Asp.net lectures

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A friend of mine is a classic ASP developer and she is very good at it. Her company has been rolling out .Net applications and she is battling. Online tuts are not helping and she would like to attend lectures for .Net and ASP.net.

I have suggested http://www.ctutraining.co.za/ and http://www.torque-it.com. Can you guys think of better alternatives?
 
I have attended a lot of those with torgue it, New Horizons, etc and to be honest, they were not worth it.
She should meet with or pay .net developer who'll go through from the beginning to the end. I'm sure you can help her.

Or she can go the old fashioned way a buy a textbook.
 
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tell her to try the lynda.com training videos, its well explained and easy to understand.
 
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Fuma said:
I have attended a lot of those with torgue it, New Horizons, etc and to be honest, they were not worth it.
She should meet with or pay .net developer who'll go through from the beginning to the end. I'm sure you can help her.

Or she can go the old fashioned way a buy a textbook.
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I only went to Torque-IT to write the certification exams, I find self learning exciting. I am unable to offer her tutorials in person, I am just swamped with projects and I am spending most my "free" time with my 6 week old son (lest he grows up to make a rap song about me not being there for him :p) and the wife.

mh348 said:
tell her to try the lynda.com training videos, its well explained and easy to understand.
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This might work, will forward the link.
Thanks
 
mezu said:
.... I am spending most my "free" time with my 6 week old son..
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Welcome to the end of your life and the beginning of someone else's life.
I have a six months old son and I don't have time to do anything else on weekends.
 
Fuma said:
Welcome to the end of your life and the beginning of someone else's life.
I have a six months old son and I don't have time to do anything else on weekends.
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Haha, if this is how life is supposed to end, then wow, I should have done this sooner :D It is hectic, I have not played Team Fortress in ages. I code a lot during the day and I make sure read as much as I can when he takes a nap and still find time for the missus. :D :D
 
Some how I think you are saying new lappy (6 week old son) and old pc (missus).
 
Fuma said:
Some how I think you are saying new lappy (6 week old son) and old pc (missus).
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LOL. Not quite. I am talking about the wife. My gaming rig and dev machine will have to get used to the status quo.
 
And I though I was a procastinator. :)

Programmers are always chasing their tail. I am in the same boat (.net as well as classic asp) and need to learn the latest stuff. I have all the training material but I am just too lazy and procrastinate.

Viewstate takes a lot to get use to if you have never used to and probably more so the full power of OO if you come from a classic asp environment.
If she is wanting to make the move now is a good time. The recent introduced MVC abd EF looks like the rapid change it has gone through looks like it reaching maturity.
 
twicode said:
And I though I was a procastinator. :)

Programmers are always chasing their tail. I am in the same boat (.net as well as classic asp) and need to learn the latest stuff. I have all the training material but I am just too lazy and procrastinate.

Viewstate takes a lot to get use to if you have never used to and probably more so the full power of OO if you come from a classic asp environment.
If she is wanting to make the move now is a good time. The recent introduced MVC abd EF looks like the rapid change it has gone through looks like it reaching maturity.
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Very true.
I started of with classic ASP, but never pushed my self that much. When .Net came out, I jumped onto it, got used to
viewstate and the event model. Most classic ASP coders battled with the new changes. 90% of my current projects are
MVC.The amount of new things coming from the ASP.net team is hectic. Its hard to keep track of
all the developments. Its keeping me on my toes.

My friend will have to stick to webforms for now. Her company, where I used to work, has a lot of webforms apps and sites, plus its a small team.
Internal projects (Intanet,Reporting tool) could be open to MVC implementation.
 
Mezzo you are lucky you can work on the new stuff.

I joined a company wanting to use MVC but I have to work on the existing .net that was written shoddy by other dev doing CRUD and business objects different in every project in the flavour of the day. They left and I joined having to expand and maintain these children's experiments 15 different systems with crap specs from the BAs. I just want to rewrite from scratch but there is no time.
 
One thing classic asp has over MVC razor is that you can preview it in any version of Visual Studio.

Razor you can't. :wtf:
 
zaozzie said:
Mezzo you are lucky you can work on the new stuff.

I joined a company wanting to use MVC but I have to work on the existing .net that was written shoddy by other dev doing CRUD and business objects different in every project in the flavour of the day. They left and I joined having to expand and maintain these children's experiments 15 different systems with crap specs from the BAs. I just want to rewrite from scratch but there is no time.
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I know what you mean. When I joined my last company, they were in the process of moving to .Net 2.0 from classic ASP. I kept my busy and in the mix with current trends by creating personal project using MVC. You are right about time. I think that most non technical managers will not push for new tech as long as the legacy systems still provide value IMO.
 
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