Making Web Apps for Dining with Nerds

Flying the flag for Engerland. I especially like the balcony the top right hand corner with the Scotland flag. I think they’ll be rooting for Slovenia tomorrow….

If you are a student with nothing better to do because you have finished your term then this is the perfect time to pick up some new skills. One such skill (posh prose don’t you think) is writing web applications. You can get a great start (including 196 pages of well worked example text about building a Nerd Diner system) here:

http://www.microsoft.com/web/jumpstart/develop.aspx

At the moment the focus is on VS 2008, but I’m sure the content will be updated in due course, and all the fundamentals are the same. In fact the microsoft.com/web stuff is very interesting, particularly if you are wanting to host things like WordPress on your Windows system.

Comments

[Dave Downs]

Jon Galloway actually did a different tutorial for VS2010 & MVC2 - the MVC Music Store.

It's available on CodePlex: http://mvcmusicstore.codeplex.com/

[Rob]

That looks very interesting, thanks for the link.

[Will Oakley]

There should be the MVC v2 version of Professional ASP.NET MVC being released early July ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-ASP-NET-MVC-2-0-Galloway/dp/0470643188/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274523708&sr=8-1 ). It seems to be far better than plain ASP.NET once you get your head round it