C# and Learning

Well, I am taking a class from Cabrillo's online system and I have to say the Intermediate C# class is AWESOME! It's practical and useful.  We've learned a load about just working in Visual Studio 2008's IDE (am using Express edition which is free) and we'll end the course with working with connecting to databases through Visual Studio!  Tre-awesome! 

So as I am doing this, I am learning how to interact with our databases here at work.  That's been a lot of interesting stuff as well.  I am now in the process of bringing these 2 things together and creating an app in Visual Studio 2008 that connects to the databases here at work!  It's something that's trivial - but very useful for me and a few other people around.  As a result, I needed to share this link that I found.  It's been great for understanding the top down situation of using databases in Visual Studio 2008.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171886%28VS.90%29.aspx

If you want a print version of these pages, in the upper right corner there is a link called "Preferences" which has 3 radio buttons.  Choose Classic and click OK. The UI will change in the browser page which will make it such that on the left hand side now is a link called Printer Friendly page.  Click Printer friendly and wham! you can make your own PDF's if have a PDF maker installed.  Need a PDF maker that's free?  Try Primo PDF. I use it for everything from bills with confirm #'s to receipts for things I have purchased that have a serial # on them to printing out documentation. Saves paper, saves santity and me!  Just click the Download free thing.  It's all you need.