I recently got this from an ASP.NET Developer !
Hey Joe:
I am working through your Ajax SlideShow video and just wanted to let you know these videos are great! Thanks for making them! I try to learn from books and tutorials as much as possible, and I find a lot of books frustrating because they show “snippets” as opposed to building an example step-by-step. Your videos are excellent at that!
Not only did this make my week, (It’s great when you get to HEAR that your work is helpful and has value) but it highlighted for me what I’ve been thinking for years. People prefer learn different things in ways.
Now that Simon is back from his amazing sabbatical, and I;ve hadled back the day-to-day operation of the ASP.NET and WindowsClient.net properties, I’m excited to get back to generating content.
So, GUIDE ME ! Email me and tell me how you like to learn and what topics would would find most valuable.
Hey joe,Yeah! the videos are really helpful for beginners like me. There are many videos for ASP.NET but not for windows forms. There are many technologies in windows forms like CAB (Composite Application Block). If you make videos for CAB it will be really helpful.Thank You,Aravind.
Hi Joe,I am more inclined to think it is because of the videos are having a better focus. I never used to like videos for getting this type of info, until I watched a series with the same approach you mentioned.
Joe: I started out web programming using FrontPage, and then worked my way through Matrix with asp.net, and to VSW, and the primary learning tool for me has been the video series, and I use it quite often for quick reference guide after viewing.The are invaluable, THANKS!
I agree completely, I’m more of a "Show me" person. I love your videos. I’d say do some more detailed on the entity and the MVC framework videos.Also there’s a lot on the channel 9 too!
Hey there,I also have done the same thing: bought loads of books, read, re-read and, while some info is there, I generally get frustrated. In fairness to the authors, there is a massive amount of information to cover. What I really like about the videos is you can watch them and know "maybe I don’t need that now, but I will on my next project or phase".Some things I would like to see:1) OOP examples with best practices2) how to use those examples in real pages (create a class, reference the class and use it to make a page… sort of thing).3) maybe how to customize the controls or make the behave differently than just drag/drop.4) session explanation with examples When I discovered these videos it was all I could do to spread the word to my developer friends! They are great and we’ve learned tonnes from them. Please make more!Kiley
I absolutely agree.If someone would make similar videos targeted toward certification training, at a reasonable price that an individual developer can afford, I’d have every certification possible.Imagine if these videos could be combined with the style of the Head First books also.Someone could make a fortune with really good training videos.
Hi Joe, I think we will need "How-Do-I Video" on reporting services and reportviewer ,a very comprehensiveone,this is very important.Thanks.
I would like to add that your videos are great as well. I prefer shorter videos of about 15 minutes or so (it’s hard to commit to a 30 minute video sometimes). I love the videos that you have on the website and understand this is indeed asp.net, but it would be nice to see c# language and vb.net language videos as well. Some entity framework vids would be nice too, and more linq vids. Keep up the good work Joe, you’re a natural teacher.
Hi Joe, I am also agree with him. Your videos are really good. It helped me to learn AJAX especially Toolkit. Apart from that Videos relating to Dynamic Data are superb.Thanks Joe. Keep it on.Manjunath
Joe,I second that your videos are extremely helpful!You said:
One thing that I have found sadly missing from any "video" based instructional format on the internet is the practical application of useful design patterns as well as how to successfully architect a layered system. If you could create content like this, you would be definitely filling a huge whole out there.
Perhaps this is because I’m only a hobby developer, but I am bewildered by all the different technologies out there–I don’t understand what problems they are supposed to solve, and which ones are mutually exclusive.This includes sql to entity, MVC, dynamic data, silverlight and other technologies I’ve heard mentioned but don’t really understand.Seriously, how does it all fit together?
