Learning Resources for Visual C# Express

This lesson provides an overview of the series, including the RSS Reader project. Additionally, you will learn how to create your first "Hello World" application.

Duration: 24 minutes, 26 seconds

This lesson covers the basics of the Visual Studio IDE. Topics include the Toolbox and Properties window, as well as controls such as the button, label, MenuStrip, StatusStrip, and ToolStrip.

Duration: 43 minutes, 11 seconds

Note: Resources associated to Lesson 2 can be found here.

This lesson gives an overview of an event handler and explains how to write code to react to events. You will learn how to set properties for controls, as well as how to use IntelliSense, add comments to your code, and use code regions.

Duration: 24 minutes, 44 seconds

This lesson explains what a variable is and how to use them in your applications. You’ll also learn the difference between expressions and statements and how you can use operators, like the addition operator (+) in your code.

Duration: 29 minutes, 55 seconds

This lesson explains how you can use conditional logic and looping constructs in your applications. You’ll also learn about an array and how you can use looping logic to read and write values from an array.

Duration: 26 minutes, 06 seconds

This lesson has two videos and explains the fundamentals of object-oriented programming. It covers the differences between a class and an object. You’ll learn how to create and use properties and methods, as well as inheritance and encapsulation.

Duration:
Part 1 – 32 minutes, 46 seconds
Part 2 - 41 minutes, 39 seconds

This lesson looks at the .NET Framework and the large set of classes available for your use within applications. You’ll learn about namespaces and how to use Help to discover classes and their use.

Duration: 35 minutes, 27 seconds

This lesson looks at databases and how they can be used to store information you might need in your applications. In particular, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is shown.

Duration: 29 minutes, 48 seconds

This lesson looks at how you can connect your applications to databases. You will learn how to enable your application to view and edit data stored.

Duration: 50 minutes, 38 seconds

This lesson looks at XML and how you can use it in your applications.

Duration: 31 minutes, 54 seconds

This lesson looks at exceptions -- what they are, and why you want to handle them in your code.

Duration: 31 minutes, 24 seconds

This lesson shows the design and planning of the RSS Reader application. This project will show you how an application is built, beginning with a blank project, and ending with a finished application that you can share with others.

Duration: 18 minutes, 50 seconds

NOTE: The download contains all nine snapshots of the RSS Reader as it was built through videos 12-16.

This lesson begins the development of the RSS Reader. In this lesson, you create the main files that will be needed in the project, and rough out the user interface.

Duration: 20 minutes, 16 seconds

This lesson continues work on the RSS Reader project. In this video, you will add the ability to download the RSS files from the Internet. The data access functionality will be roughed out.

Duration: 21 minutes, 28 seconds

This lesson continues work on the development of the RSS Reader. The data access code is completed and further refinements are made.

Duration: 31 minutes, 31 seconds

In this video, the RSS Reader project is completed. Final coding tasks are done and the application is packaged for distribution.

Duration: 30 minutes, 20 seconds

This video shows how to use the SoundPlayer control to play wav audio files in your application.

Duration: 6 minutes, 28 seconds

This video shows how to use the Windows Media Player ActiveX control to play wma and MP3 audio files in your application.

Duration: 5 minutes, 4 seconds

This video shows how to take and customize the Button control including layout, hover effects, and events.

Duration: 9 minutes, 16 seconds

This video shows how to interact with common Windows Dialog controls, including the File Open, Save, Page Setup, Print, Color Picker, and Font Dialog controls.

Duration: 10 minutes, 56 seconds

This video shows how to use the FlowLayout panel to create dynamically resizing Windows UI.

Duration: 5 minutes, 15 seconds

This video shows how easy it is to create applications that use the Windows system tray.

Duration: 6 minutes, 7 seconds

This video shows how to use the Process control to automate running external applications like Notepad and Internet Explorer from within your code.

Duration: 5 minutes, 47 seconds

This video shows how to use the SplitContainer control to create a multi-pane user interface.

Duration: 5 minutes, 17 seconds

This video shows how to use the TableLayout control which enables you to dynamically add rows to your controls at runtime.

Duration: 12 minutes, 47 seconds

This video shows how to use the Timer control which you can use to poll or monitor if an action has occurred in a given time interval.

Duration: 5 minutes, 45 seconds