Tutorials

Tutorials

• XAML Learning Guide

  XAML is a central part of Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight and Expression development. This learning guide introduces developers to XAML best practices.  Continue Reading

• XAML Learning Guide: Development Tools

  This section of the XAML Learning Guide links to file converters, code editors and other XAML development tools.  Continue Reading

• XAML Learning Guide: Articles and Blog Entries

  This section of the XAML Learning Guide points to articles, blog entries and other XAML tutorials. Some are basic, and others are more advanced.  Continue Reading

• XAML Learning Guide: Resources from Microsoft

  This section of the XAML Learning Guide links to a helpful tutorial from Microsoft's .NET Framework Developer Center.  Continue Reading

• XAML Learning Guide: Forums and Community

  This section of the XAML Learning Guide links to helpful forums for posting questions and comments about XAML design and development.  Continue Reading

• XAML Learning Guide: Book Excerpts and Webcasts

  This section of the XAML Learning Guide offers a few book excerpts and recorded interviews with some of the .NET development community's foremost authorities on XAML.  Continue Reading

• ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Learning Guide

  The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is a set of ready to use Ajax controls and extensions for ASP.NET apps. This reference introduces the toolkit and links to a variety of controls.  Continue Reading

• Mini-Guide: The VB.NET Development Environment, Part 3

  In Part 1, I highlighted eight video tutorials from Microsoft that covered the unified IDE, dynamic help, backward and forward navigation, customizable toolbars, IntelliSense enhancements, line numbers, word wrap and the start page. Next in Part 2, ...  Continue Reading

• Mini-Guide: The VB.NET Development Environment, Part 2

  In Part 1, I highlighted eight video tutorials from Microsoft that covered the unified IDE, dynamic help, backward and forward navigation, customizable toolbars, IntelliSense enhancements, line numbers, word wrap and the start page. Now in Part 2, ...  Continue Reading

• Mini-Guide: The VB.NET Development Environment, Part 1

  The tenacity of Visual Basic 6 is commendable but to paraphrase Omar Khayyám, the moving finger codes and having coded, moves on. Maybe you've finally decided to move on, too — to Visual Basic .NET. Your first step should be to become ...  Continue Reading

• Choosing VB.NET or C# Learning Guide

  One of the biggest questions facing Visual Basic 6 developers is whether to make the jump to C# or to VB.NET. This Learning Guide aims to make that decision-making process easier.  Continue Reading

• Visual Studio 2005 Learning Guide

  We've added a plethora of articles, tips, book excerpts and other references to this learning guide, which dives deeply into Microsoft's IDE for application development.  Continue Reading

• Mini-Guide: Web Development, Part 2

  In Part One, I pointed you to seven tutorial videos to help jumpstart your Web development by introducting you to ASP.NET starter kits, how-to's on building "Web-aware" applications and how to benefit by using compiled Web pages.

  Now you'll ...  Continue Reading

• Mini-Guide: Web Development, Part 1

  Transferring your existing developer skills to the Web is easy with these seven tutorial videos as your guide. Jumpstart your Web development with an introduction to the ASP.NET Commerce and ASP.NET Reports starter kits, learn to build "Web-aware" ...  Continue Reading

• Object-Oriented Programming in VB .NET Learning Guide

  Object-oriented programming is a major part of Visual Basic .NET. This Learning Guide offers best practices for OOP and addresses its major characteristics: abstraction, encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance.  Continue Reading