In this course, you’ll learn to use Visual Studio 2008 to explore the Visual C# language. The course starts with a quick overview of the .NET platform, examining assemblies, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Visual Studio profiles, XML comments, IntelliSense, and debugging. From there, you’ll learn all the language features that you must internalize in order to create full-featured Web or Windows applications that make best use of the .NET platform. You’ll learn about data types, variables, and operators, along with all the important flow control structures. You’ll work through several examples demonstrating the power of the .NET Framework, and dig into creating and consuming your own classes and objects. The course moves on to working with data structures, such as arrays and collection classes, before finishing up with discussions of generics, handling exceptions and working with delegates and events. The course concludes by introducing the new LINQ-oriented features added to the .NET Framework 3.5, including anonymous types, lambda expressions, and more. By the end of this course, you will understand the important basic concepts that will allow you to start creating the applications you need.

 

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (RDS) is a significant update to Microsoft Robotics Studio. This new version includes support for 64-bit operating systems, new samples showing how to use the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight, greatly improved documentation, enhanced Project Wizards, runtime optimizations, and many other new features. The simulated robot sumo competition is now included. Please see Tandy Trower’s welcome letter and the What's New document.

Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!
Publisher: Microsoft Press 2008 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 0735625417 | PDF | 7 MB

In this lively, eye-opening, hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to program with Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition. Featuring a full edition of the software, this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project a desktop weather-reporting application from start to finish. You ll get an introduction to the Microsoft Visual Studio® development environment and learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Basic Express Edition to work right away creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You ll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources.

In this lively, eye-opening, hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to program with Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. Featuring a full edition of the software, this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project a desktop weather-reporting application from start to finish.

You ll get an introduction to the Microsoft Visual Studio® development environment and learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual C# Express Edition to work right away creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You ll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources.

Designed for the unique needs of the new Web Developer, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition provides a fun, easy to use, easy to learn tool for building dynamic Web applications.

Enjoy a streamlined development environment that is focused on the needs of hobbyists, enthusiasts, and students.
Use a developer tool that grows with you—by simply upgrading within the Visual Studio product line as your development needs grow.
Provides everything you need to begin building Web applications out of the box.
Create great looking and easy-to-use Web applications using an intuitive, WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop user interface designer.
Take advantage of more than 60 new reusable controls and hundreds of reusable code snippets to reduce the time needed to create engaging, interactive Web applications.
Use Master Pages to manage a consistent site layout in one place.
Let IntelliSense give you fast access to methods and libraries for use within your applications.
Common Tasks and Smart Tags place commonly accessed Web building functionality one click away.
Build your first dynamic, data-driven Web site.