Soup to Nuts: Building Windows Forms Applications with .NET

David F. Anthony is my new favorite Microsoft presenter. His great respect for others "comes through" in the videos. He does a great job at answering "good questions." I was very sad to find that videos 6-13 for this series can no longer be found. I talked to and e-mailed Microsoft about the missing episodes, but they do not seem to be able to recover them. I am listing a four other videos I found on MSDN by David Anthony to try to make up for that shortcoming.

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May I Also Recommend for Further Study? Bob Tabor also has two excellent video series on Windows Forms that consist of 37 videos in all. Check them out in the video library section of LearnVisualStudio.

1. Introduction and Essential Concepts

Key Concepts:

A. Background and general concepts behind Windows software development with .NET.
B. .NET Framework
C. Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

10-4-2006 84 minutes

2. Creating Top-Notch User Experiences with Windows Forms in Visual Studio .NET

Key Concepts:

A. General GUI concepts
B. Visual Studio forms designer.

10-3-2006 97 minutes

3. Rapid Application Development with Visual Studio .NET

Key Concepts:

A. Rapid Application Development (RAD)
B. How concepts of RAD are applied with .NET and Windows® Forms to achieve faster time-to-market.
C. Designers
D. Code generation options
E. Wizards

10-3-2006 90 minutes

4. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle —Object-Oriented Concepts in Microsoft .NET Winforms Applications

Key Concepts:

A. Object-oriented concepts
B. Reuse
C. Encapsulation
D. Polymorphism
E. Inheritance

10-3-2006 90 minutes

5. What Every Developer Should Know About the .NET Framework, but May Have Missed Along the Way

Key Concepts:

A. An immersive tour of the .NET Framework and its powerful capabilities.

10-3-2006 90 minutes

6. - 13. Unfortunately, these episodes can not be found on microsoft's web site.

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14. Complex Problems, Elegant Solutions—Scenarios for the Advanced .NET Programmer

Key Concepts:

A. Tools within Visual Studio® .NET as well as a few stand-alone utilities
B. Design patterns

10-3-2006 60 minutes

Misc 1. Dave's Top Ten Programming Tips And Tricks

Key Concepts:

Here's Dave's top ten desktop application User Interface tips and tricks
10) Remove references to Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace
9) Use the Application object; AppDomain object; and Assembly object to get runtime info
8. Write your own attributes - implement Declarative programming
7) Arrays - use ListBox.AddRange() to improve performance
6) Use a progress bar to indicate progress of long processes
5) Use ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem() to asynchronously initiate long processing.
4) Use IsolatedStorage and serialization to store user preferences
3) Use splitters, docking, and anchoring to achieve a professional UI
2) Add a global exception handler to your Desktop app via Application.Thread Exception
1) Roll your own custom configuration section with IConfigurationSectionHandler

June 04, 2004 90 minutes

Misc 2. MSDN Architecture Webcast: Dave’s Tour of .NET Middle-tier Options

Key Concepts:

A. Different options for implementing a middle tier with Microsoft® .NET including remoting, COM+, and Web Services. We’ll compare and contrast the pros and cons of each and discuss under which circumstances you might consider each option.

July 30, 2004 90 minutes

Misc 3. MSDN Webcast: Dave’s Pluggable Data Access Layer with Interfaces and the Factory Pattern

Key Concepts:

A. Pluggable data access layer based on interfaces that can be swapped out in the future if the data layer changes.

June 30, 2004 90 minutes

Misc 4. MSDN Webcast: Dave's Top Ten Ways To Secure Your Desktop App

Key Concepts:

You will see ten practical best practices for securing your .NET desktop application.
10) Store non-volatile user-specific data in isolated storage
9) Use Integrated Security and Role Based Authorization through Windows Groups
8. Use COM+ Role-based security as a middle-tier solution
7) Assign strong-names to your re-usable assemblies
6) Use Link Demands and strong names to secure what code calls your assembly
5) Use Remoting as your middle tier via HTTP Channel, IIS and SSL
4) Run your code from a restricted code group especially when using LoadFrom()
3) Create an AppDomain to achieve a security boundary within your application
2) Use Impersonation to allow code to run under an account that can access specified resources
1) Use the Framework - DON'T REINVENT THE WHEEL!