Series Introduction - 01

cool series, thanks Bob!

Greatness!!! Thank you Bob!

Great idea to make these videos. How about - for future - a similar course for T-SQL 2008?

Luigi

Thank you Bob! Great series

There are many programming tutorial videos out there. But Bob's videos are done exceptionally well. I am a student and I've recommended this series to my entire class. Amazing work Bob!

Great video series, and great idea! And I second the request for a similar series on for T-SQL (since almost all programming will need data & data-connections).

Diving in deep! Thanks Bob.

I loved the Windows Phone series! It so great to have a video series where you can watch how programming is done and program at the same time. Thanks Bob for the hard work and thanks Microsoft for supporting the video series!

Bob it's a great time to hear how your videos are clean and easy to understand. Microsoft Visual Studio is too big and has lot of things. It's like I'm back to computer-science class. You are my favorite tecaher honestly. Iba

For T-SQL training I would definately check out http://www.trainingspot.com/ (sister site of www.learnvisualstudio.net )

Bob I have to say. The videos are very clean and understandable. I recommend these series to anyone who start playing around with C#. Inspired by your videos I start with a serie of fundamental code snippets at: http://www.koodr.com/search/fundamentals .

I have a high opinion of Bob's ability as a teacher from previous sessions so I was looking forward to seeing this.

Sadly, there is no sound when I view it.

@morepork. You can get sound by switching the format of the video to HTML5. Sadly, doing this seems to remove the option to go full screen, so... Ugh. Somebody fix this please.

Is there a way to get the mp4 files to play in Windows Media Player?

thanks

Good

very good learning source. I have just started to learn C# on my own about 4 months ago. i have found some good and some not so good resources. so far this is the best! You get right down and explain how and why the different parts work in a basic way that makes sence to me. That is what some of the other sources lacked. Thanks

@vespergo: @Adi:  @mantisGamer:  @vanDiesel:  @Iba:  @anowar:  @Natt:  @Wayne:  Thank you for all your very kind words of encouragement.  Best wishes to all who take the time to comment.  Much appreciated!

@ciupaz:  @Jane:  Thanks!  I have found this to be true ... I've worked with the fine folks at Microsoft off and on for the past 8 years now and they ALWAYS take your requests very seriously.  In some form, I'm betting they'll deliver what you're asking for.

@Chuhukon:  Very cool resource!

@morepork:  @AndrewInMobile:  @calydon:  I would highly recommend that you use the Feedback link in the footer for issues like these.  The Channel9 team wants to know what is working and what isn't.  They're very receptive to these sorts of issues.  (Sadly, only I deliver the video it's out of my hands at that point.)  Hope you can get the issues ironed out.  

@gt5193:  Glad you liked that series ... it was partially the inspiration for all the Fundamentals series that are forthcoming.  Stay tuned!

Great Vids for Beginners !! Thanx BoB !!

Dear Bob... I have been following this series and downloaded the c# 2010 express edition. I had it before but reinstalled it and few other programs over and over and now problem is my intellisense is not working any of the IDE..(ie, c# 2010 express, vwd 2008 express, sql server management studio).

I had uninstalled c# and installed it again but still its not working even i have checked it from every possible options and settings... can you suggest what could be wrong please as its very annoying writing code without intellisense.
I am using windows 7 home professional 64bit

Thanks

@a1riz: Sounds like you're having some serious issues.  As painful as this sounds, I would recommend a total re-install of the OS to freshen everything.  Takes several hours.  Take backups and lots of notes before you start.  I do this myself ... often.  Or, at least I did before employing virtual machines for every new videos series / software development project.

thank you for your help

Hello Bob Sir,

First of all thanks alot for posting these great content, I am new to c#, I just want to know what are the topics that I need to more focus according to the real world application? Expecting reply from you Sir.

welcom sir
iam programmer in oil company i want more free book for c# to take exam.

mohammed walled
programmer
5/4/2012

I subscribed in many .NET tutorials online, but I have never seen a powerful & an enjoyable tutorials like Mr.Bob's tutorials.

I have successfully installed VS C# 2010 Express Edition using Windows 7 and I have started on the excellent Visual C# 2010 Express Edition for Absolute Beginners video series. This is a minor hitch but when I first load the Hello World program I get the following warnings:

1. Invalid search path '%lib%' specified ln 'LIB environment variable' -- 'The system cannot find the path specified.'

2. Invalid search path 'c:\program files (x86)\devstudio\vc\mfc\lib' specified in 'LIB environment variable' -- 'The system cannot find the path specified.'

3. Invalid search path 'c:\program files (x86)\devstudio\vc\lib' specified in 'LIB environment variable' -- 'The system cannot find the path specified.'

However the program runs as it should. I am a beginner and I have no idea whether I should disregard this or try to resolve it and if so how?

In case others may encounter a similar annoyance, a kind soul in the VS C# 2010 Exp. forum provided the solution.

