Monday, April 9, 2007

Learn Visual Studio & Learn Expression

I guess, the next few posts will be about the design process of Bakingdelight. But today I'm going to tell about the resources I'm using to design and develope bakingdelight.com.
Let me first tell you about the tools and technologies I'm using to develope Bakingdelight.

For development:
ASP.NET with C#
SQL 2005.
Tools:
MicrosoftVisual Web Developer

For design:
Microsoft Expression Web
Photoshop CS2

I had no experience with ASP.NET. I worked on my first dynamic web application project in classic ASP. I'm with Visual C++ background and didn't know much about C# but Bob Tabor's video tutorials really helped me to learn C#. And now I'm learning VWD and ASP.NET through his tutorials.
LVS, www.learnvisualstudio.net, is one of the best sources to learn visual studio and other Microsoft's technologies. Another good source of learning on LVS, is its Forum. The feel of LVS forum is really different. You can say its a heaven for newbies !

www.learnexpression.com is on its way to deliver video tutorials for Microsoft's Expression Products. Currently all the videos @ LE are free to watch. So if you want a quick start do watch these videos.

The other resources are Microsoft's Virtual Labs and Webcasts and Expression tutorials on EW site.

Below I'm pasting all the URls of the resources I've talked about. If you want to know more about any of the above resources, Google it !
LVS:
www.learnvisualstudio.net
LE:
www.learnexpression.net
MS WebCasts:
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/SearchResults.aspx?culture=en-US&evtTyp=3&evtTypHero=3
http://www.learn2asp.net/
EW
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/events-training/training-videos.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/expression.mspx

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