Sample ASP.NET application for absolute beginners

Question

One friend of mine is beginner programmer and he is trying to learn classic ASP.NET. I want to recommend him some small open source application to study. I don't want to confuse him with advanced topics or mislead him with wild approaches. What application should I recommend to him?

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Edit: I clearly failed to ask this question. I am not looking for beginner tutorial or set of examples. I am looking for real life application which helps him make better pictures how all samples he already look at works together.

Answer 1

You could show him the starting pages from MS:

http://www.asp.net/(S(il1c10q03wmehr454jhf3hmr))/get-started/

Answer 2

Why not hundreds of pages of tutorials and dozens of hours of video to help you learn ASP.NET for the beginner?

Answer 3

Here are some ASP .NET Open Source projects.

http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/388/aspnet-open-source-projects/

Answer 4

For the first time ASP.NET encounter: click here

Answer 5

This article takes you through the basics including creating a super simple app http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/aspnetintro.aspx

There are lots of started kits at http://www.asp.net/community/projects/ which are good as well.

Answer 6

Another good resource for complete beginners is:

Web Development For Beginners on MSDN

Followed by:

Web Development with ASP.NET on Microsoft Learning, part of the excellent My Ramp Up series.

Answer 7

I found the little examples from w3schools great when I started :)

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet%5Fexamples.asp