A few months ago, I signed on to an ongoing tutorial series called ASP.NET from Scratch at NETTUTS. It is a series that starts at the absolute beginning – providing background information on ASP.NET (and .NET), acquiring Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server Express, and building a simple, one-page application that uses the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient classes to send an email containing information the user supplied in a form. It wasn’t exactly the “Hello, World” application I first envisioned, but I wanted something with a bit more meat than just slapping a label or literal control, changing its text, and calling it a day.

Anyhow, the first lesson is now published and available at NETTUTS. I’m currently working on the second lesson, which finishes the app from Lesson 1 and provides more information about the C# language. This second lesson should come much quicker than the first. Over the course of writing and producing this first lesson, I learned that writing text to be read is very different than writing text that is supposed to be spoken.

Please feel free to either leave a comment at NETTUTs or contact me if you have any questions, requests, etc. Please be gentle... this is my first screencast!

A special thanks to Jeffrey Way, editor of NETTUTS, for giving me this opportunity.