technical articles and a comprehensive e-Book on VB .NET fundamentals.

Microsoft has achieved great success with its VBRun initiative, offering developers a host of useful resources such as migration guides, case studies, best practices, and learning resources. In conjunction with Microsoft, InnerWorkings has added a selection of its innovative coding challenges and real-time code judging capabilities to all VBRun developers.

To take advantage of this exclusive offer, please visit the Featured Partners section of the VBRun website:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/featuredpartners/