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“How Do I” Videos — ASP.NET

On this page you will find dozens of videos designed for all ASP.NET developers, from the novice to the professional. If you are new to ASP.NET, you can learn the basics of how to create dynamic web applications with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, using either Visual Basic or C#. If you have a bit of development experience, you will learn how to employ some of the great new features introduced in ASP.NET 2.0. New videos are added every week, so check back often.

This Week's Featured Video

How Do I: Retrieve Values From Server Side AJAX Controls

In this video I will demonstrate how to retrieve values from server side AJAX controls like the ones found in the AJAX toolkit.

Presented by Joe Stagner
Duration: 8 minutes, 28 seconds

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“How Do I?” with ASP.NET 3.5

Visual Studio 2008 provides ASP.NET developers with great support for AJAX development, Web Design work, data processing and more. This video series is designed to help you learn what is new for web developers with ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.

#1 | ASP.NET AJAX Support in Visual Studio 2008
(9 minutes, 58 seconds)

#2 | The ListView Control
(10 minutes, 40 seconds)

#3 | The DataPager Control
(8 minutes, 3 seconds)

#4 | Visual Studio 2008 and Nested Masterpages
(13 minutes, 53 seconds)

#5 | New Designer Support in Visual Studio 2008
(14 minutes, 21 seconds)

#6 | JavaScript Intellisense Support in Visual Studio 2008
(11 minutes, 23 seconds)

#7 | JavaScript Debugging in Visual Studio 2008
(9 minutes, 46 seconds)

#8 | Multi Targeting Support in Visual Studio 2008
(5 minutes, 14 seconds)

#9 | IntelliSense for Jscript and ASP.NET AJAX
(20 minutes, 50 seconds)

#10 | Quick Tour of the Visual Studio 2008 Integrated Development Environment
(14 minutes, 7 seconds)

#11 | Creating and Modifying a CSS File
(15 minutes, 35 seconds)

#12 | Adding AJAX Functionality to an Existing ASP.NET Page
(11 minutes, 30 seconds)

#13 | Creating and Using an AJAX-enabled Web Service in a Web Site
(12 minutes, 40 seconds)

#14 | How Do I: Create a Master Page in Visual Studio 2008
(8 minutes, 20 seconds)

#15 | How Do I: Create Nested Master Page in Visual Studio 2008
(12 minutes, 34 seconds)

#16 | How Do I: Cascading Style Sheets in Visual Studio 2008
(12 minutes)

#17 | How Do I: Working with Visual Studio 2008 .NET Framework
(4 minutes, 43 seconds)

#18 | How Do I: Adding Elements to a CSS File and Create New CSS on the Fly with Windows Visual 2008
(16 minutes, 54 seconds)

#19 | How Do I: Advance Cascading Style Sheet Features and Management
(9 minutes, 50 seconds)

#20 | How Do I: Converting a .NET 2.0 Windows Forms Application to .NET 3.5
(8 minutes, 46 seconds)

“How Do I?” with LINQ

This video series walks you through everything you need to know to become proficient in using LINQ as a web developer. Check back often as we add more videos to the series.

#1 | How Do I: LINQ to SQL: Overview
(9 minutes, 23 seconds)

#2 | How Do I: LINQ to SQL: Data Model
(4 minutes, 3 seconds)

#3 | How Do I: LINQ to SQL: Querying the Database
(6 minutes, 19 seconds)

#4 | How Do I: LINQ to SQL: Updating the Database
(17 minutes, 16 seconds)

#5 | How Do I: LINQ to SQL: LinqDataSource
(11 minutes, 25 seconds)

#6 | How Do I: LINQ to SQL: Custom LinqDataSource
(9 minutes, 43 seconds)

#7 | How Do I: LINQ to SQL: Using Stored Procedures
(9 minutes, 18 seconds)

LINQ Videos from the VB team

These videos provide over an hour and half of content focused on the new LINQ language features of Visual Basic 9.0 included in Visual Studio 2008.

