Stuart Celarier

Derek, this would not be your best choice for an introduction to .NET and ASP.NET, so your confusion is understandable. This session is an introduction to what is new in the fifth generation of the latter of those technologies, so without knowing what's come before that would be a difficult story. Why don't you try the Getting Started section of http://www.asp.net/, or perhaps the Learn | MVC section if you are interested in the MVC pattern.

Resources for automatically implemented properties, type inference, and initializers for instances and collections are posted on my blog at http://visualstuart.net/blog/2008/04/06/Whirlwind5OnCAutoimplementedPropertiesTypeInferenceAndInitializers.aspx

There's also an erratum for the collection initilizer shown at 8:55.

Resources for accessor visibility, static classes, and nullable types, along with a code sample, are posted on my blog at
http://visualstuart.net/blog/2008/03/26/Whirlwind4OnCAccessorVisibilityStaticClassesAndNullableTypes.aspx

Resources for partial types and anonymous methods are posted on my blog: http://visualstuart.net/blog/2008/03/24/Whirlwind3OnCPartialTypesAndAnonymousMethods.aspx

Resources for iterators are posted: http://visualstuart.net/blog/2008/03/20/Whirlwind2OnCIterators.aspx

Resources for generics are posted on my blog: http://visualstuart.net/blog/2008/03/17/WhirlwindOnCGenericsPostedOnChannel9.aspx