Start Here! Fundamentals of Microsoft .NET Programming

As the title suggests ‘Start Here! Microsoft .NET programming is from the ‘Start Here!’ series from Microsoft Press written by Rod Stephens. This book is for those who are starting their .NET programming journey and for those even with no prior programming experience. Be it any .NET programming language it provides the basics.

If you are a beginner without any prior programming experience or even without a Computer, you can start reading this book. It’ll provide a understanding of what computers and programs in general and .NET concepts in particular.It teaches you programming concepts with clear explanations.If you want to learn any .NET programming language and , you can read this book first. In fact this book is provided as a free Companion ebook with Start Here! series for Visual basic and Visual C#.

It covers various Chapters Starting from the Concepts of Computer hardware then goes on to explain Multiprocessing, Programming Environment, Windows Program Concepts, Controls, variables, operators. Then it covers the Concepts of Object Oriented Programming, Data Storage and .NET Libraries.

So it’s that kind of book for those who wants to clear the concepts without even having a Computer. Once this is done then one can take the next step of learning a .NET language and practice it on a computer.

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Windows Phone 7 Patterns & Practices Developer Guide community site !

The Official Windows Phone 7 Patterns & Practices now available ! You can check them at - http://wp7guide.codeplex.com/ 

Periodically it will be publishing early versions of deliverable on this site, so keep checking!

At present it has a new guide from patterns & practice which will help you to design and build applications that target the new Windows Phone 7 platform.

Check the site  - http://wp7guide.codeplex.com/  for more details and download.

Developer Learning center for beginners

Microsoft started a learning center for beginners in programming. Beginner Developer Learning Center was launched on March 1st. Because of the huge success of its Visual Studio Express editions with millions of downloads, its user base is also huge. So this center will basically target the beginning programmers. Here you'll find a rich array of learning content that starts with the very basics, and guides you through step-by-step to becoming a fully-fledged developer.
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