Blogs are a great way to keep abreast of interesting news and articles from the MSDN community. Written by Microsoft employees who work directly on the technologies or by technical experts in the partner community, blogs are a great way to track what's new, what's interesting, and what's important.

Forums are a form of support that is offered at no cost, and you can often some of the best advice and insight from the community in forums. Within the forums, you can search for answers to your questions, find responses to questions already posted that will help you solve a problem, or you can post your own questions or problems.

With videos, you can literally "see" how people communicate in an interview or you can watch steps when you in a video about how to achieve a task.

• Channel 9: A collection of videos introducing you to the people who think up and build Microsoft technologies, as well as specific technical discussions.
• Bytes by MSDN: A collection of videos about Microsoft products and technologies.

Samples come in various forms and from various sources. Samples are a favorite learning style for many developers and can be instructive and educational.

• MSDN Library: Learn by using samples that have been submitted to the MSDN library, or add your own.
• MSDN Developer Samples: Find samples, or upload your own.
• CodePlex: Find open source projects to use, contribute to, or start your own.