Sometimes I get aspiring programmers stumbling onto my web site and asking me how to get started having no programming background. I can't really tell them to do what I did, i.e. spend 4 years programming Applesoft Basic, so instead I recommend “The Visual Basic .NET Coach,” which is supposed to introduce .NET programming from the ground up, assuming no previous programming experience. Does anyone have any experience with this book or other similiar titles?
Ian Griffiths has a very nice piece about the new drawing model in Avalon and how it differs from the drawing model that's we've known and loved since 16-bit Windows. It also includes such tidbits as a reference for the currently under-documented Path.Data attribute. Highly recommended.
Since it’s inception, I’ve been a big fan of the .NET Show and I’ve seen most of the episodes. Now, the host, Robert Hess, has got himself a .NET Show-related blog. Subscribed.
“The selling point of the Indigo Service model is that it is simple and easy to use. The benefits for developers is that they get all the benefits of enterprise-quality features such as transactions, reliable messaging and security without having to write any code. Letting Microsoft do the plumbing allows developers more time to write code that focuses on solving complex and interesting business problems.”
Alex Kipman, PM on the MSBuild team, was kind enough to provide several tutorials on MSBuild, each of which includes sample projects and documentation. If you're looking to get up to speed on MSBuild, the nextgen .NET build engine, there's no better way. Enjoy!
It’s been about 5 months since the Longhorn Developer Center was launched and I’m curious what you guys think of it. Do you like it? What about it don’t you like? How could it support your current Longhorn development goals better? What can I do for the budding Longhorn developers that we’re not doing? Don’t be shy; call it like you see it.