#1 | How Do I: Get Started with LINQ?
(9 minutes, 14 seconds)

#2 | How Do I: Perform Group and Aggregate Queries?
(17 minutes, 22 seconds)

#3 | How Do I: Upgrade Visual Basic Projects to Enable LINQ?
(8 minutes, 28 seconds)

#4 | How Do I: Get Started with LINQ to XML?
(14 minutes, 10 seconds)

#5 | How Do I: Enable XML IntelliSense and Use XML Namespaces?
(13 minutes, 16 seconds)

#6 | How Do I: Create XML Documents from SQL Data?
(15 minutes, 58 seconds)

#7 | How Do I: Create Excel Spreadsheets using LINQ to XML?
(10 minutes, 53 seconds)

“How Do I?” with ASP.NET AJAX

In this video series Joe Stagner and others from the Microsoft product team demonstrate how to use ASP.NET AJAX.

#1 | How Do I: Get Started with ASP.NET AJAX?
(7 minutes, 51 seconds)

#2 | How Do I: Get Started with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit?
(11 minutes, 15 seconds)

#3 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX CascadingDropDown Control Extender?
(27 minutes, 56 seconds)

#4 | How Do I: Implement Dynamic Partial-Page Updates with ASP.NET AJAX?
(12 minutes, 7 seconds)

#5 | How Do I: Make Client-Side Network Callbacks with ASP.NET AJAX?
(15 minutes, 26 seconds)

#6 | How Do I: Add ASP.NET AJAX Features to an Existing Web Application?
(7 minutes, 20 seconds)

#7 | How Do I: ASP.NET AJAX Enable an Existing Web Service?
(23 minutes, 31 seconds)

#8 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX TextBoxWatermark Control Extender?
(6 minutes, 5 seconds)

#9 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX Popup Control Extender?
(8 minutes, 51 seconds)

#10 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX ModalPopup Extender Control?
(10 minutes, 29 seconds)

#11 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX AlwaysVisible Control Extender?
(6 minutes, 17 seconds)

#12 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX Accordion Control?
(9 minutes, 31 seconds)

#13 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX Client Library Controls?
(10 minutes, 33 seconds)

#14 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX Collapsable Panel Extender?
(11 minutes, 53 seconds)

#15 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX Draggable Panel Extender?
(6 minutes, 16 seconds)

#16 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX DynamicPopulate Extender?
(11 minutes, 19 seconds)

#17 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX FilteredTextbox Extender?
(5 minutes, 30 seconds)

#18 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX HoverMenu Extender?
(7 minutes, 41 seconds)

#19 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX ToggleButton Extender?
(7 minutes, 57 seconds)

#20 | How Do I: Use an ASP.NET AJAX ScriptManagerProxy?
(8 minutes, 51 seconds)

#21 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX DropShadow Extender?
(2 minutes, 53 seconds)

#22 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX PasswordStrength Extender?
(15 minutes, 11 seconds)

#23 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX RoundedCorners Extender?
(2 minutes, 9 seconds)

#24 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX Timer Control?
(6 minutes, 21 seconds)

#25 | How Do I: Implement the Predictive Fetch Pattern for AJAX?
(24 minutes, 45 seconds)

#26 | How Do I: Implement the AJAX Paging Pattern?
(27 minutes, 12 seconds)

#27 | How Do I: Get Started with the ASP.NET AJAX Animation Extender Control?
(20 minutes, 45 seconds)

#28 | How Do I: Implement the AJAX Incremental Page Display Pattern?
(11 minutes, 47 seconds)

#29 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX ConfirmButton Extender?
(3 minutes, 34 seconds)

#30 | How Do I: Implement the Incremental Page Display Pattern using HTTP GET and POST?
(19 minutes, 31 seconds)

#31 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX Slider Control?
(10 minutes, 32 seconds)

#32 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX AutoComplete Control
(7 minutes, 7 seconds)

#33 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX UpdateProgress Control?
(6 minutes, 12 seconds)

#34 | How Do I: Configure the ASP.NET AJAX Calendar Control?
(8 minutes, 56 seconds)

#35 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX DropDown Control?
(11 minutes, 51 seconds)

#36 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX MaskedEdit Controls?
(17 minutes, 33 seconds)

#37 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX MutuallyExclusive Checkbox Extender?
(10 minutes, 52 seconds)

#38 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX NoBot Control?
(21 minutes, 53 seconds)

#39 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX ListSearch Extender?
(11 minutes, 49 seconds)

#40 | How Do I: Use the PagingBulletedList Extender Control?
(25 minutes, 31 seconds)

#41 | How Do I: Use the NumericUpDown Extender Control?
(21 minutes, 50 seconds)

