>>>I take my heat off to you for taking the time and learning .NET. I don't know if I ever will.
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>>I wanted to add a comment to this. What I've found is that every programmer learns best by different methods. Some do well in the class environment, some just by studying, some by watching videos or reading books, some by practice. What works for me seems to be a class environment (online or in person), and then practice. It all started to really click (being able to code without checking everything first) when I had to actually do something real. I had done a few sample apps to learn, but when I was assigned a research project to find the best means of accomplishing something, I had to DIG IN and DO IT to test each possibility. That was the best learning tool.
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>For me the best way to learn is to make a small project and just do it. My ideal project for Win Forms would be to have an application with an "empty" pull-down window and just one window/form that would allow to maintain a table (like Add/Edit/Delete). But I know that no matter how small it seems in this description, it will be a major learning curve to do in .NET Win Forms. I wish that some of the .NET gurus would set up an online training in a form of a work shop so that you can follow them and actually build a small application with them (similar to what I described here). In the past when I was taking some programming classes (I don't want to mention names so not to offend anybody here), the class was covering way too much material and at a too fast of a pace. This class was not very useful to me at the end.
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>Thank you for sharing your experience.


www.learnvisualstudio.net. It's cheap for what you get and was invaluable for me to learn certain aspects of .NET