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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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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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Does anyone know opensource WPF applications created using MVVM Light Toolkit? Or any samples?
Well I wrote a note taking app using mvvm light, if you wanna check the code:
ApuntaNotas
It's true that MVVM Light is lacking of big examples... We need to create that examples :)
There are not many public applications using the MVVM Light Toolkit. I know a few applications that use it, but I cannot always talk about it unfortunately. Probably it is just too new.
I am currently very busy writing a Silverlight book, but my plan is, as soon as I will be done writing, to create a reference application on Codeplex and to implement it in WPF and in Silverlight. In the mean time, if anyone else wants to create samples, let me know :)
Laurent
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/IssueVisionForSilverlight.aspx
I have T4 code templates that generate your view/viewmodel for mvvm light and also other tricks. Download here
Also see this example using MVVM Light and MEF
Laurent, MVVM Light's author wrote an article in the latest MSDN Magazine: Using the MVVM Pattern in Windows 8
Hmm, I don't have any code myself but have a look at Shawn Wildermuth's blog, he has done an example app http://wildermuth.com/
It's Silverlight and also uses RIA services, but hte basics should be on target.
John Papa occassional has sone stuff up as well http://johnpapa.net.
I have written a Coding Dojo for Silverlight - Blend and MVVMLight.
http://www.alphablog.org/2011/08/07/coding-dojo-silverlight/
Take a look and see if it fits to your needs.
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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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Is there any one website which contains many good C# screencasts?
C# Training videos
So can anyone recommend a set of videos for learning C# preferably free ( in my experience the nonfree videos seem to lean moe towards shlock ),
I understand that some universities are now using C# as their "101" language.
Does any such university have videos in an open coursework series?
PS: I am particularly interested in university courses. These are the ones most likely to have a long term ( 3-4 months ) structured approach aka a syllabus.
I think Plural Sight has the best courses. they have a Free C# intro.
http://www.pluralsight.com/main/olt/Course.aspx?n=dotnet-csharp-tutorial
They aren't free, but every video I've seen from LearnVisualStudio.Net has been pretty good. I got a 'lifetime' membership for $90 and it's been well worth it.
Learn C# on YouTube: 89 C# tutorials collection. Mainly examples of how to do something with C#. Another big collection of 98 C# videos. It covers a lot of C# fundamentals.
I find AppDev good. There is a lot of free stuff there (although not all).
MSDN has a good amount of learning videos. Have a look here.
The videos usually target a specific subjects and have enough details for you to learn a lot from them.
Also, Microsoft makes videos for ASP.NET if you're looking to do web-based apps. Have a look here
Try Microsoft Learning Manager -
http://learning.microsoft.com/Manager/Catalog.aspx?view=free
You pay for most of the videos but there are some free introductory ones as well that are good.
Hope this helps...
these are videos by Learnvisualstudio.net provided freely by microsoft : link
C# soup to nuts webcasts by William J. Steele : link
http://polishwords.com.pl/video_tutorials.php?g=programowanie_w_visual_studio But unfortunately in Polish Language :)
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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