If you are an ASP.NET developer and have either Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 and want to learn how to build web applications using AJAX, then this is the site for you. The Microsoft ASP.NET team has made available about 30 videos (ranging from 3 minutes to 30 minutes) that show to use most if not all of the ASP.NET AJAX controls. Here's a link to the full list of videos: ( Click here to view them ) Here's a sample of a few of them (see below): #1 | How Do I: Get Started with ASP.NET AJAX? 7 minutes, 51 seconds #2 | How Do I: Get Started with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit? 11 minutes, 15 seconds #3 | How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX CascadingDropDown Control Extender? 27 minutes, 56 seconds #4 | How Do I: Implement Dynamic...
Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe). I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA "issues" it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio 2005 in a variety of areas. I specifically like these news features: Multi-targeted frameworks Within VS2008, the IDE gives you a choice of working with the .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 framework Which means that I don't have to have Visual Studio 2005 (for backward compatibility) and Visual Studio 2008 installed to get the new features The ability to switch frameworks overtime, so that I can start with .NET 2.0, for example, and as my company/customer approves .NET 3.0/3.5, I can switch my project to...