I was wondering if anyone has any tips on transitioning from PHP to asp.net c#? I’ve been developing in PHP for 7 years and I’m interested in learning asp.net. However, I’ve been disappointed with the books that I’ve read so far. Seems like every asp.net book has so many examples of clicking here and dragging here and right click on this, etc… that I seem to get lost. Learning the C# language isn’t bad…I think I’m getting lost in either the IDE or the .NET framework. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I suggest you look at asp.net/mvc, not webforms – it will be a more natural migration.
The good resource is the official site: http://asp.net/mvc – it has tutorials, videos and more.
The .NET base class library (BCL) is very large. It is what you will interact with most of the time (outside of your own code). The only advice I can give – look things up on MSDN. It has very good documentation and it is worth taking your time reading through it.
For Visual Studio – the VS tips and tricks blog is a really good resource to learn about it.