Are there any resources online which will walk me through the construction of an application built in C#?

Question

I hesitate to call myself a beginner, because I think I can do a bit more than the basics. However, I'm not quite where I'm falling down in my designs and the way I'm going about some of my coding.

What I'm looking for is a good (read: long, detailed) set of screencasts/blog entries/tutorials which start from "I've got this idea I want to build" and end at "Code Complete."

I don't have the requisite CS skills to do anything fancy (compilers take a while to build anyway >_<), but definitely something beyond "Hello, World!" I'm thinking somewhere in the range of a CRUD-like desktop app backed my some small database.

I found a similar question to this on this site, which led me to Rob Conery's ASP.Net MVC Storefront project, but this doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. His project went quite a bit over my head.

Are there any similar resources available, but at a more junior level? I'd like to focus on C# if possible, but I think any OO language (C#, VB.Net, Java) would do.

Thanks!

Answer 1

For ASP.Net, the www.asp.net site has quite a few tutorials.

Answer 2

During my early efforts at .NET, I used to find the tutorials at http://www.functionx.com profoundly helpful because they present concepts by building small applications or projects that mimic real-world scenarios. Sounds like exactly what you need.

They don't have tutorials on the latest language features (C# 3.5, for instance), but I think you can easily progress from beginner to intermediate level by walking through all the projects. The tutorials are directed at beginners so you should have no problem in comprehension.

Answer 3

When I started learning application development in C#, I came across this site http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/

I found 14 - 16 video tutorials. The first part deals with C# and Visual C# Express itself and the second part deals with developing a simple but complete app from scratch - including the designing phase, the development and testing - solid material.

Actually I found these videos in MSDN. But when I actually found out the source and visited that site, I found they even charged for some videos. I could get the C# videos for free (was legally available for free in MSDN), so I guess you should be able to get it too.