Must watch – The future of personal computing and communication.

Must watch – The future of personal computing and communication.

Posted using ShareThis

.NET Book Zero by Charles Petzold

Charles Petzold is a well known author of over fifteen programming books. To many, his books on programming Windows are the definitive books on the subject. As part of a new book on .NET programming, he wrote a chapter zero, to help bridge the gap between Windows developers and .NET developers. This chapter grew and grew until it became a book in its own right and he has now made it available as a free download.

Charles Petzold explained how this book originated : 

This book originated as a Chapter Zero in my book Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Microsoft Press, 2006), which is about the new Windows client program-ming platform that‘s part of Microsoft .NET 3.0 and Microsoft Windows Vista. I wanted Applications = Code + Markup to focus almost exclusively on the Windows Presentation Foundation. I knew there was enough to cover without going into the basics of general .NET programming and C#. Yet, I wasn‘t sure how much .NET my readers would know.

I started writing a Chapter Zero for the book that would summarize all the basics of .NET and C# for the C and C++ programmers who might be coming to .NET for the very first time. It soon became evident that this Chapter Zero would be very long. It occurred to me that I could extract the material and make it a book on its own. And so I did and this is it. What you have in your hands (or are reading on a screen) is an introduction to C# and those topics in .NET that are typically found in all .NET programming.

 The contents of .NET Book Zero are copyrighted by Charles Petzold, but the book is freely distributable. 

You can find the book @ http://www.charlespetzold.com/dotnet 

PDF version of the book (requires PDF Reader): DotNetBookZero11.pdf (1.2 megabytes)

XPS version (requires Windows Vista or .NET 3.0 or XPS Reader): DotNetBookZero11.xps (2.4 megabytes)

Source Code: DotNetBookZeroSourceCode10.zip (190 kilobytes)

Links of the Month (March 20th 2009)

http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/ (Very good yet common questions)

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/screencasts/default.aspx ( a webcast that takes you step-by-step to discovering new functionality or exploring a hot developer topic, all in 10-15 minutes ).

http://linqpad.net/ ( LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in amodern query language: LINQ.  Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio! )

http://www.mediastoryboard.com/ss.aspx (HOW DO I ..videos of LINQ ..Very good resource..)

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/archive/2008/11/05/download-pdc-2008-sessions-and-watch-offline.aspx ( Download PDC 2008 Sessions and Watch Offline, PDC08 sessions )

 http://idealprogrammer.com has over 300 hours of Free .NET Video tutorials that you can watch on your DVD player, TV, or Computer. By burning the videos to DVD, you can de-couple yourself from the computer and learn anywhere and anytime you want. 

http://www.dnrtv.com/ 

http://www.hanselminutes.com/    ( Hanselminutes is a weekly audio talk show with noted web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman and hosted by Carl Franklin. Scott discusses utilities and tools, gives practical how-to advice, and discusses ASP.NET or Windows issues and workarounds ).

http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/el/archive/2008/12/24/5217.aspx    ( WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION (WCF) – VERY GOOD STARTER FOR DEVELOPERS OF ALL LEVELS ) 

http://aspdotnetsolutions.blogspot.com/search/label/Video%20Tutorials    ( Complete Solution and Videos of Asp.net, C#, VB.net, PHP )

Hope these links helps…

HAPPY CODING.

Considering Windows Azure

Recently, I was browsing Nicke Andersson blog and I was so impressed by the presentation that Iam posting the presentation in my blog. 

This presentation was about Windows Azure, and what Niche have learned from considering porting several applications to it. This is not a particularly technical session,  focused on the slightly more philosophical side, by looking at Azure and Cloud applications from a bit of a business perspective as well as an architectural one.

Hope you enjoy the presentation…