#42 | How Do I: Update Multiple Regions of a Page with ASP.NET AJAX?
(7 minutes, 18 seconds)

#43 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX ValidatorCallout Extender?
(11 minutes, 6 seconds)

#44 | How Do I: Implement the AJAX After Processing Pattern?
(5 minutes, 40 seconds)

#45 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX ResizableControl Extender?
(30 minutes, 18 seconds)

#46 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX Tabs Control?
(8 minutes, 13 seconds)

#47 | How Do I: Update Multiple Regions of a Page with ASP.NET AJAX?
(7 minutes, 18 seconds)

#48 | How Do I: Choose Between Methods of AJAX Page Updates?
(11 minutes, 23 seconds)

#49 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX SlideShow Extender?
(19 minutes, 27 seconds)

#50 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanelAnimation Extender?
(20 minutes)

#51 | How Do I: Use Other JavaScript User Interface Libraries with ASP.NET AJAX?
(13 minutes, 34 seconds)

#52 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX Profile Services?
(11 minutes, 4 seconds)

#53 | How Do I: Debug ASP.NET AJAX Applications Using Visual Studio 2005?
(8 minutes, 21 seconds)

#54 | How Do I: Build a Custom ASP.NET AJAX Server Control?
(20 minutes, 22 seconds)

#55 | How Do I: Use JavaScript to Refresh an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel?
(10 minutes, 5 seconds)

#56 | How Do I: Determine Whether an Asynchronous Postback has Occurred?
(5 minutes, 14 seconds)

#57 | How Do I: Use the Conditional UpdateMode of the UpdatePanel?
(13 minutes, 9 seconds)

#58 | How Do I: Implement the Persistent Communications Pattern with the UpdatePanel?
(12 minutes, 1 second)

#59 | How Do I: Localize an ASP.NET AJAX Application?
(28 minutes, 49 seconds)

#60 | How Do I: Implement the Persistent Communications Pattern using Web Services?
(16 minutes, 37 seconds)

#61 | How Do I: Trigger an UpdatePanel Refresh from a DropDownList Control?
(9 minutes, 5 seconds)

#62 | How Do I: Create an ASP.NET AJAX Extender from Scratch?
(15 minutes, 11 seconds)

#63 | Build Custom Server Controls that Work With or Without ASP.NET AJAX?
(19 minutes, 21 seconds)

#64 | How Do I: Associate AJAX Client Behavior with an ASP.NET Server Control?
(19 minutes, 21 seconds)

#65 | How Do I: The AJAX Toolkit Reorder Control
(21 minutes, 56 seconds)

#66 | How Do I: Retrieve Values From Server Side AJAX Controls
(8 minutes, 28 seconds)

“How Do I?” with ASP.NET

This video series consists of over two hours of content focused on solving the common questions developers are facing every day with ASP.NET 2.0.

#1 | How Do I: Learn the Tips and Tricks of Experts?
(18 minutes, 46 seconds)

#2 | How Do I: Create a Multi-Lingual Site with Localization?
(13 minutes, 37 seconds)

#3 | How Do I: Make use of Caching?
(11 minutes, 34 seconds)

#4 | How Do I: Make Greater use of Caching?
(15 minutes, 36 seconds)

#5 | How Do I: Utilize Web Parts and Personalization?
(13 minutes, 39 seconds)

#6 | How Do I: Customize my Site with Profiles and Themes?
(12 minutes, 21 seconds)

#7 | How Do I: Secure my Site using Membership and Roles?
(17 minutes, 43 seconds)

#8 | How Do I: Create a “Contact Us” Page?
(13 minutes, 59 seconds)

#9 | How Do I: Create a Full-Featured Customer Login Portal?
(27 minutes, 55 seconds)

#10 | How Do I: Use Master Pages and Site Navigation?
(13 minutes, 14 seconds)

#11 | How Do I: Create Data-Driven Web Sites?
(13 minutes, 41 seconds)

#12 | How Do I: Implement an HttpModule?
(13 minutes, 39 seconds)

#13 | How Do I: Set Up the SQL Membership Provider?
(9 minutes, 34 seconds)

#14 | How Do I: Implement URL Rewriting?
(22 minutes, 27 seconds)

#15 | How Do I: Utilize the CSS Friendly Control Adapters?
(26 minutes, 26 seconds)

#16 | How Do I: Handle Application Events using an HttpModule?
(19 minutes, 11 seconds)

