“How Do I?” Videos for Visual C#

On this page you will find dozens of videos designed for all Visual C# developers, from the novice to the professional.

C# 4.0 Video Series
How Do I Use the Visual Studio IDE
WPF Forms with Entity Framework Video Series
Practical Entity Framework for C#

WPF Forms over Data Video Series
Windows Forms Controls Series
Developing Windows Azure Applications
Create a Picture Viewer in C#
Visual Studio Asynchronous Programming

C# 4.0 Video Series

This video series shows new features in pre-release versions of C# 4.0 and explains how to use them.

#1 | How Do I: Named and Optional Parameters in C# 4.0?
(10 minutes, 9 seconds)

#2 | How Do I: COM Interop and Office in C# 4.0?
(10 minutes, 13 seconds)

#3 | How Do I: Use Covariance and Contravariance in VS 2010 Part I?
(8 minutes, 22 seconds)

#4 | How Do I: Use Covariance and Contravariance in VS 2010 Part II?
(11 minutes 19 seconds)

#5 | C# 4.0 grammar
(4 minutes 33 seconds)

#6 |How Do I: Convert Visual Basic for Applications Macro to C# 4.0
(6 minutes 5 seconds)

How Do I Use the Visual Studio IDE

This series features techniques you can use to enhance the development process in the Visual Studio IDE. Tips for C# and VB developers highlight how they can use built in features of the IDE to create code more quickly and more efficiently.

Presented by Charlie Calvert


#1 \| How Do I Use Highlight References in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE (4 Minutes, 8 Seconds)	#2 \| How Do I use Code Snippets in the Visual Studio IDE (9 Minutes, 42 Seconds)	#3 \| How Do I Use Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010? (7 Minutes, 35 Seconds)

#4 \| How Do I: Use the Call Hierarchy with DJ Park? (6 Minutes, 39 Seconds)	#5 \| How Do I: Step with The Debugger in Visual Studio? (7 Minutes, 56 Seconds)	#6 \| How Do I: Refactor my Code in Visual Studio? (08 Minutes, 16 Seconds)

#7 \| How Do I: Refactor my Code with Visual Studio Part II? (8 Minutes, 41 Seconds)

WPF Forms with Entity Framework Video Series

This how-to video series is focused on data-based application development in Windows Presentation Foundation using Entity Framework for data access in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. It is recommended you watch these videos in order because each one builds upon techniques shown in the previous video.

Presented by Beth Massi

You will need: SQL Server or SQL Server Express and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 or Visual Basic 2008 Express Service Pack 1

Download Code and Discuss on Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpfdatavideos

#1 | How Do I: Get Started with Entity Framework in WPF Applications?
(17 minutes, 33 seconds)

#2 | How Do I: Build a WPF Data Entry Form Using Entity Framework?
(24 minutes, 42 seconds)

#3 | How Do I: Create a WPF Lookup Combobox using Entity Framework?
(24 minutes, 27 seconds)

#4 | How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF using Entity Framework?
(29 minutes, 24 seconds)

#5 | How Do I: Build a WPF Master-Detail Data Entry Form Using Entity Framework?
(36 minutes, 20 seconds)

Practical Entity Framework for C#

#1 | Practical Entity Framework for C#: Explore Entity Framework
(11 minutes 52 seconds)

#2 | Practical Entity Framework for C#: Compiled Queries in Entity Framework
(6 minutes 16 seconds)

#3 | Practical Entity Framework for C#: Entity Framework for ASP.NET
(12 minutes 8 seconds)

#4 | Practical Entity Framework for C#: Stored Procedures in Entity Framework
(7 minutes 52 seconds)

#5 | Practical Entity Framework for C#: Paging
(11 minutes 52 seconds)

WPF Forms over Data Video Series

This how-to video series is focused on data-based application development in Windows Presentation Foundation using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

Presented by Beth Massi

You will need: SQL Server or SQL Server Express and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 or Visual Basic 2008 Express Service Pack 1

