What is the PHP or C# Equivalent of Ruby's Depot Application?

Question

The book Agile Web Development with Rails has a great application that it takes the reader through to introduce them to the process of developing a real application with Ruby on Rails. Does PHP or C# have an equivalent? At the very least, can anyone think of a good practical exercise for learning PHP or C# "as you go" or through application.

Answer 1

My suggestions for practical C# exercises:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336766.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288436.aspx

Answer 2

My suggestion for a book to look through that has lots of examples of practical PHP projects (it is a free e-book). http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/details.php?ebook=1872

Answer 3

www.asp.net/learn

www.asp.net/mvc/learn