New to Visual Studio (2005) / C# / WPF

[Rimm3r]

Hi All,

I've got university experience in Java and PHP. I've just started my years Internship and the first thing we've been told is we need to learn the above.

I really like the idea of the Windows Presentation Foundation and I've been playing with XMAL and C# trying to make basic programs that interact with an SQL 2005 Database. But I'm just not getting on very well at all with visual studio. I've seen the books recommended for C# in Wardies thread and I'm going to look into them, but I'm just wondering if anyone else has any tips / links to good tutorials for getting along with Visual Studio?

Thanks

 

[Bakedgoods]

Are you developing ASP.net Apps by any chance?

If so dude.. this is a god send.

http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/

 

[Haircut]

What specifically is it you aren't getting along with in Visual Studio?

I find it very powerful and intuitive personally - perhaps if you've got specific questions you could post them here?

 

[roid]

What IDEs have you used in the past?

Studio was a godsend when i was used to coding in XEmacs ;]

Can be a bit annoying at first, but there are loads of settings you can tweak.

 

[davetherave2]

i personally find visual studio the easiest ide that I have worked with and I have worked with a number of ide's from borland and sun and none have a patch on vis studio. now if you are finding it difficult why not try out expressions blend from ms.

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/features/Default.aspx?key=blend

it may be more suitable for you if you are playing with wpf.

 

[topbanana]

Try Visual Studio 2008 for WPF. Actually I wouldn't recommend cutting your teeth with WPF at all, it's still quite an immature technology.

 

[Eriedor]

First of all you may want to try visual studio 2k8 as WPF is a subsystem of .net 3.0.