#17 | How Do I: Use Cascading Style Sheets for Web Page Layout?
(29 minutes, 19 seconds)

#18 | How Do I: Create a Custom Membership Provider?
(29 minutes, 3 seconds)

#19 | How Do I: Create a Custom Profile Provider?
(32 minutes, 7 seconds)

#20 | How Do I: Implement Site Navigation in ASP.NET?
(29 minutes, 39 seconds)

#21 | How Do I: Use Validation Controls in ASP.NET?
(31 minutes, 11 seconds)

#22 | How Do I: Create a Custom User Control in ASP.NET?
(27 minutes, 41 seconds)

#23 | How Do I: Implement Health Monitoring for an ASP.NET Application?
(21 minutes, 15 seconds)

#24 | How Do I: Implement Tracing in an ASP.NET Web Site?
(30 minutes, 48 seconds)

#25 | How Do I: Event Handlers in ASP.NET Web Pages and Controls
(32 minutes, 46 seconds)

#26 | How Do I: Implement a Custom Health Monitoring Event
(26 minutes, 1 second)

#27 | How Do I: Use Control State to Persist Information for a Custom Web Server Control
(13 minutes, 57 seconds)

#29 | How Do I: Read, Write, and Delete Cookies in ASP.NET
(25 minutes, 18 seconds)

#30 | How Do I: Save and Load View State Information for a Custom Web Server Control
(28 minutes)

#31 | How Do I: Create and Use Application Level Events in ASP.NET
(12 minutes, 18 seconds)

#32 | How Do I: Simple File Uploads in ASP.NET
(17 minutes, 17 seconds)

#33 | How Do I: Multiple File Uploads in ASP.NET
(16 minutes, 9 seconds)

#34 | How Do I: Multiple File Uploads in ASP.NET
(15 minutes, 41 seconds)

#35 | How Do I: File Uploads with an AJAX Style Interface
(27 minutes, 33 seconds)

How Do I: Work with Master Pages Declaratively and Programmatically in ASP.NET

#36 | How Do I: File Uploads with an AJAX Style Interface
(29 minutes, 49 seconds)

How Do I: Handle Events in Master and Content Pages

#37 | How Do I: Work with Master Pages Declaratively and Programmatically in ASP.NET
(23 minutes, 26 seconds)

#38 | How Do I: Use the ObjectDataSource with a Data Access Class and Business Object
(32 minutes, 44 seconds)

SQL Server 2005 Express for Beginners

This video series is designed specifically for SQL Server beginners—individuals who are interested in learning the basics of how to create, manage, and connect to SQL Server Express databases.

#1 | What is a Database?
(28 minutes, 15 seconds)

#2 | Understanding Database Tables and Records
(24 minutes, 56 seconds)

#3 | More about Column Data Types and Other Properties
(21 minutes, 37 seconds)

#4 | Designing Relational Database Tables
(34 minutes, 10 seconds)

#5 | Manipulating Database Data
(40 minutes, 20 seconds)

#6 | More Structured Query Language
(23 minutes, 13 seconds)

#7 | Understanding Security and Network Connectivity
(40 minutes, 59 seconds)

#8 | Connecting your Web Application to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
(1 hour, 5 minutes)

#9 | Using SQL Server Management Studio
(40 minutes, 26 seconds)

#10 | Getting Started with Reporting Services
(32 minutes, 51 seconds)

#11 | Building and Customizing Reports in Business Intelligence Development Studio
(44 minutes, 50 seconds)

#12 | Creating and Using Stored Procedures
(42 minutes, 34 seconds)

#13 | Enabling Full-Text Search in your Text Data
(38 minutes, 25 seconds)

Videos for ASP.NET 2.0 Beginners

This video series includes over six hours of video-based instruction that walks you through creating and deploying your first web page, to creating a fully-functioning Quiz Engine web site.

