VNT CD The Vulcan.NET Training CD

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The Vulcan.NET Training CD

If you're using Vulcan.NET, this CD is made for you. No matter if you're an absolute beginner with Vulcan.NET or still struggling with all the new stuff in .NET.
Originally, i.e. back in 2006, this CD started as companion CD for standard Vulcan training courses or in-house training. If you can talk to your students the CD does not need to have as self-explaining as possible and as polished as it is now. You can also adjust your pace to the skills of your audience. These were major points in my decision not to sell the CD, although there have been quite some requests. So the decision to sell it meant a lot of additional work. And finally it will be completed. The release date of the 1st public edition is March 8th, 2010 (shipping date!). As you may expect it has all been done in German. So you'll get a German Edition only, in the first place. But if you're not able to read German and you're patient enough, here's good news for you. The translation of the 300 pages documentation in narrow print is in progress now. The designated release date of the 1st English Edition is May 19th, the day before DevShare 2010 starts. Changes to official release dates will be published on the home page here.

VNT CD Contents

The following items listed are included with VNT CD:

• Code, Code, Code

You'll find a lot of code to get you started on this training CD. A detailed list can be here.
• VNT Documentation, aka "VNT Book"

This 'Book' is delivered as printable and searchable PDF. It has approx. 300 pages in version 1.0 in narrow print. A detailed description can be found here.
• Free software or demo versions

You'll find a section on VNT CD including a lot of useful utilities or demo versions of such. Feel free to test them. The 'Book' includes descriptions of some.

The code

For most people buying the CD the code samples are the most important thing. They normally don't read anything except how to get to the code. They expect they'll compile and start after double-clicking the solution file and everything they want to know is in the code. If you're in this class you must be very disappointed with most of the code provided with the .NET Framework SDK. Many third party developers of Visual Objects add-ons and other libraries put a lot of effort in building examples as self-explainatory as possible. For some examples on VNT CD this may also be true for the majority among you. But as the origin of the CD was a companion CD for training courses this may not be true for all code examples. So please follow my advice and do read the VNT docs. I'm not only confident this will help you better understand the code, I'm sure it will give you a lot of extra information.
A Vision of Code Samples

The Documentation

First off, almost all code examples are explained in depth in VNT docs. It's by far not just a nice reprint of them. Use the docs as a searchable knowledgebase if you use the PDF version. I for one prefer the printed version. It has a good index to search and includes a lot of cross references.
Some sections may give the impression that they're just a Vulcan remake of some code provided on MSDN, at first glance. But rest assured all of them still do go some steps beyond. And if not, you still have the Vulcan version, and sometimes the conversion may require some fiddling, at least if you're new to code transforming.
The tips and tricks sections included with almost all chapters are based on hours of frustrating debugging sessions and internet research. Sooner or later you'll just gonna love them.
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