Download Code and Discuss on Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpfdatavideos

#1 | How Do I: Create a Simple Data Entry Form in WPF?
(24 minutes, 32 seconds)

#2 | How Do I: Display Data in a List in WPF?
(11 minutes, 47 seconds)

#3 | How Do I: Create a Lookup Combobox in WPF?
(23 minutes, 43 seconds)

#4 | How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF?
(22 minutes, 20 seconds)

#5 | How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF?
(31 minutes, 3 seconds)

#6 | How Do I: Create a Master-Detail Data Entry Form in WPF?
(24 minutes, 58 seconds)

#7 | How Do I: Format Data in WPF Controls?
(11 minutes, 22 seconds)

Windows Forms Controls Series

This how-to video series is dedicated to getting beginner Visual C# developers productive with some of the most common Windows Forms controls, showing how to use them in Visual C#.

#1: How to Add Audio Part 1
(6 minutes, 28 seconds)

#2: How to add Audio Part 2
(5 minutes, 3 seconds)

#3: Customizing the Button Control
(9 minutes, 4 seconds)

#4: How to use the Dialog Controls
(12 minutes, 24 seconds)

#5: How to use the FlowLayout Panel
(6 minutes, 23 seconds)

#6: How to create a System Tray application using the NotifyIcon control
(6 minutes, 45 seconds)

#7: How to call other applications using the Process control
(7 minutes, 34 seconds)

#8: How to use the SplitContainer control
(5 minutes, 34 seconds)

#9: How to use the TableLayout control
(11 minutes, 26 seconds)

#10: How to use the Timer control
(6 minutes, 38 seconds)

#11: How to use the BackgroundWorker control
(9 minutes, 3 seconds)

#12: How to use the ListView control Part 1
(16 minutes, 42 seconds)

#13: How to use the ListView control Part 2
(17 minutes, 14 seconds)

#14: How to use the MenuStrip control
(11 minutes)

#15: How to use the PictureBox control
(9 minutes, 57 seconds)

#16: How to use the RichTextBox control
(9 minutes, 43 seconds)

#17: How to use the Status Strip control
(14 minutes, 54 seconds)

#18: How to use the Tab control
(8 minutes, 36 seconds)

#19: How to use the ToolStrip control
(7 minutes, 19 seconds)

#20: How to use the TreeView control
(17 minutes, 50 seconds)

#21: How to use the WebBrowser control
(13 minutes, 32 seconds)

#22: How Do I: Add Controls to a Document at Run Time in an Application-Level Add-In?
(6 minutes, 5 seconds)

#23: Deploying Excel Application-level Add-ins with Windows Installer
(6 minutes, 5 seconds)

#24: Deploying Excel Document-level Customizations with Windows Installer
(6 minutes, 5 seconds)

#25: How Do I:Create a report from a database?
(10 minutes, 12 seconds)

#26: How Do I:Create a report from a business object?
(11 minutes, 38 seconds)

#27 | How Do I: Create a Detail Edit Form for Tabular Data or Data in a Grid?
(21 minutes, 50 seconds)

The Developing Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio Video Series

In this series Jim Nakashima shows how to develop Windows Azure applications with the tools provided in Visual Studio.

Presented by: Charlie Calvert

#1 | Windows Azure: Getting the Tools, Creating a Project, Creating Roles and Configuration
(14 minutes, 26 seconds)

#2 | Running and Debugging a Windows Azure Application Locally with Visual Studio
(6 minutes, 11 seconds)

#3 | Deploying Windows Azure Applications from Visual Studio
(6 minutes, 56 seconds)

How Do I: Create a Picture Viewer in C#

This series demonstrates how to create a program that loads a picture from a file and displays it in a window. You will learn how to drag controls like buttons and picture boxes to a form, set their properties, and use containers to smoothly resize the form. You will also write some code.

Presented by Mick Alberts