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How do developers keep up to date with new C# features?
Are there famous / popular blogs that people subscribe to?
What else can developers do to keep at the forefront of changes
Actually there aren't so many new features in the language itself as you might think. Personally I am keeping track of Scott Gu's blog.
Visit this site regularly, and be sure not to miss Jon Skeet's answers and comments..
Visual Studio has a very nice preconfigured RSS feed on it's start window. It's updated regularly with posts from various MSDN blogs and usually contains very helpful information on .NET technology and programming examples (LINQ-kungfu, C# 4.0 features and so on). If nothing else I'd recommend to check it out once a day.
Subscribe to the .Net Rocks podcast.
In addition to all the good answers already written, I would recommend Bill Wagner's books: More effective C#: 50 specific ways to improve your C# which gives you a real insight into C# great possibilities. Ok it isn't online, it's just an old-fashioned book, but when you read, you forget that inconvenient. Besides, there are new editions to cover new versions. To my mind, this book, Jon Skeet's blog and msdn website can be great references for C# developers
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I have heard of BDD (Behavior Driven Development) just recently, and I liked the idea. since I work mainly with C# and .NET, I found SpecFlow, then learned that SpecFlow uses Gherkin and now I feel lost. Where do you find official documentation that tells you everything you need to know about SpecFlow, the same for Gherkin.
In short: is there a book (not blogs and articles) about developing real life (practical) applications using these tools?
Not sure if there are many books out there that covers this. The book: Pro Agile .NET development with SCRUM does cover BDD in one of their chapters.
http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Development-SCRUM-Professional-Apress/dp/1430235330
Personally I have learnt about it through the following articles/ videos:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg490346.aspx
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/mvcConf/mvcConf-2-Brandom-Satrom-BDD-in-ASPNET-MVC-using-SpecFlow-WatiN-and-WatiN-Test-Helpers
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/82891/BDD-using-SpecFlow-on-ASP-NET-MVC-Application
http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2010/03/03/behavior-driven-development-bdd-with-specflow-and-aspnet-mvc/
The official documentation is available on github: https://github.com/techtalk/SpecFlow/wiki/Documentation
Gherkin documentation: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Gherkin
I can highly recommend The Cucumber Book (http://pragprog.com/book/hwcuc/the-cucumber-book).
It's not about C# and SpecFlow but all concepts applies. Loved it
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I am always looking for places to learn more.
Which places do you recommend for podcasts about programming?
Well these are not strictly podcasts, but I recommend Scott Guthrie's (Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division) blog and twitter feeds. He posts tutorials and links to other tutorials and videos. And he should know the good tutorials!
Scott Gu Blog
Scott Gu Twitter
http://dimecasts.net/ - 10 minute bites of information, great for a lunchbreak or a quick intro
It sounds like you are looking for more than one podcast so I hope this helps answers your question, but... .NET Rocks! is an excellent podcast for C# and .NET in general.
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Does anybody know some websites who offers online tutoring for C#? I am particularly seeking one-on-one tutoring.
Check out Inner Workings.
They offer self-paced .NET training to developers as an add-in to Visual Studio. The code is checked against provided solutions, so you can gain insight into different areas of the framework. Whilst it's not quite an online tutor, the training provided is a good start.
If you need online tutor help you can contact student.support#live.com which was really helpful for me
On books for beginners i'd recommend the galileo-openbooks
Check out MSDN Virtual Labs on Visual C#.
check this
You can check this and some other books for learning...
IMO rather than taking online tutor, it will be more fruitful if you have a mentor to guide you...if not you can ask questions here and learn from it...but it is personal taste
Sharing my learning experience, it is best to learn yourself (I am also learning C/C++) and then there should be someone to answer your confusion/questions and SO is the best place for that :)
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Are there any good WPF focused blogs and/or podcasts out there?
Jaime Rodriguez, a WPF Technical Evangelist at Microsoft (you'll see him on a handful of Channel 9 videos), maintains a pretty exhaustive list of WPF bloggers, broken down into Microsoft and non-Microsoft. Right now, it's 79 blogs long, and includes every major high-quality WPF blog I can think of.
Here are some:
Lester's WPF blog
Josh Smith on WPF
My favorite WPF blog has to be Bea Stollnitz's. I've found it very useful on numerous occasions.
Sacha Barber has some great WPF stuff. He's very well respected in the Code Project community (has won many awards and is a multiple C# MVP). You can find many of his WPF articles here.
Here are some videos:
http://windowsclient.net/learn/videos_wpf.aspx
Also:
The Official Microsoft WPF and Windows Forms Site
.NET Framework Developer Center
.NET Rocks! has some excellent WPF podcasts, just look through their previous shows.
I like to visit WPF WTFs after a long day of trying to get WPF to do what I want.
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I subscribe to a newsletter from www.sqlservercentral.com that I like because each day I get an email digest with some interesting headlines & summaries of SQL Server articles that are already out there on the web. It's a great way to learn something new a bit at a time.
Is there something like this for C#?
(If your favorite one is already listed, can you vote for it so I can see what's most popular? Thanks!)
In addition to codeproject, I believe there are other sites like C# Corner, C# help which does the same..
Couple more I found useful (Not specific to C#):
visualstudiomagazine
Dr. Dobb's
Have you ever considered subscribing to blogs? You can often get better content than the daily subscription emails and if you want can even become a part of the discussion through the comments. Two that are generally good for learning more about the trade and C# are CodingBetter.com and Los Techies. If you are looking for something that is more of an aggregate of other sources Scott Gu routinely puts out a list of links that can be very informative in addition to helpful walk through articles.
Good luck,
check out wwww.codeproject.com they have a lot of articles and various newsletters.
You should try dotnetkicks.com which delivers nice rss feed of the most relevant .net blogs (imho). If you want the RSS-Feed emailed to you try feedblitz or xfruits