The material on this page is intended to help make life easier for you. I have included some great downloads, step-by-step instructional videos, and PowerPoint presentations to help you succeed. I hope this helps. Good luck!

WPF & Silverlight

Source Code - Final - Get the code and instruction on how to create your own application, using WPF and Silverlight. With my Snippet tool, copying the code is as easy as Launching a selected item and pasting it straight into your code.  See the final product here.

Source Code - Work in Progress - See the code snippets broken up individually in their own files. The end product will look exactly like the "Source Code - Final" end product because the code is the same; it's just broken up differently.

WPF Silverlight PowerPoint - View my PowerPoint slides I use to teach WPF and Silverlight.

Useful Downloads

Visual Studio Versions - This Word document compares the 2008 Visual Studio products, as well as details the features, tools, extensibility, environment options, and more for each version.

Hands On Labs (MS Word) - The first lab provides an introduction to the new Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) features in Visual Studio 2008 while building an Outlook add-in to manage refill-request in a physician’s office.

The purpose of the second lab is to illustrate how WF workflows can interoperate with WCF services using Visual Studio 2008. As you progress through this lab, you will also have an opportunity to examine new language features in Visual Basic and productivity features in Visual Studio 2008.

Videos

Vista Tips & Tricks - Vista offers an impressive host of new features that are exciting to both the business user, the home user, and the hobbyist. Through my step-by-step videos, learn how to secure your . laptop, how to edit and make movies with digital camcorders, how to make Vista faster, how to evaluate performance, searching and indexing, helpful time savers, and more.

Advanced Web Programming - A series of step-by-step videos, demonstrating what you can do to make your programming more effective.

Programming Outlook - Outlook Add-In development is brilliantly simple with the right tools. Learn how to create a interactive user interface with the “Ribbon,” how to search for information in other data stores right from within the comfort of an Outlook email message, how to embed extremely graphical user interfaces extensions to an email message, how to integrate highly graphical Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) forms in your menus added to any Office application, and how to create WCF Services that integrate with stored procedures in SQL Server.

Workflow Programming - An introduciton to Workflow, which also provides a step-by-step methodology and easy to-use wizards that allow even non-technical people to build and deploy approval and collaboration workflows.

Databases

Northwind Database - Download the famous Northwind database usde in many hands on labs. The Northwind Traders sample database contains the sales data for a fictitious company called Northwind Traders, which imports and exports specialty foods from around the world.

For more useful instructionals and information, see my blogs.