Jumping on board with ASP.NET ...

[southbeach]

Hello all!

I have never a line of code in ASP.NET nor any .NET based development or scripting language(s) ... While a programmer for many years, I have spent my career between a limited development environment.

I now find myself trying to start looking a .NET and write applications I have written before but this time, in .NET.

Where does one go? Where does one start? What do I need?

Thank you all in advance for your suggestions!




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[jbenson001]

You can use Notepad or any editor to write .NET applications, however, this will be difficult to learn because you will not have intellisense, be able to debug etc.
I would suggest using Visual Studio.
You need a web server ( I suggest Microsoft IIS )
Depending on where you are coming from, the learning curve could be steep. Also, if you are going to do web development and never have, the learning curve is even greater.
I would get a book on beginning ASP.NET. Most books will teach you how to set up VisualStudio and IIS and how to get started, as well as the language of course.

Then you can post any questions here as you go along. Also, remember, Google is your friend. Most questions can be answered by doing a simple web search.