I have finaly started to get my dotNet tutorials on line. I want to start compiling all the tid bits that show up here and on other sites as well into a set of reference pages as well for those of you who said you don’t mind me posting your code and giving you credit of course.
I’m also looking for other good dotNet references and sites, what do you use the most? I have MSDN linked to already but it would be good to have other sites that have good explanations of how to do things be it in Max script or other languages.
Thanks.
Of course bobo’s page but you know that so I guess you have it all ready… Past days I’ve been googeling a lot and came across http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/ quite a lot. It has a nice load of tutorials/(example) scripts etc not for max but it did help me in some occasions.
Semi offtopic:
In the same line of this, is there somewhere where you can download the documentation MSDN doesnt provide a downloadable version for as far as I’ve seen and Google didn’t return anything usefull either.
And since were not all blessed by the www gods it would be very usefull for atleast me at home…
http://www.planetsourcecode.com and http://www.vb-helper.com/ are good resources also.
if you download VS express edition you have an option of installing an offline help version.
Nice one Paul,
Really looking forward to seeing what you have rustled up. I am finding it really hard to break into DOT Net and examples and tutorials I know will help no end!
Much appreciated.
I have collected bit of example codes from posts on this forum. Work by Ofer Zelichover (mysql reader), and a great ListView with Scrollable Drag N’Drop, but I cannot see in the file anyone to credit (was an awesome example though). If they shout up then I can send them your way if you need them.
thanks again for the efforts,
Rich
I feel like we need a wiki.
http://tech-artists.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
I made a thread when it launched but you must have missed it
Paul: I’d love if we could work together on this some how… I’ve added some DotNet stuff to the Wiki as well. As we spoke about in PM’s, I understand the desire to have it on your site, but I’d like if we could coordinate/assist/share the endeavour somehow, so we aren’t working towards the same thing in parallel.
decapitator: I think you have the option to install the MSDN when you install Visual Studio (express version I know works).
Sounds good Rob, what are you thinking?
Well let’s leverage what what we have to best implement what we want to do. For tutorials you may write, I’ve no qualms or reservations about doing them on your site (same is true for anyone, I only encourage Wiki tutorials because I find them easier to write and maintain/edit/update).
For collecting info, I have to recommend the Wiki format. Even though the vast majority of the work will usually be done by a single/handful of people, what happens in those stints where the main drivers are away, or don’t intend to update their resource? There is no real way to continue what was a good and up-to-date resource, which means someone else either needs to start from scratch, or more often, no one replaces it with an alternative, so the evolution of whatever that resource was targeted for a stunted.
And, obviously, even though it is often not the case, the Wiki does at least allow multiple people to contribute (Bobo has only a few edits on the Wiki, but has caught already a handful of errors and oversights, for example). A web page makes this more difficult to the extreme, while on a Wiki, the iterative and evolutionary mentality is built right in, it is fundamental.
I’ve set up a couple of these portal pages on the Wiki ( http://tech-artists.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Portal , I had planned on one for MXS and Dotnet but just took it down because I didn’t have enough info for its own portal), and I think taking that approach for resource organization would be ideal. Secondly, I think it’d also be nice to put stuff like reasonably important code demonstrations onto their own wiki pages, so they can be edited, improved, modified, etc., by the authors and those people that find them useful (such as the drag and drop listview code alluded to above), and then integrate these with the portal pages.
What do you think about that?
We do have a wiki at cgs that was meant for this:
http://wiki.cgsociety.org/
We even have a page set up (albeit sparse) specifically for that purpose:
http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/MAXScript_and_.NET
Personally, I love the tech-artist.org wiki, but while we’re discussing this on a CGS thread, we need to promote the CGS wiki. I have to do my job here.
Eh…
http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500&days=30
Personally I feel putting it on the CGS Wiki would be the worst of both worlds, no offense to CGS. I think it is fair to play to strengths- we don’t host a MXS/MEL forum at TAO, we link back to CGS, because its forums for that are very strong. It’d be a folly to try take the CGS Wiki, which is pretty neglected, and do anything important on it, when there are better, more suitable and focused, alternatives.
I certainly agree with you on that point.
My only problem with this is I want trafic on my site, quite frankly I have an ulterior motive in that I’m not just writting tutorials to just make others better but to get people to know what I do and that they can hire me to do the work. Strange way to go about it I know but it has worked for me for years now and kept us very busy at PEN. If what I write is at another site they are not seeing the rest of my site along the way. I love the idea of a wiki, it is a far suporior way of doing it but it doesn’t help my cause a whole lot, which is to feed my family. I do also do it to keep the Max community strong so that new up and commers see that Max is a very powerful package and learn how to use it as that keeps one of the packages that keeps me making money alive and well. Hey, if I didn’t have to make money I would be wind surfing or mountain biking, not staring at a computer all day.
If you want to setup links to my pages that would be great.
Dude, the amount of cool free stuff you keep giving us (I just went though the treeview tute – THANK YOU!) I have no issue at all plugging you as much as humanly possible. People like you are what makes the tech community thrive.
More to the point, as you say, it promotes you as the “go to” guy for stuff like this. Most people who ask for rigging help in max get your name first and foremost, sort of like how Bobo is synonymous with Maxscripting.