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WindowsClient .net is a Microsoft site that has information about writing client applications

for Windows. The site focuses on two presentation technologies, Windows Forms and

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). In addition to technical articles, hands-on labs,

samples, forums, and blog posts, this site also has videos. The Windows Forms videos are

a great place to continue your learning after completing this book.

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/

Channel 9 is a Microsoft site that hosts videos and discussions around programming.

It has a learning center that has online training videos. Some of the training includes Visual

Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, Windows 7, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Silverlight,

SQL Server, and Windows Phone.

http://live.visitmix.com/Videos

Mix is a yearly Microsoft conference that focuses on current and upcoming Web

technologies. All of the sessions are recorded and posted online for free. The technologies

include Silverlight, ASP .NET, Visual Studio, Web services, HTML, Internet Explorer, and

Windows Phone.

http://microsoftpdc.com/Videos

PDC, or the Professional Developers Conference, is a Microsoft conference that focuses on

future Microsoft technologies. All of the sessions are recorded and posted online for free.

The technologies include Windows, Windows Azure, WPF, ASP .NET, ADO .NET, Visual Studio,

Visual Basic, C#, and Office.

http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/

The LearnVisualStudio .NET site is a pay site that includes over 500 videos that target beginner

to experienced skill levels. The videos cover several areas in .NET including the .NET Framework,

Visual Studio, Visual Basic, C#, Windows Forms, WPF, ASP .NET, ADO .NET, and SQL Server.

Books about Visual Basic and Visual

Studio Programming

Books about Visual Basic and Visual Studio programming provide in-depth sources of

information and self-paced training that Web sites can supplement but not replace. As you

seek to expand your Visual Basic and Visual Studio programming skills, I recommend that

you consult the following sources of printed information (listed here by category and date

of publication). Note that this isn’t a complete bibliography of Visual Studio titles, but it is

a list that’s representative of the books available in English at the time of the initial release of

Visual Studio 2010. I also list books related to database programming, Web programming,

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, and general books about software

development and computer science.