What is a good learning path for a LAMP developer migrating to Visual Studio?

Question

I just learned that we have some upcoming .Net projects that are going to be developed using C# in Visual Studio. I have not coded Java since 2001 when I started working in PHP in your typical LAMP stack.

What resources can you recommend for a LAMP guy to get productive using .Net and Visual Studio?

Books, tutorials, links, etc. all welcome. Thanks.

EDIT

Just to be clear, I'm really interested MIGRATION guides and resources to becoming productive using the Visual Studio IDE.

Answer 1

Start with this question here on Stack Overflow: "I'm new to .NET - what should I concentrate on...?"

Tutorials on the Web:

• Microsoft offers lot's of them

Books:

• MacDonald and Szpuszta's "Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008" for a deep reference.
• Skeet's "C# in Depth" when you want to really understand C# (not for beginners)
• Teilhet and Hilyard's "C# Cookbook" (a bit old but still very good)
• Hunt and Thomas's "Pragmatic Unit Testing" (START with TDD - you'll be glad you did)
• Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 (I liked an earlier version)

Web Sites:

• Great overall site: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com
• C# Focus: http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/
• Microsoft's Site: http://www.asp.net
• Microsoft's AJAX Site: http://www.asp.net/ajax/
• Microsoft's C#-specific Site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/default.aspx
• Day-to-day Developments in the ASP.NET World: Scott Gu's Blog

I have some SQL Server database resources and HTML/CSS resources as well but you may either be using another database or you may have your HTML/CSS lined up from previous work. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You may want to look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3962/long-time-lamp-developer-moving-to-vb-net

Even though the questioner was going to VB.NET, the basic thoughts of moving from PHP to ASP.NET will still be helpful, I expect.