Know someone wanting to learn web development?
Or someone wanting to see if they’d like Visual Studio or even ASP.NET? Here’s an easy way, and you can’t beat the price!
Check out Visual Web Developer Express, a free Visual Studio Web development environment for building and testing next generation standards-based Web applications and services.
Visual Web Developer Express offers
- A rich editor that allows you to work with HTML and CSS in source view, design view or both using split-view
- Powerful debugging support for ASP.NET, C#, VB as well as JavaScript
- Support for application frameworks like ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Silverlight and third party libraries like jQuery
- Built-in support for FTP-based Web deployment and database deployment
- Intellisense features such as syntax highlighting and auto-completion that help improve productivity
- Ability to test your Web applications instantly with the integrated Web server or IIS
Learning Videos
To take this even further, Microsoft has created 16 videos to get you started so you can build serious web applications. See the ASP.NET videos page, for the current list. Today, these include:
- #1 | Intro to Visual Web Developer 39 minutes, 27 seconds
- #2 | IntelliSense 14 minutes, 16 seconds
- #3 | Intro to Web Forms 23 minutes, 7 seconds
- #4 | Page Layout 8 minutes, 57 seconds
- #5 | Page Lifecycle Events 12 minutes, 11 seconds
- #6 | Intro to ASP.NET Controls 8 minutes, 44 seconds
- #7 | Submit and Postback 19 minutes, 24 seconds
- #8 | Application Level Objects 13 minutes, 32 seconds
- #9 | Session Level Objects 10 minutes, 2 seconds
- #10 | Debugging 37 minutes, 19 seconds
- #11 | CSS 24 minutes, 32 seconds
- #12 | MasterPages 16 minutes, 2 seconds
- #13 | An Introduction to SOAP Based Web Services with Visual Web Developer 2008 26 minutes, 13 seconds
- #14 | AJAX Style Services with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 16 minutes, 38 seconds
- #15 | Validation 16 minutes, 45 seconds
- #16 | Login Controls 10 minutes, 28 seconds