Can anyone recommend any good learning resources for an experienced PHP web developer wanting to move to ASP.NET?

Question

I'm an experienced PHP web developer and am wanting to learn ASP.NET so that I can consider going for ASP.NET jobs.

I've looked at a few introduction to ASP.NET books but I always find that they start far to simple and cover the basics of HTML and general web development. I'm looking for learning resources that will help me make that transition as an experienced web developer.

Can anyone recommend any?

Answer 1

This Wrox book is great as it includes VB and C# if you are not sure which you want to use.

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-ASP-NET-3-5-VB-Programmer/dp/047018759X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269259493&sr=8-1

If you want to get into MVC, just use the NerdDinner tutorial available for free at

http://nerddinnerbook.s3.amazonaws.com/Intro.htm

A great tutorial, but it's in MVC 1.0. MVC 2.0 just came out so you won't get the latest, but you will get a very good understanding of MVC in ASP.NET

Answer 2

There are many points you can start from. I think a good one could be this: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/asp-net/asp-net-for-php-developers/

followed by this: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/asp-net/asp-net-from-scratch-lesson-1/

You can also check the others tutorials: http://net.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/asp-net/

Once you have gained a bit of confidence with the tools and the language basics (you also have to choose which language to learn, and I would personally advice you to choose C#, because from that one you can "jump" to almost any other mainstream OO language), you can go deeper into the language, because most of the job is done out of the asp page itself.

Answer 3

There are plenty of on the web. But I suggest to search mostly MSDN knowledge based articles, because they are very much consistent and almost without errors. Also I will advise to spend few bucks for the book, which is latest. I generally prefer the APRESS one. Start with small project (like beer project written in c#, and available in the codeplex), and learn to reverse engineer. My experience is, if you go random on the web and reading blogs, tips and trick, writing small programs, It would be difficult to move into .NET, in terms of job.

Answer 4

The ASP.Net site has a lot of great and targeted video tutorials for both MVC and WebForms.

Answer 5

I always go to Microsoft MSDN resources for Microsoft related technologies and have always been statisfied.

1. ASP.NET
2. MSDN LIBRARY ASP.NET