Tools --> Options --> Environment --> Startup --> At start up:

choose: Show empty environment

@anonymos: Thanks!

@abluckyid: Did you watch the final video in this series?  The next things to focus on for "real world" applications are picking a user interface technology ... decide "web" or "windows" applications.  If "web", then the next logical place to head is ASP.NET.  If "windows", learn "Windows Presentation Foundation".  ALSO, you will want to learn how to work with databases, so you will want to learn a little about "SQL Server", particularly, how to create tables, write queries, etc.  THEN you will want to learn more about "ADO.NET" and the "Entity Framework".  Hope that helps!!!

@mohammed: The best way to prep for the exams is experience.  Once you have a couple of years of experience, and need to make sure you are ready, the Transcender exams work best.  Best wishes!

@abdullahsalem: Thanks for the link love.    Glad you enjoy my work!  Much appreciated.

@Mard Osk:  Glad you were able to figure this out with the help of the forums. Sorry I couldn't provide any insight.

Awesome Bob just went through the vb.net and now am starting on C# , so helpful for a noob like myself  

@gerdi:  Cool!  You'll get bonus points for watching both.    Personally, I think learning both makes you a better programmer AND makes you more valuable.  Good luck!

Learned some basic programing on punch cards back in the 70's while in university. Studied some MS Macro Assembly in the 80's on my own. It is a whole new world now and I'm just trying to catch up. Your lessons seem like a good place to start.

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@BobTabor, add English subtitle better. :)

@ethendrix: Wow, you've witnessed A LOT of change in your career.  Hope you enjoy this series!

@Swe: I'll take that as a compliment.  

@Xiaotian Chen: Subtitles are a great idea.  It's just very very time intensive and therefore, expensive.

Quick Question...
What are the basic source codes for the skeletal tracking kinect features? Not sure where to find them.
Thanks in advance

@Quick Question: Sorry, I think you took a left turn when you should have hung a right on the Channel9 home page.  Seek out Dan Fernandez's Kinect series on Channel9.  Good luck!

Bob, awesome videos. But it takes me three hours to install visual studio after I download it. I end up pausing or cancelling it, because I feel there is a problem with my laptop. Does it generally take this long? Or is there something that needs to be fixed?

Also, could you link me to similar tutorials for C++?

@ABC: Yeah, it should take like 20 minutes tops ... even if you're on a slow computer.  There could be a number of reasons for install failure ... pre-requisites not installing correctly, operating system in need of patches, disk full ... could be anything.  Have you searched for articles on this, "visual studio install times out"?  Perhaps someone else has run into it (and hopefully solved it)!

re: C++ ... I'm not aware of any C++ tutorials but I imagine they're out there somewhere (!!!) ... I'm not a C++ guy, so I didn't create any.  Sorry!

Wow bobtabor teachs here? AWESOME guys trust me he is the BEST!

Bob I'm getting ready for MCTS exams,Do u know where i can find practice examples?

PS:I'm from Iran and we dont have credit cards(embargo )! (

thanks!!!

@saeidbekewl: I honestly do not know of anyone who does this besides Transcender.  Good luck!

 Thanks bob

hi sir, you're my all time favorite online teacher because your method of teaching is very well, you speak English so accurately, sir i wanna ask you that where i can get your asp.net complete video series freely

best regard's,
adnan qadir

Brilliant stuff Bob!!! Thats the way, I always wanted to be taught a programming language.

Thank you.

i am from afghanistan i trying to find good c# learning but now i successed to find the good learning thank you bob
i want to learn about ADO

"Your favorite search engine, like Bing.com"

nice try man :D

@akafortes: lol  

Hello everyone!
I'm from VietNam.
My English is not good.
Do you have englishsub all video?
Thanks.

I would suggest y'all incorporate a facility/link after introduction video offering a tenderfoot to gracefully get the needed VISUAL STUDIO Express on the student's system.. I had become able to build a single Form app with VB6 thinking it necessary to learn the.NET choosing to be patient and learn from the ground up probably filling in a gap or two in my heretofore gained ability. Once I've got my VS Express on-board ,ready to do some serious learnin'...

will u tell about this errors? I wanted to great GUI program by using Visual Studio 2010 please reply me
Error 1 Program 'C:\Users\NiyaziHasanov\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\WindowsFormsApplication4\WindowsFormsApplication4\obj\x86\Debug\WindowsFormsApplication4.exe' has more than one entry point defined: 'WindowsFormsApplication4.Program.Main()'. Compile with /main to specify the type that contains the entry point. C:\Users\NiyaziHasanov\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\WindowsFormsApplication4\WindowsFormsApplication4\Program.cs 13 21 WindowsFormsApplication4


Error 2 'maximumValue.Form1.Dispose(bool)': no suitable method found to override C:\Users\NiyaziHasanov\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\WindowsFormsApplication4\WindowsFormsApplication4\Form1.Designer.cs 14 33 WindowsFormsApplication4



Error 3 Program 'C:\Users\NiyaziHasanov\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\WindowsFormsApplication4\WindowsFormsApplication4\obj\x86\Debug\WindowsFormsApplication4.exe' has more than one entry point defined: 'maximumValue.maximumValue.Main()'. Compile with /main to specify the type that contains the entry point. C:\Users\NiyaziHasanov\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\WindowsFormsApplication4\WindowsFormsApplication4\Form1.cs 192 21 WindowsFormsApplication4

Thank you Bob for this fantastic series. It was a great learning experience in the entire series.

