Microsoft Absolute Beginner Series

Absolute Beginner Series, Visual Basic 2005
Lesson 01: Getting Started with Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions
Lesson 02: Creating a Windows Application User Interface
Lesson 03: Writing Code to Handle Events and Set Properties
Lesson 04: Working with Variables, Expressions, Statements, and Operators
Lesson 05: Using Branching and Recursion
Lesson 06: Object Oriented Programming Fundamentals - Part 1
Lesson 07: Object Oriented Programming Fundamentals - Part 2
Lesson 08: Getting to Know the .NET Framework
Lesson 09: Obtaining Data from a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Database
Lesson 10: Databinding Data to User Interface Controls
Lesson 11: Working with XML
Lesson 12: Handling Exceptions
Lesson 13: The RSS Reader Project - Designing and Planning
Lesson 14: The RSS Reader Project - Building the UI
Lesson 15: The RSS Reader Project - Working with XML and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Data
Lesson 16: The RSS Reader Project - Expanding and Refining Application Functionality
Lesson 17: The RSS Reader Project - Fortifying, Testing and Deploying the Application

Absolute Beginner Series, Visual C# 2005
Lesson 01: Getting Started with Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Lesson 02: Creating a Windows Application User Interface
Lesson 03: Writing Code to Handle Events and Set Properties
Lesson 04: Working with Variables, Expressions, Statements, and Operators
Lesson 05: Using Iteration and Selection Statements
Lesson 06: Object Oriented Programming Fundamentals - Part 1
Lesson 07: Object Oriented Programming Fundamentals - Part 2
Lesson 08: Getting to Know the .NET Framework
Lesson 09: Obtaining Data from a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Database
Lesson 10: Databinding Data to User Interface Controls
Lesson 11: Working with XML
Lesson 12: Handling Exceptions
Lesson 13: The RSS Reader Project - Designing and Planning
Lesson 14: The RSS Reader Project - Building the UI
Lesson 15: The RSS Reader Project - Working with XML and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Data
Lesson 16: The RSS Reader Project - Expanding and Refining Application Functionality
Lesson 17: The RSS Reader Project - Fortifying, Testing and Deploying the Application

Absolute Beginner Series, Visual Web Developer 2005
Lesson 01: Getting Started with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
Lesson 02: Creating a Web Forms User Interface
Lesson 03: Understanding More About Events and Postback
Lesson 04: Understanding Web Application State
Lesson 05: Debugging and Tracing your Website
Lesson 06: Working with Stylesheets and Master Pages
Lesson 07: Databinding to User Interface Controls
Lesson 08: Working with the GridView and FormView
Lesson 09: Securing your Web site with Membership and Login Controls
Lesson 10: Configuring, Building and Deploying a Web site
Lesson 11: ASP.NET 2.0 Quiz Engine Project - Designing and Planning
Lesson 12: ASP.NET 2.0 Quiz Engine Project - Early Development
Lesson 13: ASP.NET 2.0 Quiz Engine Project - Refining application Functionality
Lesson 14: ASP.NET 2.0 Quiz Engine Project - Enabling Themes, Handling Exceptions and Deploying

Absolute Beginner Series, SQL Server 2005
Lesson 01: What is a database?
Lesson 02: Understanding Database Tables and Records
Lesson 03: More about Column Data Types and Other Properties
Lesson 04: Designing Relational Database Tables
Lesson 05: Manipulating Database Data
Lesson 06: More Structured Query Language
Lesson 07: Understanding Security and Network Connectivity
Lesson 08: Connecting your Web Application to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Lesson 09: Using SQL Server Management Studio
Lesson 10: Getting Started with Reporting Services
Lesson 11: Building and Customizing Reports in Business Intelligence Development Studio
Lesson 12: Creating and Using Stored Procedures
Lesson 13: Enabling Full-Text Search in your Text Data

This entire course can be downloaded free of charge directly from the Microsoft website, although it's a little tough finding all the links to the relevant files. The original download also require the user to run about 70 installers in order to extract the lesson files (really a nightmare). This repacked version here, do not require any installation. Mount the iso and you're ready to go.

Please note that this course is targeted at beginners only. What you learn here probably apply to VB 2008 and C# 2008 because they are after all, based on the the .NET Framework, which is supposed to backward compatible.





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