#1 | Lesson 1: Getting Started with Visual Web Developer Express
(28 minutes, 40 seconds)

#2 | Lesson 2: Creating a Web Forms User Interface
(49 minutes, 20 seconds)

#3 | Lesson 3: Understanding More About Events and Postback
(17 minutes, 24 seconds)

#4 | Lesson 4: Understanding Web Application State
(40 minutes, 42 seconds)

#5 | Lesson 5: Debugging and Tracing Your Website
(29 minutes, 7 seconds)

#6 | Lesson 6: Working with Stylesheets and Master Pages
(24 minutes, 18 seconds)

#7 | Lesson 7: Databinding to User Interface Controls
(22 minutes, 58 seconds)

#8 | Lesson 8: Working with the GridView and FormView
(30 minutes, 35 seconds)

#9 | Lesson 9: Securing your Web Site with Membership and Login Controls
(33 minutes, 31 seconds)

#10 | Lesson 10: Configuring, Building and Deploying a Web Site
(15 minutes)

#11 | Lesson 11: Building a Quiz Engine 1
(22 minutes, 32 seconds)

#12 | Lesson 12: Building a Quiz Engine 2
(29 minutes, 20 seconds)

#13 | Lesson 13: Building a Quiz Engine 3
(25 minutes, 27 seconds)

#14 | Lesson 14: Building a Quiz Engine 4
(31 minutes, 34 seconds)

Videos on Visual Studio Team System

This video series shows you how to use Visual Studio Team System to improve the quality and integrity of your software solutions. Visit the VSTS Developer Center on MSDN for additional resources and download or order your trial copy of Visual Studio Team Suite or Team Foundation today.

#1 | Introduction to Unit Testing with Team System
(10 minutes, 54 seconds)

#2 | Introduction to Testing Web Applications with Team System
(9 minutes, 43 seconds)

#3 | Introduction to Load Testing Web Applications with Team System
(9 minutes, 8 seconds)

#4 | Introduction to Manual Testing with Team System
(8 minutes, 56 seconds)

#5 | Introduction to Managing and Running Tests with Team System
(8 minutes, 37 seconds)

#6 | Measuring the Business Value of AJAX
(10 minutes, 27 seconds)

#7 | Code Coverage of Automated Tests
(6 minutes, 49 seconds)

#8 | Custom Extraction Rules and Coded Web Tests
(12 minutes, 39 seconds)

#9 | The Effects of Caching
(15 minutes, 36 seconds)

#10 | Using the Load Test Agent
(5 minutes, 43 seconds)

#11 | The Effects of ViewState
(10 minutes, 4 seconds)

#12 | How Do I: Integrate Defect Tracking with Testing?
(8 minutes, 2 seconds)

#13 | How Do I: Create My Own Bug Work Item?
(11 minutes, 23 seconds)

#14 | How Do I: Write Code More Quickly with Unit Tests?
(8 minutes, 40 seconds)

#15 | How Do I: Practice Test-Driven Development?
(8 minutes, 21 seconds)

#16 | How Do I: Load Test a Web Application?
(8 minutes, 31 seconds)

#17| How Do I: Tune Web Application Performance with Profiling?
(8 minutes, 33 seconds)

#18 | How Do I: Set Up Distributed Load Testing for High Volume Tests?
(8 minutes, 16 seconds)

#19 | How Do I: Enforce Coding Standards with Code Analysis?
(6 minutes, 43 seconds)

#20 | How Do I: Use Generic Tests?
(5 minutes, 3 seconds)

#21 | How Do I: Publish and Analyze Test Results?
(7 minutes, 26 seconds)

#22 | How Do I: Discover Application Changes Prior to Deployment?
(5 minutes, 10 seconds)

#23 | How Do I: Implement Continuous Integration with Team Foundation?
(6 minutes, 25 seconds)

#24 | How Do I: Automate Testing using Team Build?
(6 minutes, 25 seconds)

#25 | How Do I: Deploy a Web Application during a Team Build?
(5 minutes, 50 seconds)

#26 | How Do I: Run Unit Tests against a Deployed Database?
(3 minutes, 36 seconds)

#27 | How Do I: Enable Code Coverage and Profiling in Production Applications?
(9 minutes, 56 seconds)

Videos on Visual Studio 2005 Add-ins

This video series demonstrates projects released by Microsoft’s ASP.NET Team to address feedback from users.

#1 | Web Deployment Projects
(1 hour, 5 minutes)

#2 | Web Application Projects & Web Deployment Projects
(1 hour, 6 minutes)

Videos on Migrating to ASP.NET

Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series — provided by www.learn2asp.net(No sign up necessary)

Check out these samples from the ASP.NET 2.0 webcast series. These webcasts build on your current Web development skills — including JSP, PHP, and ColdFusion. Pick the track and topics that will make your skill set even more versatile.