Sukumar Raju's Blog

Hi

I come across growing number of queries on ‘where are the learning resources for various technologies’ in ASP.NET forums.

One of the strategic learning life cycle is discussed at http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/asp-net/the-best-way-to-learn-asp-net/

I like to out line number of learning resources I am aware of here.

.Net Framework

All about Common Language runtime(CLR), Common Type system, Class Libraries, Assemblies, garbage collector and more.

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/default.aspx
• http://www.meshplex.org/wiki/C_Sharp_Tutorial
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663309.aspx
• Absolute beginners videos series:
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700732.aspx 

Visual C#

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/bb798022.aspx
• http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/LearnMore/csharp.asp
• http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnvisualcsharp.aspx?tab=overview

Internet Explorer 8

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/cc304683.aspx
• http://forums.asp.net/t/1256035.aspx

ASP.NET

Here you can find various resources from ASP.NET 2.0 to ASP.NET 4.0, MVC, ADO.NET, LINQ, Security, IIS and more web casts, video tutorials, articles and documentation.

• One stop shop http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/archive/2010/10/26/asp-net-developer-guidance-map.aspx
• http://www.asp.net/learn/
• http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/
• Walkthroughs
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb515247.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644563.aspx
• Deployment http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/Deploy-ASP.NET.aspx

GridView, DetailsView and FormView controls

• http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/10054.aspx

Data access

In this section you find all the resources from ADO.NET, ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, ADO.NET DataSet, LINQ to SQL

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/cc300162.aspx
• http://www.asp.net/learn/data-videos/
• http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/
• LINQ to SQL
• http://www.asp.net/learn/linq-videos/

Caching in asp.net

• http://quickstart.developerfusion.co.uk/QuickStart/aspnet/doc/caching/default.aspx
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323290

Security

All about Membership, Authentication, Authorization, configuring and configuring Membership schema in SQL Server and more.