I think one of the video series thatis missing is "Crystal Report" with ASP.NET
Hi Joe, I have probably seen every video on the site and they have definately helped me. Most of the vids so far are to do with specific parts of a project, a particular control or feature of ASP.NET/AJAX/Sql Server. I think it would be nice if there were a series of videos where you worked up a complete app from concept to beta, putting together things highlighted in greater detail in other vids.Just an idea.
Yes I agree; I learn soo much from your videos and the case is when learning from videos you work with more than one Sense you’re watching and hearing at the time and I am always a reader for you blog and new articles and news add, and I wanted to know if you can do a video on security and I got a lot of requests on custom security “who can do and what he do”
Such as I can access the page but can’t edit or save or delete, but I don’t know what’s the best approach for that, I did it once using profiles, and once by creating a custom button control that reads from auth cookies to determine the user authenticationbut I don’t know if there is a better approach and more dynamic
Thanks Love watching the videos to Learn. SignedWaiting for the cool media extender interface.To the asp.net video library…
I completely agree. I’ve been using your videos to get up to speed on things quickly. Books are then good to add to the "platform of understanding" which I gain from your videos. So, thanks for the effort that you put in. I very much appreciate it.
Hi Joe, First off I would like to thank you for your every effort in providing videos on http://www.asp.net for developers like me who prefer videos to show us concepts that we find hard to grasp from reading book after book. I ride the train and make it a habit to read one technology book after another during my daily commute but there is still nothing like having some visual/video to show the many ideas discussed in these books, and so I would like to thank you and hope to see more videos from you.I do have some areas that I continue to have problems with and was wondering if you could look into providing us some videos on these subjects. These areas include a) Concurrency in ASP.NET b) Asynchronous processing in ASP.NET, benefits and shortcomings –RegisterAsyncTaskc) Events and Delegates in ASP.NET d) How to create Ajax Controls e) Ajax best PracticesI have read so many articles on the above subjects but have yet to sufficiently grasp either. But I am confident that you can explain these better to people like me through your videos. More grease to your elbow!!Dollarjunkie
Yes indeed, you videos are fantastic keep up the good work.
Joe,What do you mean by "People prefer learn different things in ways."?I think I know what you WANTED to say, but I’d thought I’d check.GS
I second that. My ability to learn from a video is superiour to my ability to learn from a book. And I have absolutely loved your and others videos on asp.net/learn…What I love most is that you, and other, is showing me some of the controls that is not as natural to use as others. By natural I mean for example the ability to use history in an ajax application vs. using the repeater control. The repeater control is pretty straight forward, while history in an ajax app is not so.
So thank you so much for doing your job extremely well thus teaching us less knowledgeable. 
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Do LINQ videos, with data layers and the whole works of best practice stuff. Do LINQ tutorials/articles as well.I spend a lot of time on the forums helping people out and I still have to point them towards the Data Access tutorials which focus on .net 2.0 technology (Strongly Typed Datasets). I want them to learn the good stuff!Also consider doing tutorials for intermediate developers, AzamSharp covers some really interesting topics on his website screencastaday.com. They are like advanced beginners tutorials lol – stuff for rhino mocks, tdd, architecture, etc.Also while I am jibbering on how about some tutorials to embrace the fact that jQuery is now an honorary member of the asp.net community?
It is really very efficient way to become educated and specially if the lecturer is clear just like Joe!Yair
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It would be even better if the videos were closed captioned. I am a hard of hearing person and unfortunately I ended up watchingsilent movies.
I can only agree, you video’s really are amazing. I haven’t had problems understanding any of them, and they sink in instantly.Keep up the good work
Cheers.
Yes quite true. I am for some reason good in doing proof-of-concept in architecture,database, web service integration etc ..but not so good in ASP.NET or Ajax stuff.i tried learning through ebooks and articles and always find my self going in circles, but your video just give me start and motivation to look into that area more pedantically.I think the idea of showing end-to-end development, but one feature at a time is quite good and I will prefer if you can move on into more bigger areas like web services, silverlight , Azure etc.RegardsTimB