Re: Any Good Training?

Mike,

What are you looking to learn about .NET? It's a huge area to cover. If
you can pin down your interests some we can be more specific, ASP.Net,
C#, VB.Net, WinForms, WorkFlow, WCF, Silverlight, etc. but...

Podcasts: DotNetRocks.com, Hanselminutes.com
Blogs: ScottGu's, Scott Hanselman's, almost anything on blogs.msdn.com
Sites: CodeProject, code.msdn.microsoft.com, CodingHorror (not directly
.net, but very useful)
Local book store...

To me the big thing is not to think of the i as being anything special.
It's just a database server. Sure it can do more, but don't confuse the
issue. Get your head around accessing it as a db server and you'll be
90% of the way there.

As for IBM's offerings, IBM is a big place and I'm sure there are some
very interesting offering in there, but I've not see anything so far
that would make me want to look to IBM as my source for .Net education.
Also, keep in mind, and this goes for anyone's code samples, not just
IBMs, that a code sample is designed to show you how to use a specific
object or concept, and the surrounding code is usually total crap and
not what you'd use in real life.

For example, when I show people how to access IBM i data from .Net I'll
show a command-line app w/direct calls to the iDB2Connection and
iDbDataReader objects, but I'd never let code like that into production,
data access should be totally abstracted away from UI. (Except when it
makes sense to break that rule. :-)

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:08 PM
To: .net use with the System i
Subject: [SystemiDotNet] Any Good Training?

Boy this list get quiet quick! Here is a good question, is there any
training that you would recommend for someone looking at doing more with
.NET? Does IBM have any good trainings?