Series Introduction - 01

Thank you Thank you! I will watch these with my son! awesome idea... you guys need a vb.net and c# for kids mini-khan academy!!!

cheers

Bob is back!!  Thank you Bob!!!

Thank you Bob.

im coding with vb for the last 2 years, but i think i can learn a lot more. thx microsoft for this support! greetings from germany

So tonight I'm gonna code it like it's 1999... lol, good idea with the videos, how about some C# love?

Channel 9, thank you so much for these video series.

Bob is a clear teacher. This is exactly the sort of content that always needs to be on C9, so that those of us who have been interested niners for years, but didn't know how to get started, have a place to turn.

Thank you Bob, thus has given me more courage to do more on programing. I am new on programin and I hope I will enjoy it.

Hello Bob, first all, thank you for such a great job, I really like the visual basic series, very well done.

I am wondering, could you help me out.

I want to write a database windows application, once I create the database in access, could you explain show me what I have to do to add the database to my project, create the connection and have the application display the information from the data base.

Thank you very much;

Jorge Muralles

Thank you for these videos, I am just about to sit down and watch this one and the others in the series as well as the C# ones.
I am only 15 year and need these videos to learn programming, I already have some experience with VB and C#, you would think school would help me learn(I'm from the UK) but they only teach Word, Powerpoint and Excel.
I hope to do Software Development as a career and am hoping to learn how to develop for Windows 8.
Thank you!

Thank you all for the kind words!

@Jorge ... Unfortunately that's a bit out of the scope of what Channel 9 asked me to create this time around.  If you're only interested in free resources, I have to imagine that Channel 9 (or some other Microsoft web property) has a bunch of tutorials that could walk you through it.

Great knowledge, In depth discussion of topics and the presentation, oh god beyond the imagination. Great stuff Sir.

The whole video series is owesome.This whole video series not only help me to understand the topics, it's gives some extra power to my imaginations to take on other related technologies so quickly.

@Jorge  Please go here: http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials (The majority of the examples are for ASP.NET, but the concept is almost the same). Also check out http://windowsclient.net/.

There are tones of examples that are very helpful.  I would certainly look into the Entity Framework technology.  But,  I strongly urge you to learn T-Sql (I started learning T-SQL here www.trainingspot.com and used Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes ISBN-13: 978-0672325670 and slowly promoted myself to: Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals (PRO-Developer) ISBN-13: 978-8178531045.

Try to learn the old school way of (Connection, Command, Parameter .....etc etc) ADO.NET 2.0, just in case you inherit an old project (HAPPENED TO ME!!!).

Good Luck Jorge.

Nice job Bob,
I learned programming using QBASIC in 2005 when I was in school. I also worked with C. Being an engineering undergrad student, I want to develop a reservoir simulator program. theoretical part is very much clear to me but i'm afraid of programming intricacies. is this series useful for me? i'll have to use a lot of numerical solution techniques in my program. and i don't have enough time to learn programming in a full fledged manner that's why i am resorting to something that could just get my job done. Kindly help me in this regard. keeping in view time constraints (max. 2 months) is it the right place for me?

@Dawood: I know nothing of reservoir simulation, so I'm afraid I can't comment about the problem domain in any real depth.  This series is geared towards learning the C# programming language and the basics of the .NET Framework.  Assuming you could really latch on and understand the ideas I'm presenting, there would most likely be more to learn about rendering graphics on screen that simulate a reservoir (?), saving data about the reservoir to a database or some file-based data structure, a user interface to capture information from a user or to display raw data to a user.  These are NOT topics covered in this series.  Once you have the background of this series, however, you could dive deeper into those topic areas.  It is roughly the equivalent of having a 4th grade education and writing a novel.  Yes, kindergarten to 4th grade covers crucial information in our developments, however it is just a foundation to build on.  On a smaller scale, that is the scope of this series ... to provide a foundation (fundamentals) for you to build on.

thank you for your reply

don't hear anything

Hi,

I'm a rookie in this community and in C# world, i really want to learn this, but have huge problem downloading:( Download the entire series' source code in c#) . it says phone code zip can not be downloaded. Can some one please help me. i tried on this website.

.http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners

Regards

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@Samoht_DK42: Sorry for the delayed response.  I just downloaded the link in question (to a MAC no less!!!) and it worked for me.  Perhaps it was a temporary outage of Microsoft's CDN or something?  All I could suggest is to try again.  Hope that helps!

Great series. May I ask what software you used to record these screen casts?

@blake: Just to tie this up, we conversed via email.  Hope that helped!  

Hi Bob, I have tried many times, but i doesn't seem to work for me. i can't download the series C#.

In the bottom of the sreen it saids can't download the phone code zip file, tried to  disconnect my firewall, i have deleted all temporary internet files nothing seems to work.

Have you any idear.

Hi, There is no sound in the video, can't hear anything

@sonic: Did you try downloading the WMV or MP4 version to your local desktop?  Also, another user in another video series suggested the following:

"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"

Hi Bob, thanks for much for your excellent series. As an absolute beginner it's been an invaluable resource. Nice job!

Jan 30, 2012 at 11:08 AM, BobTabor wrote

@blake: Just to tie this up, we conversed via email.  Hope that helped!  

hi Bob, many thanks for your effort in making such excellent tutorial series.

i am a newbie on VB.NET and i m trying to make a little application using visual studio 2010 .Net framework 4.
the program login to a website/ forum and i have made the interface and there is a login window
so what i m trying to make is to login in that forum from my program and then close that login window and show the resulting outcome (the page that is shown after logging in the forum after we login from usual web browser, like Firefox) in the new form/window in the same way yahoo messenger does.
so far, i m just able to show that outcome in the webbrowser in the same login window,,
thanks

may i also know about the software you used to make the video??

thanks again

Hey, i really loving things....the begining is really crazy beyond this world concept.
I believe after the tutorials i am a programmer...haaahha.
God bless you.

Thanks for the great series!

I'm giving myself a speed course C# with it.
I'm not experienced with programming but thanks to your well paced tutorials I'm making progress!

Please Bob would you mind to upgrade some of those videos on www.learnvisualstudio.net ?

yes bob I am some your students on www.learnvisualstudio.net live -time

Awesome training videos. Thank you so much for this Bob!

Please make a video series for vb.net intermediate ..and then advanced  

@gerdi: Thanks for writing.  That is a message for the Feedback link in the footer of this website so it can get on Microsoft's radar. Best wishes!