Really appreciate your efforts.

Hi,

Thank you soo much! You are awesome :)

Bob, i think ur the best..you made understanding C#. really appreciated. be blessed

This is the greatedt community on the planet!! :-)

**...greatest community...**

I'm joining right now!!

@Niyazi: Sorry I didn't see this until now.  The problem is that if you create a WPF or a Windows Forms application and then modify the Main() method, you'll get those results.  Please follow the instructions for this series exactly ... by creating Console Applications.  In the future, when you're ready to build WPF or Windows Forms applications you probably will approach developing applications completely differently -- you will not modify the Main() method, the "entry point" of the application, because the Visual Studio template will initialize the form or other important startup objects.

@HungPD: I know Channel9 is considering how best to do subtitles in the future.

@Bob Foley: Good suggestion.  Thanks!

@niketshah: Thank you for the nice words!

@Jai: Thank you!  YOU are awesome!  

@Duncan: Great!  Glad C# is sticking for you!

@Daniel: Very cool.  Thanks Daniel!

Thank you so much for these nice series of C#.
Already I have finished series of Windows Phone 7 for absolute beginners.

Hello Bob its awesome class...thanks a lot...
but i getting error:1520 while compiling the code. i'm using windows 7 64-bit.

@nagg: Two things.  First, CAREFULLY follow the instructions exactly.  You typed something incorrectly, thus the exception 1520.  Second, if you can't quite get this right that's ok ... that's the point of this little exercise -- to show you it's not fun or easy to do things outside of Visual Studio (even if it is possible).  You should prefer to use Visual Studio -- you now can attest to the fact that it will be challenging without it.  Hope that helps!

Thanks Bob for your Words...

I'm doing good in visual studio(2012)...but getting error by using cmd. I donno much about How to use cmd.

I like the smile during the Bing recommendation.

thanks

hello i'm chinese I do't understand many words but i want to learn

i have a doubt about the memory allocation system(in c++). suppose we have created a stack using an array implementation which has been allocated memory dynamically , so while popping out values if the destructor has been called somewhere in case of function (most probably) then the stack go out of scope. is there any way in any other language by which we can retrieve that stack(which is out of scope)again so as to read or pop remaining values.

hello bob !!
please link me regarding good device driver programming stuffs from any of your colleague's website like your learnvisualstudio.net...

Tank you!

hi, i just want to say something about this video...

moo

Love this. Very cool !

Thanks Bob , I've downloaded all your series. I just love it , Awesome！

Thanks Bob :) no words to describe the series.... U r the best .....

its awesome thanks from my bottom of heart

Bob, You are awesome!.... I can't thank you enough... I'm really grateful the way you dive into details. I'm a novice into programming and this series help me a lot, lot... so thank you.

...

dear,Bob

do i have to know html5 css3 and javascript before i can make an app


from azemii

I went through lessons 14 and 15, and there seem to be a couple issues. At the begining of the video for lesson 15, the program is different from the end of 14, even though it is supposed to be where 14 ended. Also, the source code for 15 only has ByRefByVal, no SimpleClasses.

Bob, This tutorial is really good. My problem is I have the 2012
version and the differences are enough to throw me off.

Is there a version of this for 2012?

How do I find Solution Explorer in the 2012 version?

Looks like bob has left the building,,,,,

But just in case:

Thanks for the series, and the clarification in the "addendum" video. 

I was concerned over where to start in programming, but I have heard from quite a few that C# and Java were the best options for a "noob".  Then I considered which would be better for business computing.  Java sort of failed in this aspect as many businesses are "scared" to use anything really created in Java, but feel C# is more a "real" language for their business applications. 

As another point, Visual C# 2012 also (from what I saw)  is great to create Windows Metro Apps (or whatever the "real" name of it is), but I keep being told of the NEED to learn a foundation in desktop application development first.  This seems to be the way to go, learn desktop development with these tutorials and the book that I purchased on the cheap ($4.50) at a local used store on C# 2010.  Then, get a book on creating the "metro" style apps in 2012 after getting comfy creating little applications for the desktop.

Oughta be a wild ride

STLShawn
Yes it looks like Bob is incommunicado.
I have had a few problems with reconciling the 2010 videos with the 2012 version.

In Lesson17 I can't get the dll to add in to the references.

In Lesson23 I can't get the wpf 'Button' to work like the video.

If you have a resource that can help me with this please post it
here.