Ron Cundiff's WebLog

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 17: Custom Windows Forms Controls, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:21:14 GMT

In this session we learned about building custom Windows Forms controls, including some advanced graphics teqniques.

Here are the resources for this session:

And here are some more resources for this session:

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 16: Visual Basic and Windows Applications, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:00:38 GMT

In this session, we explored how to build Windows applications using Visual Basic 2005, including learning about the base form class, dynamic layout on our forms, and some simple graphics functionality.

Here are the resources for this session:

And here are some related resources:

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 15: Custom Web Controls, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:56:11 GMT

In this session, we learned about controls we can build using Visual Basic to enhance our web applications and streamline our development efforts, including building custom user controls, custom server controls, and design-time controls.

Here are the resources for this session:

And here are some related resources:

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 14: Visual Basic and the Web, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:51:39 GMT

In this session, we introduced Visual Web Developer Express Edition, and showed how to build web applications using this tool and the Visual Basic language.

Here are the resources for this session:

And here are some related resources:

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 13: Inheritance and Polymorphism, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:28:15 GMT

In this session, we discussed inheritance and polymorphism in Visual Basic, and how to implement a class hierarchy. Here are the resources for this session:

And here are some related resources:

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 12: Delegates and Events, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:17:28 GMT

In this session, we discussed using delegates and events in Visual Basic.

Here are the resources for this session:

Here are some more resources on using delegates and events:

I also had someone ask for an example of creating threads in Visual Basic, like to update a progress bar. Here's an example:

How to create threads in Visual Basic .NET

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 11: Exception Handling, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:05:38 GMT

In this session, we discussed using structured exception handling within our applications to prevent run-time errors.

Here are the resources for this session:

Here are some more resources on exception handling in Visual Basic:

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 10: Arrays and Collections, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:48:51 GMT

In this session, we discussed using arrays and collections to store our data within our applications.

Here are the resources for this session:

Here are some more resources related to the topic:

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 9: Basic Debugging, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:52:56 GMT

In this session, we discussed some basic debugging techniques and features in Visual Basic Express Edition we can leverage in order to troubleshoot our applications.

Here are the resources for this session:

And here are some more resources for further understanding debugging applications:

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 8: Branching and Looping, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:26:49 GMT

In the last session, we talked about making decisions in our apps, including how we can iterate over a collection of statements based on a condition (or for every item in a collection).

Here are the resources for this session:

Here are more resources related to branching and looping in Visual Basic:

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 7: Operator Basics, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:47:00 GMT

Unfortunately, I was unable to post the wrap-up for last week's session until now, due to connectivity issues. (BTW, do you suffer from "Internet withdrawal" when you can't get connected?) But now that I'm in a different city, different hotel, I have connectivity again!

And here's the wrap-up for our last session in this series:

And here are some more resources related to Operators in Visual Basic:

Using Operators in Visual Basic

Operators in Visual Basic

Operator Overloading in Visual Basic 2005

Arithmetic Operators

Logical Operators

Description of "short-circuit" evaluation in Visual Basic

AndAlso Operator

OrElse Operator

Build Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets (and win some cool prizes while you're at it)

Ron Cundiff — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:10:18 GMT

The Code Project is hosting a competition (and offering cool prizes) for the best Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets. Find out more. Pretty cool that you get to play with new technology and maybe earn some swag at the same time, huh?

Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts Webcast Series, Part 6: Classes and Objects, Wrap-up

Ron Cundiff — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:58:58 GMT

Oops. I guess I forgot to publish this post after my webcast yesterday. Sorry about that.

Thanks to everyone who attended the session today, err...yesterday, as we talked about classes and objects in Visual Basic. Here are some more resources related to this session:

View the on-demand video of this webcast
Download the slides
Download the code (I added a line of code to demonstrate raising exceptions from your classes, based on some of your questions)...for more information about raising errors from your classes (and more stuff) check out the Design Guidelines for Class Libraries, where you'll find this article on Error Raising and Handling Guidelines, as well as Handling and Throwing Exceptions.
View other sessions in this series

And here are some more resources related to Classes and Objects in Visual Basic:

And here's a walkthrough of defining your own class.

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Released

Ron Cundiff — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:59:39 GMT

Read about it here.

Download it here.

Beginner Developer Learning Center Launched

Ron Cundiff — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:27:00 GMT

Tonight after the "Best of Vista Launch" user group event in Little Rock (btw, what a great crowd; thanks to everyone who attended!), I was telling someone about the brand-new Beginner Developer Learning Center. This is a great resource for anyone new to programming, or just new to development with the .NET Framework.